Show many a st slip for the farmer raising wheat is no easy task remarked a farmer one year I 1 had bed acres of as beautiful beat wheat as ever lay out of doors it stood breast high and it ft seemed good for forty bushels to the acre that meant to me a profit of 1 I had the teams and harvest hands bands engaged and expected to begin cutting on monday on friday afternoon there came out of the northwest a greenish gray cloud following a heavy rain tho the hall ball fell in ten minutes the wheat was flattened to six inches from the ground we cut a little of it for bay hay the remainder rot ted on the ground the mortgage on the tile farm was foreclosed and I 1 hired out by the day to support my family do you wonder that the wheat farmer Is not boastful of his crop until he has it in the granary i outlook |