Proud prairie
To the editor:
“Ditch grass” indeed! That tall three-pronged grass in the photograph on 1B of the Oct. 7 Journal-World is tall bluestem grass, once the pride of the Kansas prairies. Now only these tiny vestiges of the prairie remain. The grass was commonly called “turkey-foot” grass.
It grows so tall that it could conceal a man on horseback, and the roots went as much as 20 feet into the ground. It is high in protein content, and, at one time, the tallgrass prairie extended from Canada deep into Texas.
Thank goodness for some large reserves such as the Konza Prairie!
Mary Y. Allen,
Lawrence