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Show OLD CRADLE COMES DACK. Wet Weather Compel Resort to Primitive Prim-itive Methods. In lSin, which was uefuro the modern mod-ern reaper and binder had been In-vented, In-vented, nil grain was cradled, nnd by employment or that primitive method tho loss to tho farmers was considerably consider-ably reduced. Now tho boll Is bo thoroughly saturated with water thnt tho heavy machines nro rendered practically useless, and many farmers have gone back to tho cradle to savo If possible, somo portion of their badly bad-ly deteriorating crops. It Is a common com-mon sight to see farmeis In rubber boots wading through tho sodden soil, cutting their wot and often growing crop of wheat with an old-fashioned cradle, Tho dealers hero cannot supply sup-ply tho demand for these old Implements, Imple-ments, for tho cradle a Bcoro of years ago. was Btowcd away with tho spinning spin-ning wheel and candlesticks. Not only havo tho old cradles been brought Into use, but new ones have been ordered. or-dered. Tho dealers here kept nothing of tho kind, and havo with difficulty lounil them among the Jobbers of tho state Geneva (N. V.) dispatch. |