The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-06-14
WORLDS CEASELESS HARVEST
EVERY MONTH IS HARVEST

D
prices months later give the Ameri
/ can grain raiser the benefit Of a strong
/ advance just when his grain leaves
] the thrcshcr II frequently happens
also that strong financial interests
connected with the exchanges carry
the load during periods OF financial
disturbance enabling producers to go
on marketing without any serious de-
cline in prices This was the case
during the fan marketing period OF
1907
The republic Of Argentina. which
started to raise wheat in systematic
manner only eighteen years ago and
now raises more wheat than does Ger
many, probably furnishes the best a.
lustrat.on. In l9O7OS Argentina rails.
ed lS5.OoO.Ou bushels OF wheat--a
crop far in excess OF any before rails.
ed in that land To market the sur
plus the first shipments we're G000.-
OOu To 100000 bushels a week, the
price OF wheat dropping as the mar.
kots became gluttcd. Some saga ious
and enterprisiug merchants saw the
harm resulting TO the farmers or
gani2cd a board or trade modelled
after the Chicago exchange. which
successfully competed with the Euro
pean buyers by creating an open
| a ..tf la, ia a
ed $l,5oOu0O to the wheat growers.
reducing the export figure to 100000
bushels week
The staple crops are sown, raised
and harvested in other lands and ON
other continents In much cruier
way than in the United States TIE
implements employed in Asia. AfricJ
Europe and America mark the eyulu.
ton Of agricultural machinery In
many parts of Africa and Ccnt1.
Asia the wooden digging stick, its
point shar7enod by being uDbed
against stone and hardened by being
Charrcd in the fro-originally inycI.
ed many centuries ago-is still en-
ployed in forcing rotfool out OF
the ground. The African b,caks
ground with his hands and in mony
parts of the dark continent iren and
women pluck the stalks OF com with
their hands or use stone Hniyes for
rcaping Most OF the As'dics use
wooden plows. In many OF the cont
mental countries IN, plow consists ot
"A crooked wooden stick 70 one end
of which Is fastened rude piece o.
iron and in certain parts of Russia
the woman is allowed TO plow the
land by means of this contr'yaGnce
, while the men who are usually car.
Z penters and masons betake themselves
to the cities in order to swell the fam.
, lily income by working at their trades
: Russia usos horses, India bulocks
, Persia camels for harvest work. The
horses in farm work in France ar,
% large, those in use in Russia are
g small In many parts of Africa Tn,
g human backs are used for transport
g ing corn from the fields into the rude
q ly constructed barns. In Aslatic coun
, tries the iron sickle is in constant us,
in reaping the crops, while in many
, of the continental countries, the cid
J.. er and swiftor brother of the sickle
O. the scythe, is still employed.
a This matter-of-factness of IN,
American farmer while an eXtremeh
# valuable asset in many ways, spoIli
!. his chance of being picturesque. Tn,
{. farmer in Europe invests his worl
n with ceremonals and fetes. like thos,
y in Fran r.. But, 1t Is the East Indial
(. farmer who outdoes the rest of tn,
# world in indulging himself in harves
II ceremonies and festivities. The da
Is when the crop is finally gathered Il
n means an epoch in his life. Submere
*. ed in poverty as he eternally is. be
+, cause Of the usurous buyers, h
l. makes the harvest day a period q
A. strenuous celebration. The laborer
IA gather together under cluster q
I trees, with a supply of wine-whic
,r usually is homemade in defiance q
is the excise rules of the British rule
ii They are dressed in their gala garbi
T.. their heads adorned with tirbans tie
IN IN many shapes and including all IN
AZ coIors of the rainbow. When nigh
pr falls the party gathers round tn
- queen sheaf,' as the sheaf whlc
was cut and tied first Is called. an
~ whish is decorated with bhght-colo
r. ed ribbons. They PROSTATE then
s selves before the sheaf, renderln
in obeisance TO the God of Grain" Thi
IN done an amateur theatrical troupe b.
~ gins a performance. In the sma