CHAPTER II. 



CIRCULATION OP WATER ON LAND THE WONDERFUL MESILLA. 



To Dr. J. H. Yincent, of Plainfield, N. J., the world is indebted 

 for a system of education reaching the hearthstones and homes of 

 thousands of families all over our goodly land. Chief of these, in 

 form of school or college, is the Chautauqua Literary and Scien- 

 tific Circle. The organ of this institution is The Chautauquan, pub- 

 lished at Meadville, Pennsylvania, Theodore L. Flood, D. D., 

 Editor. From the November number of 1883 we copy an article 

 in which, if carefully read and studied, will be found an amount 

 of information which cannot be overestimated in its value to 

 the farming class. Here can be learned the ways of the waters 

 as run by nature's laws, over, through and under the soil. "We 

 give this remarkable article in full, for were we to search the 

 literature of the soil to exhaustion, we could not find in so compre- 

 hensive and compact a form, a compend upon which to base the 

 text of this volume. 



However, before transcribing it, we are equally bound to accord 

 to Mr. Henry Stewart, civil and mining Engineer, member of 

 the Civil Engineers' Club of the North-west and associate Editor of 

 the American Agriculturist, the credit of having written, about two 

 years ago, a work on the subject of irrigation from which copious 



