Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-14
Department Of Agriculture
Shows Much That Is
Primitive and Pictur-
esque In Foreign Lands.
HUSBANDMEN OF
INDIAN SLAVES
Hu France During June the Reapers'
sWheat Song" Is In Contrast to
American Binders Snarl.

BdSulHSlOll June I1.-l Ue WOTlu >
eeaseless harvest is on now in Cali
Gornia, South of France, Italy and Por-
tugal according to the data gathered
by the department Of agriculture,
which shows that every month is har-
vest month somewhere on the globe.
That data enlivened by cantrasts-the
contrasts of methods and fruits of the
harvest-and also by accounts of the
fetes that in some lands follow the
harvest.
In the fields of France the hus-
Dandmen - and husbandwomen - are
singing the wheat song that has this
refrain: M
"Work on, work ever,
Oh peasant poor!
Let slothfulness never
Stop thy endeavour--
Or thy ruin S sure"
When the harvest is done the song
will cease and the harvest fete will
begin. with dancing and drinking, with
picnics and froics.
Harvest All the Year.
Australia, New Zealand and Chill
reap their wheat crops with sickle
in January. The be-turganed swarthy
Egyptians NOW down the wheat with
iron scythes in February In India the.
harvest is in March with the scythe
and sickle as thousand years ago.
The Mexican and Cuban reaps in April
The states of Texas and Florida clear
Sheir fields With modern reapers and
harvesters late in May. Portugal,
France and California follow, and in
Austria-Hungary, south of Russia,
Canada, Sweden, Norway and the
great winter and spring wheat regions
of the United States the harvest is in
July, August and September The
women in northern Russia with the
aid of scythe ami sickle harvest their
Africa in November Argentine. the
young. vigorous and alert sister re-
public of ours, comes last on the list
and harvets its wheat crop in Deem
Der
This implies that while wheat is
sprouting in the fields of the United
States the crop is being harvested in
india: that While the American crop
is passing through midwinter under
snow covering the agricuiturist in
Argentina is preparing to reap the
ripened grain i'll the fields; that when
the cultivators of Austria and Hungary
are gathering grain, their brothers in
Australia and New Zealand are en-
gagged in sowing
Effect on Market.
This also means that somewhere in
Che world, during all months OF tine
year. wheat and other staple grains
are approaching the marketing stage,
70 enter into competition With the
grain grown i'll our own country. Not
all the foreign farmers are able 10 real
lie full value for their crop. Through
one reason Or another some are oblig-
ed TO sell for less than its actual value.
and such transactions not only hurt
chem but the pocket-books of agritur-
1Sts of the United States. The set
pack which the farmer receives in dis
sant India, Russia or Argentina, in
measure, tells on the agriculturist in
Che United States; for the farmer of all
these different countries send their
quota to the worlds markets.
ftVom the facts in the department
Of agriculture it is evident tina; the
farmers Of some countries are left
half-starved even at harvest time. In
The United States, Canada and MANY OF
Soa continental countries the a,ricul-
tural community is prosperous; hu n
I number of Asiatic lands and il, Rus
STA, the lot of the Agriculture; is hard
he is virtually living year and year
Out on the verge of starvation, be-
cause i'll the grip OF the money-lender,
who forces him to sell his crop in many
cases while it is standing on the land.
In Russia and India, for instance, the
farmer is so indebted to the money
fender that he never is able to get
the real equity for his work in the
Fields. The grain secured from these
vanishing farmers at cut-throat prices
when exported, tends to lower the
prices of wheat and staples grown by
agriculturists in the other countries,
who supply the markets of the world
with their products.