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The Worst Was Yet to Come We grew wonderful wheat at first ; the only problem was to get it to market and to live on the proceeds when it was sold . My father hauled his wheat from the Iowa River to Waterloo , and even to Iowa City ...
The Worst Was Yet to Come We grew wonderful wheat at first ; the only problem was to get it to market and to live on the proceeds when it was sold . My father hauled his wheat from the Iowa River to Waterloo , and even to Iowa City ...
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Yet no fuzzy dreamer gave America its giant durum wheat crop . Others called him a bore and a pest . That was because he had to jam facts into narrow minds of government officials and millers . All were right on one score ; he was no ...
Yet no fuzzy dreamer gave America its giant durum wheat crop . Others called him a bore and a pest . That was because he had to jam facts into narrow minds of government officials and millers . All were right on one score ; he was no ...
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So had the Russian Mennonites he had met growing wheat successfully in his own Kansas . In the midst of bitter wheat years these quiet religious people were prosperous , with good houses and painted barns . He had quizzed the quaint ...
So had the Russian Mennonites he had met growing wheat successfully in his own Kansas . In the midst of bitter wheat years these quiet religious people were prosperous , with good houses and painted barns . He had quizzed the quaint ...
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Contents
Christopher Columbus Turns in a Crop | 3 |
Much More Corne was Planted | 9 |
PERLEY POORE How the Pig Helped to Make Massa | 16 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Harvest: An Anthology of Farm Writing |
| Editor | Wheeler McMillen |
| Publisher | Appleton-Century, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 424 pages |
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