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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Krowbar who wrote (46367)7/22/1999 3:02:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The prairies burned periodically from lightning strikes. Rabbits girdled the few trees that survived the fires. The live and dead grass was matted sometimes six feet deep. The top soil was six feet deep in some places. It crawled with rattled snakes. Clearing the land depended on the invention of the polished steel plow (by John Deere). Surprisingly, the first areas farmed were forested because the prairie was so impenetrable -- especially bottom land. The real line of prairie was the smooth level land left by the Wisconsinin glacier -- with terminal moraines about Charleston, Illinois. Once it was cleared it turned into the corn and bean basket of the world (extending of course) Westward into Iowa. Today there's little space for game to hide and the land is 90 per cent in corn and beans -- with a few houses, towns, and roads. Many farmers have trenched and drained their lands so it looks almost manufactured.
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