Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-07-26
Bubble, bubble, new wheat stubhle,
We are out in search for trouble
Kansas. Kansas,
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Harvesters of nineteen seven!
the farmer and his wife are likely to
tell them to shut up. The variety of
yells that have been perpetrated by the
college boys at the expense of the
Kansas wheat harvest doubtless has
hurried gray hairs into the heads of
some of the grain producers. No Won
der they do not petition for crew of
college boys.
"A few of 'em is all right" explained
one farmer, "but when you get bunch
together they are too swift for me-"
However, the college boys bring lot
OF brightness into the west. They
leave behind them string of good
stories and the choruses of the latest
songs. They teach young folks every
thing that's going, and the neighbor-
hood is frightened for a long time.
Some of the western girls are about
as smart as the college boys, and they
know how to work" the harvesters as
well as any one. In Saline county at
the last election q young woman ran
for the office of superintendent Of
schools. She had hard fight, and she
knew 1t. So she took a horse and bug
gy and went across country election
eering. One day just before noon she
drew up to wheat field where twenty
men were harvesting. She was the
center of interest at once, and the men
gathered around her.
II want all you men to vote for me-"
she began.
'What are you goin to do for us?'
called out one of the men.
'T'll be good official" she replied.
THAT amt enough Kin you COOK 2"
came back from the group.
Yes, can cook"
"Well, we've been Twin on mems
vest, and if you want us to vote for
you cook us woman's meal"
"Ill do 1t. Where's your cook
shack?" she declared and alighted from
her buggy. She prepared hearty,
well cooked meal for the harvest crew,
and when she went away they gave
three cheers and promised her their
votes. She was elected by majority
of eighteen, so that meal was not cook
cd In vain.
The college boys are of benefit to the
communities in which they work in
that they interest the young folks in
college life.
II am going to send my boy to col
lege," said one farmer who had a half
dozen college boys in his harvest field.
my boy used to think it was all right
to get along without college education,
but those college boys told him of the
fun at school and of the prospects they
have for business life when they come
out, and he has the fever so bad that
really think he will make something
Of himself yet 1t will cost something
but If what those boys say is so there
Is little chance for loss, as he will have
better salary when he comes out
ehan he can get any other way"
That kind of spirit excited on the
farms of the west is sending large
numbers of boys from the prairie
states to seek education in the east.
Probably it is a good investment even
II the boys with the football hair are
not such hard workers as some of the
western farm hands.
From the tenderfoot's point of view
the harvest period is a serious one, and
he Is likely to be very much surprised
by some of the experience he meets.
One Of these said concerning his work
Il was quite ignorant of farming and
kept the farmers amused by asking
foolish questions. While | was green