Show goats used for harvest in southwest mountains LAS TRAMPAS N M giant combines and gleaming new binders harvest the wheat in most of twentieth century america but in the remote mountains of new mexico where the mail comes by buggy three times a week the spanish americans still use herds of goats instead of machines for the harvest its an old custom handed down when spanish conquistadores rode through what is now the great southwest of the united states As far as juan and pedro and the other little people of the new mexico mountains are concerned its still good enough on hard packed ground the herd of threshing goats is driven around and around the wheat is under their sharp hooves and in moments the grain has been trampled into the dust leaving only straw the primitive farmers shovel up the chaff and wheat and dirt and throw it into the air to clean it |