Excerpt from Cotton Irrigation in the Southwest The acreage of irrigated cotton in the United States has increased rapidly during recent years, and it is now irrigated in many areas where it was unthought of 30 years ago. In 1953 the United States irri gated a total of acres of cotton. Texas alone irrigated about acres of cotton in 1948, acres in 1953, and acres in 1955. Cotton is adapted to a wide range of soil conditions and produces well on both fine and coarse-textured soils. It is relatively tolerant to saline soil conditions that com mouly occur on irrigated lands in the Southwest. Cotton is generally considered a warm climate crop and needs at least 190 rather warm, frost-free days to produce a high yield. However, good production has been attained under a variety of conditions rang ing in elevation from below sea level in the Imperial Valley of California to feet in Arizona, and in climate from the arid regions of the Southwest to the subhumid areas of the Southeast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.