The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-11-06
GREATEST In HISTORY
WONDERFUL YIELD OF WHEAT
FIELDS OF UNITED STATES.
Never Has Any Nation Grown Such a
Crop As That Which Is Now Be-
Ing Garnered-Food to Feed
Half the World.

The mind of man cannot conceive
absolute silence, remarks the Phila-
delphia North American. Yet in this
very state-the absolute silence of
growth-does nature clothe field, vale
and forest, providing for all living
creatures the wherewithal to sustain
life
The stiffness of death attends the
bursting of the acorn, whose strength.
silently developed, shall form the
shelter of the home or the invaluable
spoke of the wheels of trade or the
ribs of the stout young ship. No
sproutfng seed, no opening bud, ever
has breathed sound
Far from human habitations, where
neither roof nor spire points skyward,
in the dead calm of a MINDLESS noon,
the keenest ear buried in Gods green
carpet of grass can catch no sound of
movement The brook sings and the
sea mutters or shouts; the wind
makes known its presence in a thou
sand tones; and even the gentlest fall
Of rain proclaims its blessings, but
growth-the ever new manifestation
OF creation-has yet to be heard
For months this silence pregnant
with power and plenty has brooded
over countless fields in this good land
of ours. On more than 100000 acres
of plowed and narrowed soil the wheat
silently has risen from grain to gold.
And now, in the glow of summers
smile, goes out an army Of men, horses
and machines larger than any that
ever marched to fight for gain or
glory, to gather from these fields the
food that shall help feed half the
world until, in the mysterious cycle of
seasons, comes again the time for this
life-laden silencei
Out where the sun but yesterday
lighted a sweep of plains coursed by
herds Of buffalo and rowing bands of
American Indians the vanguard of this
mighty force is at work. The call of
Kansas and Oklahoma has echoed
through the states, and regiment after
regiment of men hungry for work has
answered
Often before has this same call been
sounded, but never as this year. For
never in the history of men and fields
has the silence borne fruit of such
bounty.
Through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois,
Ohio and Pennsylvania it shall spread
and then on to Michigan, Minnesota, !
Nebraska, North Dakota and Washing
ton. These are the high IL among the !
wheat states.
And when these and the others in
which the rest of our wheat is grown J
have swung the last bundle into the
shock young Uncle Sam may stand on I
his highest hill and, forming trum- !
pet of his calloused, sunburnt hands,
shout to world that must eat three
times a day, mine hundred million
bushels, and all is WE'LL"
Never before in the history of the
world has any nation grown such
crop of wheat. Five years ago Russia.
with an acreage one-third larger, came /,
within 117,00O,000 bushels of this pro-
dfgfous total Our own next largest /
crop was 1877, 100000 bushels short of
the present flood of gold.
For moment, at least, we may turn
from the perplexities of psychological
business depressions, graft-grown ma
tional backdowns and horrors of war
to sweep with wonder-propped eyes
his stretch Of wealth which pales to
ickIy hue the bravest dreams of the
braves admiral who dared uncharted I
seas to find another sort of gold.