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counties, Texas, in an interview recently published in a St. Louis paper, says: 



"The development in South Texas rice and sugar fields has been simply 

 marvelous. A short while ago it was all open prairie, with here and there 



BAILING RICE STRAW. 



bunches of cattle and horses, but now the country is a veritable dream of beau- 

 ty. The progress in agriculture has been wonderful. There are pumping sta- 

 tions that throw immence volumes of water into irrigation channels for the rice 



DITCHING MACHINE AT WORK. 



fields. The streams from these pumping plants look like rivers, so great is the 

 flow of water. 



