The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-13
SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO.,, I6O LAKE STREET, CHICAGO

each with it's cap or watershed against the rains.
 Another binder has fallen in and is follow ing then comes another and yet another until six are travelling forward in a zigzas line toward the horizon. Behind them the men move like skirmishers. It will be hours before that line has circled the field and is back again to Its starting point to cut out another swath.
 The immensity and stupendous propor- tions of the American harvest, as revealed full sranaries and generous plenty is just by tn last week of october, the month of at present startling the world. because 1t Is becoming every year more and more a generally recognized fact that to the far mer and his varied products is due the great and ever-increasing prosperity enjoy- cd by Uncle Sam. Kentucky plays an im- portant part in this great industry. which is something for Kentuckians to be proud of and thankful for.
 The eyes of the world are watching care fully just now what the October harvest will be in America. for between the two oceans have been raised one-ffth of the worlds wheat four-fifths of it's corn. one fourth of its oats and four -fifths of it's cot ton.
 This year agriculture will add about four billion dollars to the country's wealth, and foreign customers will pay not far from $500, ,00o. 900 for agricultural products ship ped to them over the The abundance of the American harvest is of great impor- tance to the railways and domestic ship ping lines, that carry sixty million tons of grain to inland towns and seaboard shipping ports: to ocean shipping lines that carry half billion dollars worth of of grain and cotton to foreign lands to the cotton spinners Of the English Mid lands. who buy quarter of America s enormous cotton crop. paying for it one hundred and fifty million dollars; to the makers of agricultural implements. whose annual output is valued at a hundred mill lion dollars; to England's forty million peo- pie. who need one hundred million bushels of Uncle Sam's wheat and flour for chread to political leaders in America and Europe,
 whose policies are shaped by the ebb and flow of agricultural prosperity | The binders rattle on and the men skir- ftiish behind while there is light by which to work. No wasting, daylight with fifteen I or twenty thousand acres to be harvested fin a fortnight. When they quit at last the
 mice and gophers and all other people of the ground are going to bed in the wreck age of their homes. and there is a brown patch in the sea of gold
 The men feed heroically in the big cook | houses on The ground. Then ffddles and accordeons come out of the packs. He who knows a good story tells it: he who can sing trolls out the latest popular ditty; through the half-hour of rest before bed
 time they make merry, as is the way of American harvesters.
 The city man who has never pitched
 wheat or shocked grain behind the harves. ter does not understand the simple joy of iabor Everyone Is working, and working hard.
 The farmer and his large family and all within his gates are busy and healthily s'hands," who travel over the Country in
 dirty and happy. From the errant harvest time the farmers has gathered in his force.
 Once in simpler and more democratic times. these laborers lived with the farmer and messed at the same table with his wife and daughters. Those were the old years.