Bluestem is best here in this desert country because it resists drought, it produces large yield, it does not break, and the flour-mills rate it very high.
Bluestem is not good in wet soils." Anderson tramped along the edge of the field, peering down, here and there pulling a shaft of wheat and examining it.

The girl gazed with dreamy eyes across the undulating sea.

And Dorn watched her.
"We have a ranch--thousands of acres--but not like this," she said.
"What's the difference ?" asked Dorn.
She appeared pensive and in doubt.
"I hardly know.

What would you call this--this scene ?" "Why, I call it the desert of wheat! But no one else does," he replied.
"I named father's ranch 'Many Waters.' I think those names tell the difference." "Isn't my desert beautiful ?" "No.

It has a sameness--a monotony that would drive me mad.