Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the broad Midwest prairies the harvest spilled northward in a bright golden wave. Last week it brought its bounty to this little farm near Lincoln, Neb., where War Veteran Fred A. Liebers, his wife and their husky son grow wheat and oats, tend their dairy cows and chickens, and feed part of the world...
...farmer, harvest is a time of rejoicing and backbreaking work. Well before sunup the Liebers were out in the barn, snapping the stanchions on their Holsteins, switching on the 20-year-old milking machine. They paused briefly for a hearty farm breakfast on the cool screened porch. Then the Liebers went out to the oat fields, father on the tractor, 14-year-old Wayne on the binder. They tussled with the Mexican fireweed that had got into the oats, stopped to oil the binder, took a swig from the canvas water jug, worked...
...death), he wanted to prove it literally. So he planted 360 kernels of high-yielding Bald Rock wheat. Then Quaker Hayden had another idea: he would dramatize the Biblical injunction of tithing (giving a tenth of one's income to God), so he pledged a tenth of his harvest to his meeting...
Fortnight ago, when Hayden reaped his third harvest (26 bushels), he had notable visitors: Henry Ford and Charles Figy, Michigan's Commissioner of Agriculture. Ford, who owns the acre of land used for the project, brought along a -year-old self-raking reaper for use in the harvesting. Figy came to inspect the wheat which in its first harvesting had multiplied 50-fold, almost twice Michigan's average. So rapidly did the wheat grains grow that Hayden calls them "dynamic kernels." Next year, Hayden expects to harvest from 15 to 20 acres...
Beneath the Harvest Moon...