Show Old Race Rac Passes I we NEED a poet to sing the s song ng of a avy I vy passing the race American harvest hand was when the scorching summer sun of the great middle western wheat belt beH boot bit down on a migratory herd of adventurous men bound on a l mission both economic and ro a To quote a staff corr correspondent of Kansas City Star they led a hard life tife and JM the harvest from Oklahoma on 11 h through Kansas s. Nebraska and the DaInto Da- Da s into Canada C Blazing sun and intense h lf to fight all the way dust of threshers q j. j of many a weary mile of country road on nt- nt new stand These in t men spent oppressive nights Wms traveled in boxcars often were robbe I white while on the road But the avest hand band took ms his bumps without great His spirit grew as hard as the thel l on his hands as s rough as his n d skin He exchanged chews of tobacco th his partners of the road swapped s rough rought t i id d ready ridy yarns and grew philosophical But day y the species is rare machiner wrought Ls-wrought a L great chan change e in the farm fann labor atton on the wheat plains Many farms no outside assistance at harvest Those Wat at do are supplied by motor car h a v I genus enus that infests the grain belt high high- so in flivvers The nt maintains permanent em em- bureaus in many towns throughout 4 e wheat country but machinery has disPlaced dis- dis Placed paced about 75 cent of human help has bas a banner cr crop p of wheat It may the greatest in its history And 80 per of it will be harvested by motor car hands the product of ot otan an efficient age It r ewer of this new species of harvest to handle the grain because they can can ct v. v with th greater ease They can do more Work with less than their more romantic Predecessors hut but even they will grow fewer and fewer with the passing years as the machinery spreads through throughOut ut the wheat country They re the remnant of a r picturesque race I |