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Show REVEL IN MOISTURE Famed Short Grass Country Of Kansas 'Outgrows' INaiiie GARDEN CITY, KAN. -J? dayss the short grass country, the great ir R P d foot. extending roughly from antral Kansas to hil1' SaS. commoquest mystified visitors In this western re-gion re-gion look around this season. The short grass has become long grass, the often short wheat Is tall wheat and the country Itself Just doesn t 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, 5.28 inches of rain fell here. During the wheat growing season since September fields have been soaked by 23.29 inches of rain. From the days when there was litlle but buffalo to see the plains and fatten on them, the grass, known as buffalo grass or short grass, has been famous for Its succulence despite the fact that It lies close to the ground, never growing tall like bluegrass. 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, along the Arkansas Arkan-sas river pastures are growing so fast that an extraordinarily large number of cattle can be grazed. Even the sagcbruh and cactus are reveling in the moisture. It is the wheat itself, however, which shows the most marked ber.e- fit from the soaking. Mothers are I gc'.lir.n afra:d to let ch.ldren l 'iy 1 around the fit-Ids :f they ver.ture fjr arr.org the I'.a'V.s they may te hard to fir.d. Mar.y fel ! hive wheat up to men's h. uMcrs. Where f.cldi have been lowed r:,:); up to r.arrL roads. rr.o. r:V.i erjy rc;c.'-.;r.g out cf car w ;;.dow i to p"..;c the large, prrfoc'.ly f.Iled he. di. S rr. f.-U!s are 10 l-.rge that a perw.n ca:;not -e acroit them f:em a car. Ctirr.bif.n in i:.e c.vrj n a'.e three-rmle drne ;tJ:.ut t;irr.:r . ' Truly it is a rcc rd-trcak..:.g year for wcs'.crn Kalmi. |