Show REVEL IN MOISTURE famed short grass country of kansas outgrows outgrow ws name ame GARDEN CITY KAN famed since covered wagon days as the short grass coun country try the great high plains area extending roughly from central kansas to the colorado foothills is outgrowing its name this year the short a common question as mystified visitors in this western re glon elon look around this season the short grass has become long grass the often short wheat Is tau tall wheat and nd the country itself just look the same nature Is running riot moisture penetrates the ground to a depth of 8 to 12 feet in may sometimes a dry month inches of rain tell fell here during the wheat growing season since september fields lave have been soaked by 2329 inches of 0 rain from the days when there was little but buffalo to see the plains and fatten on them the grass known as buffalo grass or short grass has been famous for or its succulence despite the fact that it lies close to the ground never growing tall like ba bluegrass egrass but this year even that type of grass what little the plows have left as virgin sod Is taller and more luxuriant than ever before in the sandhills sand hills along the arkansas river pastures are growing so fast that an extraordinarily large number of cattle can be grazed even the sagebrush and cactus are reveling in the moisture it is the wheat itself however which shows the most marked benefit from the soaking mothers are I 1 p I 1 3 getting afraid to let children play around the fields it if they venture far among the stalks they may be hard bard to find many fields have wheat up to mens shoulders where fields have been sowed bowed right up to narrow roads motorists enjoy reaching out ot of car windows to pluck the large perfectly filled heads some fields are so large that a person cannot see across them from a car combines in some cases make a three mile drive without turning truly it Is a record breaking year for western kansas |