Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1914-09-17
GREATEST IN HISTORY
WoapERFuL WELD or WHEAT
FIELDS or UNITED STATES.
Never Has Any Nation Growr Such q
Crop As That Which IL New Ne
ING Garnered--Foo 10 Feed
Hair the World.

The mind Of man cannot conceive
absolute silence. remarks tho phila-
delphla North American. Yet In this
very state--the absolute silence or
growth--does nature clothe field, vale
and forest. providing FOR al liying
creatures the wherewithai 70 sustain
life.
The stiffness OF death attends the
bursting OF the acorn, whose strength,
silently developed, shall form tbs
shelter OF the home or the invaluable
spoke OF the wheels Of trade or the
ribs Of the stout young ship. No
sprouting seed, no opening bud. ever
has breathed sound.
Far from human habitAtions, where
neither roof nor spse points skyward,
I'm the dead calm Of a MINDLESS noon,
the keenest ear hurried 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 q thou.
sand tones: and even the Fentlest fail
of rain proelaims it's blessings. but
Frowththe 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 pIowed and narrowed soil the cheat
silently has risen from grain to gold.
And now, In the glow OF SUMMERS
smile, goes out an army or men, horses
and machines larger than any that
ever marched to fight for gain or
glory, 70 gather from these fields the
food that shall help feed halt the
world uatil, In the mysterious cycle OF
seasons. comes again the time for this
nfeIaden siiencei
Out where the sun but yesterday
lighted q sweep OF plains couraed BY
herds Of buffalo and rowing bands OF
American Indians the vanguard OF this
mighty force In 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 II 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
have swung the last bundle into the
shock young Uncle Sam may stand On
his highest hin and, forming q trum.
pet Of his calloused sunburnt banda.
shout to world that must eat three
times A day, Nine hundred million
bushels. and all is WELT" .ss
Never before I'm the history OF the
world has any nation grown such q
crop Of wheat. Five years ago Russia.
with an acreage one-third larger came
within III, 00O, 600 bushelr OF this pro-
digious total Our own next largest
crop Yves 137.000,9o8 bushels short Of
the present food OF gold.
For moment. at least, we may turn
from the perplexitis of psychological
business depressions. graft-grown ma.
tionai backdowns and horrors OF war
to sweep with wnnder.propped eyes
this stretch Of wealth which gales TO
sickly hue the brayest dreams - the
brave admiral who daree nncharted
seas 70 find another sort OF gold.