Chapter 14

NATURAL RESOURCES, AGRICULTURE, GENERAL CONDITIONS . . . . . . . . 282

Principal cultivated products--Timber--The three climatic zones-- General agricultural conditions--Waste of forests--Irrigation--Region of the river Nazas--Canal-making--Cotton and sugar-cane--Profitable agriculture--Mexican country-houses--Fruit gardens--Food products, cereals, and fibrous plants--_Pulque_ production--India-rubber and _guayule_--List of agricultural products and values--Fruit culture and values--Forestry and land--Colonisation--American land-sharks-- Conditions of labour--Asiatics--Geographical distribution of products-- The States of the Pacific slope--Sonora--Lower California--Sinaloa-- Tepic--Jalisco--Colima--Michoacan--Guerrero--Oaxaca--Chiapas.