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Show 1 CLE1I1 WHEAT I FROM IE FIELDS M l REGINA, Sask., Dec. 4. Four pret- $1 IB : ty village girls have taught the farm- jS II ers of the great wheat belt of western i 1 1 Canada a lesson In thrift. They have M II shown what a vast amount of grain Is mil' lost by modern harvesting methods y I and how It can be saved by a little W , extra labor. From stubble fields aban- i doned by their owners and awaiting 'II ! the Plow, these girls gleaned with , rakes enough wheat to sell for $646.50. 1 1 I j , Gleaning has never been customary I M ; in Canada. The farmers who, in this bonanza land, .sometimes clear enough tiW- on one wheat crop to pay for their! jar farms, have been content with the i twenty and thirty bushels to the acre l 'M , obtained by harvesting machinery. J M i Two girls living at Stony Beach asked a farmer for permission to go I J over hls stubble field -with rakes. Cer- LJ talnly, said the farmer, and all they rlS gleaned they could have. The girls set IMI to work next day at sun'uP and kept at Mm It until night The farmer was mildly M interested as he watched them; they S i made a pretty picture, recalling Ruth -EjM o oId gleaning In the field of Boaz. Wm He was surprised when at the end of lUlll four dayB' he saw a hls wheat stack mm standing in his stubble field. When lljfll the girls threashed their gleanings, 1 H they sold the wheat for 315. 'I S Two other girls of Bounty heard of ml the success of the maidens of Stony jjg Beach and tried a similar experiment, i ,3U They gleaned 150 bushels of -wheat Wm from 160 acres of abandoned stubble M fiolds and sold tho graJn for 5331.50. |