. Statistics and information concerning the state of Missouri and its cheap farming lands, the grazing and dairy region, the mineral and timber resources, the unsurpassed fruit lands, and limitless opportunities for labor and capital. urnished bytlie same quarry. Porphyry of a quality useful for building purposes, exists in largemasses in Iron, Madison, St, Francois and Wayne counties. CLIMATE. That the spring comes earlier and the fall ends later, in SoutheastMissouri than in States further North, goes without saying ; but the differ-ences do not end there. The winters are always mild, the ex
. Statistics and information concerning the state of Missouri and its cheap farming lands, the grazing and dairy region, the mineral and timber resources, the unsurpassed fruit lands, and limitless opportunities for labor and capital. urnished bytlie same quarry. Porphyry of a quality useful for building purposes, exists in largemasses in Iron, Madison, St, Francois and Wayne counties. CLIMATE. That the spring comes earlier and the fall ends later, in SoutheastMissouri than in States further North, goes without saying ; but the differ-ences do not end there. The winters are always mild, the extreme coldbeing generally about zero (Fahrenheit) and the cold weather with snowand ice lasting less than two months. In occasional winters the tempera-ture has fallen below this, but these are rare. Winter usually beginsabout the 15th of December, with more rain than snow throughoutthe season. The coldest weather is generally in January. In Feb- 88 MISSOURI. ruary, until the 15th, there are cold days. In the latter part ofFebruary ther& are more wann, spring days than wintry March, early potatoes are often planted by the 10th and most of themonth is available to the farmers to get the ground ready for MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. MISSOURI RIVER, AT BOONVILLB. The best farmers plant corn in April and May. Early planting almostinvariably pays the best. Cotton is planted in May and June. Duringthe spring months, the weather is generally warm and pleasant. Winter MISSOURI. 89 wheat is ready for harvesting from the 20th of June to the 10th of July, theusual time being the 1st of the latter month. Strawberries are in marketin April, cherries early in May, peaches from June to November. Con-cord grapes begin to come into market about the first of August, Duringthe latter part of June, all of July and August, there are many warmdays, the thermometer often indicating in the nineties every day for aweek or two, but rarely reaching 100 degrees in the shade in any parto
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