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Show NEW IRRIGATION SCHEME TRIED OUT IN MEXICO SAN PEDRO, Coahulla, Mex . Sept.t 1 The Madero family. Of which for-; nier President Madero was a member., next year will plant 35.000 additional acres to cotton 111 the Iaguna district' under a scheme of irrigation untried in nn part of the world on a large scale, except along the river Nile In : Egypt. The B6.000 acres are divided Into, plots around which dyke.i to th" height ; of five or six feet are built, reatlng a basin for storing water 111 this section sec-tion theie arc no irrigation projects ' for Storing water for use as needed. and a new scheme had to be devised as the rains came at the wrong eea-' ton. Cinder the Madero plan the landa win i"e flooded wuh water, to the depth "f thr e or four feci from il.lt ties ti-es leading to the rfver While there Is water. The water will wliuWco o. remain at this depth until plowing 1 time, when the dyl-es will be opened. The plan 1.5 expected ;o store enough , water In the SUbSOtJ to irrigate the : cotton while growing. Sill carried in the water us -d to flood the lands Is expected to be vt ry rich fertllisi The Laguna dlstrlcl is an old lake bed. W'ells hftVe ben drilled in several sev-eral places to the depth of more than , 2,000 feet without striking rock or hardpan, Soil like the top was en-' en-' countered for the entire depth. The Maderos are reputed to own more than 2,000,000 acres of land ' one-fifth the state of Coahulla be-1 be-1 longs to the family |