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Saw Thomomys hills where we stopped for lunch - about half our distance- & more where we camped. set traps & caught one. Saw Perognathus holes all along.
   The air is clean & fresh & delicious though the sun shines hot during the day. The expanse of country; good grass & big sky are delightful & the sweet, tinkling song of cassin sparrow & occasional bubble of a meadowlark perfect the charm of the plains.
   Rain is badly needed - the grass is abundant but dry - the water courses are all dry & we had to pay for water at ranches for our stock. Water is raised from deep wells by windmills, horse or steam pumps & the supply is scarcely enough at present for the stock on the ranches. Fields of corn are raised at most of the ranches but it has dried up without earing & is being cut for fodder
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