Now, how are these indispensable "meteorological conditions" to be obtained? The progress and developments made on both sides of the Atlantic during the past and present century, in the science of Forestry in connection with Meteorology, have shown that there is but one very plain and easy way, and that is by covering one-fourth to one-third of the Plains' surface with forests. Every section of 640 acres on the Plains and Prairies of Texas should have upon it from 150 to 200 acres of well-timbered woodland. Procure the seed or scions of the right kinds of growths, suited to the soil and climate, such as Catalpa speciosa (the most durable of all known growths and best suited for railroad cross-ties), China Aster, Hickory, Maple, Black Locust, Walnut, Chestnut; White, Post, and Live Oak; Ash, Bois d'Arc, etc., etc., and respectable forests could be grown in 30 years or less time; and enough of the same from the necessary thinning out, beginning the fourth or fifth year, could be sold in the meantime to pay all expenses. Experience in Germany and other parts of Europe proves this, and it proves, too, that by or before the end of 30 years the desired "meteorological conditions" may become such all over the Plains and Prairie country and adjacent regions, that destructive summer drouths and devastating freshets would be reduced to the minimum; countless perennial fountains would bubble up from the generous bosom of Mother Earth, and all of these streams great and small would run reasonably full the year round; and much of the Texas prairie country, the "black hog-wallow lands," for example, already productive enough, even under present drouthy " conditions, to make them equal the best lands in Eastern States, would, with the increased and equalized rainfall sure to follow foresting and reforesting, become unsurpassed in fertility.

Of course, farmers on the Plains or Prairies of the West, or those having lands there that they may wish to colonize, ought to begin by boring Artesian wells for immediate purposes. These would also assist materially in bringing about the desired change in meteorological