u8 OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCHWOMAN 



identical with our own, to be considerably 

 less than that of Denver, Colorado, San 

 Francisco, California, or even San Antonio, 

 the great health resort of Texas. Cyclones 

 and blizzards never visit us. Having said all 

 this, it is proper to add that our wind is 

 extremely disagreeable, nay, hateful, and that 

 it bloweth at any season, when and where it 

 listeth, though without resulting damage to 

 man, beast, or crop. Allowing that spring is 

 its most favoured season, summer and fall its 

 least favoured, I have, nevertheless, known a 

 lamblike March and April and a rowdy, 

 blustering May. The wind is not to be 

 relied on, though it must inevitably be 

 reckoned with. Months may go by without 

 one rude puff, and then it may rage cease- 

 lessly for days, calming itself only at night. 

 Consolation is to be sought in the knowledge 

 that it brings neither rain, damp, nor languor 

 in its train, and that, on the contrary, it acts 

 as a wholesome, if disagreeable, purifier and 

 disinfectant. 



The summers are, as summers should be, 

 hot. This characteristic is not peculiar to 

 the season in Southern New Mexico, but is 



