Trees and Blizzards.
Larimore Pioneer: Prof. Charles
E. Bessy, an eminent scientist of the
university, of Nebraska, writes as follows
to the American Agriculturist
concerning the blizzard: "The tree
planter has routed the blizzard wherever
he has set his little army of trees.
The blizzard tyrant no longer rules at
will over all the Mississippi valley.
Wherever a grove has come into existence
there the blizzard's scepter has
been broken. True, he rules as fiercely
as ever outside of the groves, but as
these enlarge his dominion contracts.
When once the groves are approximately
continuous, and when once
they have grown to greater hights, the
blizzard will be a thing of the past.
The settler upon the plains need not
fear the blizzard for more than a half
dozen years, if he calls to his aid the
friendly cottonwood, maple, ash and
elm. They alone can vanquish this
terror of the western winter. let
every settler's motto be: 'Trees rather
than blizzards.'"
