| Show A REMEDY FOR BLIZZARDS forestry Fo retry should do be greatly by Dakota ls sad experience F forestry or estry by the sad experience of 0 this winter should be greatly stimulated in ill dakota A blizzard is simply a strong cold wind unchecked over leagues of light unpicked unpacked it sweeps up that hat which has previously fallen carries it away in ill the color of 0 a vast shaken fleece distributes it so t that bat almost a each atmospheric atom has its little particle and dries along nil all with a bready fury whether fresh inov snow is falling can seldom be determined by people out in a real blizzard As fr fir as the eye can seo see upward and that is but a little space the hurry of minute pellets hurling through ether across an all unrevealed sky prevails and the hurrying sameness on every side is varied only by occasional tall ard bending wraiths chero the wind nind n ind whirls in shit ting I 1 column A confusion of the senses comparable to none produced of otherwise lier wise ari pals one submitted to the enormous and blinding force ot of such a snow filled wind wi nd and scarcely it distinct thought remains except that the awful cold forbids crouching for rest and shelter to our personal knowl knowledge edze ono one in such a storm keeps with difficulty upon a railway track lifted three feet above the surrounding prairie and may bo be lost by five steps the lie wrong way after stumbling down from the embankment which being T hite becomes instantly invisible it is recorded on good authority that bands ol of teamsters halting with their horses have hare been snowed over thirty feet deep by blizzards and have bare survived by beating out breathing chambers till fill the cessation of the storm enabled them to dig themselves to upper air the formation of a drift about a halted man or horse or sleigh I 1 is sometimes wonderfully speedy and the drift once dice established grows by virtue of its obstructs eness in some well authenticated cases lost persons have been found by the drifts over them and aang out alive in others the spring his has revealed corpses still unthawed unthaw cd among the last white relies relics of winter in blizzards people have often been unable to see sec across the street of a northwest town and sometimes mod men mendose lose their direction in trying tn t the opposite side of 0 a well built way this does docs not indicate that the blizzard would prevail if largo large tracts of wood obstructed ted the wind ns as the buildings of a city do the storm Is fully developed before reaching the town and rages through and over the comparatively small space but extensive forests or many roadside beltsos belts of wood would keep the blizzard down their frequent occurrence and the great loss of life from them enforce the need which exists from other causes tor for systematic tree planting on the plains to branch out roads as they do over lakes riv rivers ers and plains in the quebec province is impossible on the treeless prairie nor would the device always save travelers the mennonites Mcnno have hae wisely established a post road many miles mile long in southern manitoba tho the posts post fare ara about belv iu dhein diat daime peter fifteen feet high and not morl inore to ta tion than fifty feet apart yet travelers often stray from that road in in blizzards toronto globe |
