the
temperatures at times descending to as low as 80 degrees below zero.
However, our springs, summers, and autumns are mild and nearly twice as
long as your seasons, for the Martian year is 687 days long. We grow
and mature many crops of necessary cereals, fruits and vegetables
during the spring and summer months, so that want is never felt by our
happy people.

Our method of irrigation is somewhat different from that practised in
the arid portions of your Earth. We do not, except in a few instances,
flood our lands as you do. Owing to the fact that our atmosphere is
much lighter than yours, the normal air pressure being only about 8
pounds to the square inch as against 15 pounds on your Earth,
evaporation is very rapid, and the dewfall, as a consequence of much
moisture being in the air, is very great.

This heavy humidity also tends to prevent radiation of heat, and the
temperature at night does not drop exceedingly low, although frost is
not uncommon even in summer. As our vegetation is acclimated and
adapted to our environment no damage is done to growing crops by reason
of these frosts.

The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified
atmosphere. Neither have they abnormally developed lungs. God has
made ample provision for the comfort of His creatures throughout all of
His infinite creations, and we of Mars are not excepted from this
Fatherly care and love.

Should an inhabitant of your Earth be suddenly transported to Mars he
could live but a few minutes, for the reason that his lungs could not
assimilate enough oxygen from our light atmosphere.

Economy is a science with us. Nothing is wasted. Every possible
square inch of ground produces food for man or beast. Even the north
and south Arctic regions, after their seasonal thaws blossom forth with
vegetal growth, as astronomers on your Earth have observed. These
regions produce their quota of food by being utilized as pasturage for
our cattle. Immense amounts of forage are also gathered for the long
Martian winters, when a greater portion of either the north or south
hemisphere is covered with a mantle of snow.

The equatorial regions are always pleasant. No severe wind storms are
experienced on Mars; neither do we have lightning or other magnetic
disturbances such as you experience.

As a corollary to the tranquility of our inhabitants living in peace,
Love and harmony, and the truths of God expressed in our everyday
living,