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two adjoining acres on an Illinois farm. 
The real difference was one to be deter¬ 
mined by the surveyor’s level, which 
showed that water could be put on the 
valuable tract and not on the other. 
This also is the difference between the 
Mexican “offset” in the North, lying 
between the Rio Grande and the rae- 
ridianal boundary to the west, and the 
American tract that juts into Mexico just 
west of this again. They both share the 
same soil as you gaze at them from the 
deck of your “ burro,” and you can even 
see no difference in them on closer in¬ 
spection, after your mule has assisted 
you to alight; but there is a real and 
tangible value difference of from one 
hundred to two hundred dollars a year 
per acre between the grapes and other 
fruits and vegetables you can raise on 
