Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — Snow-warmed Land. [ARTICLE]

Snow-warmed Land.

Mr. W. M. "Williams finds the beneficence of snow fully manifested, in such a climate as that of Siberia, where a temperature of seventy to eighty degrees below zero, or thirty to forty degrees below the freezing point of mer-* - cury, was recorded last October. The snow, coming early in the season, and being an almost absolute nonconductor of heat, serves as an effective clothing for the soil, which is thus protected from so low a minimum temperature as it occasionally reaches in England, with the air at fifteen or twenty degrees over naked ground. Hence the. paradox of Siberian vegetation, which is so luxuriant in the summer, when the heat of the long days is so very intense.—Ark. Traveler.