The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . but in theeastern half the average is 32, two-thirds of which is during the agricul-tural months, or quite as much rain at the precise time when it
The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . but in theeastern half the average is 32, two-thirds of which is during the agricul-tural months, or quite as much rain at the precise time when it is neededas falls during the same months in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, andNew York. A peculiarity of the rainfall is that it is mostly at nights, sothat the heaviest showers, quickly draining into the land, scarcely inter-fere with work on the farm. The temperature is of the temperate zone,healthful and bracing to man and beast, and in which corn, small grains,apples, and peaches come to rich perfection. NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. The prairie, clothed only by natural processes, presents its own testi-mony to the riches of the State. Its whole expanse is covered withgrasses, there being not fewer than one hundred and fifty species, and themost abundant making the best pasture, showing green at the end ofApril and affording feed until November. The blue-joint grows every-where except on low bottoms. Under ordinary conditions its growth is. NEBRASKA AND ITS RESOURCES. 177 two and a half to four feet, and on cultivated grounds it is found fromseven to ten feet high. Wild oats grow on the uplands, mixed with blue-joint. This grass is relished by cattle, and is abundant. The buffalo-grass, low in habit, is now found in the western half of the State. Itdisappears before cultivation, but it is Natures provision of food forgrain-eating animals during Avinter on the prairie, inasmuch as it retainsits nutriment all the year round. Among other feed-grasses are severalvarieties of bunch-g
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