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have late summer rains and the grass remains green 

 until frost comes (which is generally early), it is in- 

 jured, and stock does not seem to do as well as when 

 it dries up early, as is generally the case. During the 

 winter the lowlands and sharp foot-hills are, for the 

 most part, free from snow. Usually the snow is 

 chased away by the winds, except that which is driven 

 into the thick cluster of grass and becomes bedded 

 among the old blades of other years. While grazing, 

 stock gathers up more or less snow, which serves in a 

 great measure as a substitute for water. When the 

 snow departs in the spring, stock goes to the foot-hills, 

 following up the receding snow, the grass which lies 

 covered all winter being relished best, and, besides, the 

 young crop starts first and grows fastest among the 

 sharp foot-hills. In the States young grass seems to 

 have a weakening effect upon stock, and here it comes 

 forth among the old crop, and is so well mixed that 

 there is scarcely any difference between the old and 

 new. Many have claimed that it could not induce 

 close pasturage, but experience and practical tests have 

 proved to the contrary. It is a perennial, yet, when 

 the root becomes killed, the seeds are so generally dis- 

 tributed by the winds that a barren tract will become 

 covered. 



"WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO. 



" Iliff, the Cattle-king of the Plains, now deceased, had 

 a range of one hundred and fifty miles long and a herd 

 of cattle numbering 26,000, and was called the great 

 Cattle-king of the Plains, and had the boss ranch in 



