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...Criswell has been raising cotton on his 1,700-acre farm in Idalou, Texas, since 1955. Cotton is called the camel of crops because it requires little water, yet Criswell is now in trouble. His water table has dropped 100 ft. since he started farming. Nine years ago, he paid $4 an acre to water his cotton; today he pays more than $45. "It's like a disease," he says. "You just accept it and go on." Gerald Wiechman farms 6,000 acres and feeds 2,500 head of steer near Scott City in western Kansas. When his farm...
Conservation may forestall the end. Farmers can simply use less water. They are already converting from profitable but water-thirsty corn to water-thrifty crops such as wheat, sorghum and cotton. James Mitchell, a cotton farmer from Wolfforth, Texas, has installed an experimental center-pivot sprinkler that, instead of spraying outward, gently drops water directly into the planted furrows, thereby reducing evaporation. Sophisticated laser-guided land graders can now almost perfectly flatten the terrain so that water is not wasted in runoff. Electrodes planted in the fields can measure soil wetness and determine exactly when water is needed. Today, these...
After a while, though, the conversation, just like that pleasant buzz that inevitably turns into cotton mouth, couldn't help but come back to the present...
...morning, cotton mouth had replaced Buzz Jones, and I dimly remembered some parts of the last night's conversation. Picking up the New York Times, I mechanically found the sports page. The Mets had dropped a heart breaker to the Expos in the bottom of the ninth, 5-4. Something pulled desperately in my stomach, and I headed for an extended prayer session with the great porcelain...
...Cotton adds just a tinge of malice, however, to this otherwise innocent Clarisse. Although some of her constant gesturing seems forced, her carefree attitude is an effective counterpart to Ventroux's stuffiness. She is seemingly oblivious to the insanity of her logic. Criticized by her husband for "pawing" the thighs of a man while examining the material of his trousers, she explains. "Well, what did you expect me to do? I couldn't very well ask him to take his trousers off--a man I'd only just met." She is similarly naive about walking around in front of Hochepaix...