One such man chartered special trains to bring out from the middle States his proposed clients or victims.

To meet the trains he owned as many as twenty-five motor-cars, in which at once on arrival these people were driven all over the property to make their selection.
The first breaking of this prairie country is done with huge steam ploughs, having each twelve shares, so that the breaking is done very rapidly, the depth cultivated being only some two inches or three inches.

The thick close sod folds over most beautifully and exactly, and it was always a fascinating sight, if a sad one, to watch this operation--the first opening up of this soil that had lain uncultivated for so many aeons of time.

The seed may be simply scattered on the sod before the breaking, and often a splendid crop is thus obtained.
Simplicity of culture, truly! [Illustration: BREAKING THE PRAIRIE.] [Illustration: FIRST CROP--MILO MAIZE.] Before leaving the United States of America a few notes about that country.

Though as a rule physically unpicturesque, it has some great wonder-places and beauty spots, such as the Yosemite Valley, the Grand Canon of the Colorado, the Yellowstone Park, the Falls of Niagara, and the big trees of California, which trees it may be now remarked are conifers (Sequoia gigantea and Sequoia sempervirens), which attain a height of 400 feet.