Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — Rains, Showers and Freshet's. [ARTICLE]

Rains, Showers and Freshet's.

Gooa-aU’s Chicago Bun. We copy tue following from the Albany Argus “The rain in tue early spring season, instead of falling in moderate showers as is-the case in thickly-wooded regions comes in violent gushes and sends down vast bodies of water to the lower portion pf the rivers.” We never have moderate Bhowers in eariy spring. The season of showers, in this climate, seldom start in before the first‘Of May. March gives us heavy rain a, not showers. Thickly wooded regions like Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, are no more blessed with “moderate showers” thiMi New York.

Tbe raiafail of any country does not depend on tbe magnitude of its forests. lowa and Illinois have no forests, yet no* States have a more plentiful supply oi showers from April to October. Egypt is like Illinois and lowa, treeless. And ijet Egypt seldom sees a shower, while it never sees a heavy rain. There are places in Egypt which have not seen a rain of any kind in two centuries. And yet Egypt is one of the most productive wheat and cotton growing countries in the world. We again repeat, forests do not produce rains, neither do their absence reduce the crolSgro wing powers of a State to the extent of one per -cent. Recnnd-

ly, showers are a matter of latitude, and net of tree culture. They have thunder-storms at the .tropics nearly every day in the year/ A thunderstorm is reldom eeen north of Labrador, while no man was ever struck with lightning who resided above 70 north. U A volcano has been discovered on the plantation of J. t B. Helhere, near Newberrv, 8. C. There may be something in a name after all. Bluff widout scrappin’ es ycu kin—but bluff. /f :