The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-18
AGRICULTURAL COMMENT.
The Man iR lhe Wood box Explains
Absut winter Wheat,
lBurdettein the Hawkeye. j

Absut winter Wheat.
lBurdettein in the Hawkeyei
"The wheat never looked better,' re-
marked the sad passenger, gazing out OF
the window.
"Where is there any wheatT asked
the fat passenger.
Il don't know" was the calm reply,
81 DON'T really know that there is any
wheat in Wyandotte County, but every
body always talks about the wheat look
ing finely at this time of the year, and /
know that it must be the proper thing
to say"
'"That is wheat in the field ON our
right" said the man on the wood box.
"That green stuff" echoed all the
other passengers, rushing to the window.
EYES," he replied, Chat bright, dark,
green stuff"
"Why," they chorussed again, in dis
appointed tones, "it looks like grassw
II thought wheat was yellow" said
the passenger with the sandy goatee; /;
don't they always talk about the yellow
fields and the golden grainT'
That's when it is ripe" exclaimed
the man on the wood box.
"Wheat yellow when it's ripew in
credulously cried the sad passenger. II
guess you're thinking of corn meal. How
could they make white bread cut Of
yellow wheatw
"There are two kinds of wheat, aren't
thereY" asked the tall, thin passenger.
eyes," said the man ON the wood box,
"spring and winter"
"How do they difar~
"Well," the man on the wood box said,
"spring wheat is planted in the spring,
and winter wheat is planted in the win
ter"
II nave heard farmers talk of fall
wheat" the fat passenger said.
eyes," the man on the wood box as
sented. And then in answer to their
looks Of inquiry he added, "it is planted
in the fall.''
II thought" the passenger with the
sandy goatee remarked, "that spring
wheat was planted in the fall and har-
vested in the spring.?
The man on the wood box said: eyes
he believed, come to think Of it, that
was the way oft"
"And winter wheat, then," the sad
passenger suggested, is planted in the
spring and harvested in the winter?'
The man on the wood box shifted un-
easily in his seat and looked nervously
up and down tho car.
"Well, yes,",, he said, he "guessed it
was that way"
"Then fall wheat" asked the fat pas
senger, earnestly.
And the man on the wood box bit the
end of match, took off his hat and
looked into it, and finally said he be-
lieved it wasn't planted until next fall.
"Then you got three crops of wheat
said the sad passenger, "of the same
field in one yearw
The man on the wood box said Eyes"
but so family that he had to repeat it
twice before they could all hear him.
(Which is the best wheat?" asked the
tall thin passenger.
lH6 HAL 0H tilt WOUu pUA WAS l1cdTu
by strange passenger to whisper to the
stove-pipe that che wished he was dead"
but he rallied little and said:
"For bread?"
eyes, for breadT
The man on the wood box opened his
mouth to reply, when he caught the eye
of the woman who talks bass fixed upon
him with strange, intense expression
He got off his.perch, walked down the
aisle to the difused and abandoned
water tank, looked around for the Ions
lost tin cup, drew some Hypothetical
water into it out of the empty tank
took long drink of nothing out of it,
and as he came back to his seat, the sub
dued croak of the woman who talks bas
and the composed countenances Of the
other passengers convinced him they
had been laughing about something
But he didn't seem to care what it wa
about, for he didn't ask, and present.,
he drew his hat down over his eyes ant
dissembled sleep.
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