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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw AT chilitech.net>]

I think I'm missing your point. It's pretty common knowledge that the
northeast has fairly even precipitation year-round, and other parts of the
country don't.

If you are talking about grazing, it's also well known that it's as
difficult to graze in the northeast in the winter months as it is for you
to graze in the dry months.  We have no pasture growth from November to
April, and heavy snow cover for several months, giving us a 6-month
grazing season. In your area, with the moderate temperatures and rainfall
in the winter, don't you have pasture growth then? Looks like you should
have 6 months of good grazing, same as those of us in the northeast. The
pattern is different, but the result is the same. You have to graze when
you have pasture and feed hay when you don't.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>
To: "Homestead mailing list digest" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 2:52 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Lovin' Your Ranchette: "monthly rainfall" Portland -
Google Image Search


> This about says it in a nutshell.  The pic on the left is for Portland,
> Maine, and the dry looking bar graph on the right is for Portland,
Oregon:
>
>
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=+"monthly+rainfall"+Portland&btnG=Search
>
<http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=+%22monthly
+rainfall%22+Portland&btnG=Search>
>
> Isn't it great what you can find on the Internet?
>
> Bill
> S. Oregon coast
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