Show the old settler my aly dear san Juanc rs well how did you easterners ast erners ever happen to find out how low t tj make this land yield I 1 asked we can see fiat aou ou are ding but who told you it succeed I 1 1 how diio y 11 ever get onto it 1 we had to think fast and hard it was 0 matter of root hog or i die for we t go back to the desolation n the east to be blown n off the face of the earth even if e starve and there was v as nothing for so many of us its I 1 liere here unless we ve produce it it was really old peter van ei eai who gave us ilic ho first cue lie he saw the sunflowers sun flowers and the yellow clover growing goowin along tle tie side of ofa the highway and lie got the notion j that thae they could be made to grow row anywhere if sm something ething were made to divert or conserve tile the rain ile he felt sure that at least lea st something could be made to grow that would sustain life ile he made level terraced terra cej cei over a section of countr country and when lie he saw wh what at lie he had raised we simply went wild over it the terra terrace cec were to be nearer together or farther apart according to the amount of f moa moisture and most of the tu tuff ff was to grow on the bank cl or r inthe ditch above tt it when the rich sage sag I 1 brush was all gobbled up ve had to go somewhere and we came here from necessity and now we think it is fine these farmsteads stretch cli for miles and miles their yellow clover and trees giving the country an appearance daffe different diffee ent nt to anything thin that we ever dreamed before chii happened of course this i is june and the country is at its best it will nill look worse towards fall but it lias has gone through enough dry summers and falls to justify the hope that it will carry on every little farm I 1 as its trees they are for wind nind bleik for wod wi od lots to banish the desert appearance of the landscape and possibly as an invitation to the rain rain they have that new kind of quick growing elm and that ash from iran which grows gros rega e a deife they also han have e fruit trees and berry lushes bushes and grapes grapes grape gr epes we hadn haan t discovered disco ered gr pbs in in a all the years of our pottering lottering pott ering avith them before these beope to came ALBERT R LYMAN to be continued next week |