Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1914-09-17
GREATEST IN HISTORY
woNpERFuL YIELD or WHEAT
FIELDS or UNITED STATES.
Never Has Any Nation Grown Such .
Crop A That Which IL Now g
Ina Gaarnered---Food TO Feed
naif the World.

The mind or man cannot ccnceive |
absolute silence. remarks the Phfla-
deiphia North American. Yet In this
very state-~-the absolute silence OF
growth--doem nature closhe field, yale
and forest, providing for all living
creatures the Hhsrewithai 10 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
sprouting seed, no opening bud ever
has breathed b sound
Far from human habitafions. where
neither roof nor spiwe points skyward,
I'M the dead calm OF MINDLESS noon,
the keenest ear kDried In Gods green
carpet of grass can catch no sound OF
movement The brook sings and the
sen mutters or shouts; the wind
makes known it's presence In q thou,
sand tones; and even the gentleHt fall
OF rain proclaims fts blessings, but
growth-~the ever new manifestation
OF creatioa~-has yet TO be heard.
For months this silence pregnant
with power and plenty has brocded
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 hatf the
world until, In the mysterious cycle Of
seasons. comes again the time for this
life.laden siiencei
Out where tbs sun but yesterday
lighted sweep OF plains coursed by
herds of buffalo and rowing bands OF
American Indians the vanguard OF this
mighty force In Mt work. The call OF
Kansas and Oklahoma has echoed
through the states. and regiment after
regiment Of men hungry for work has
| answered. M-
Often before has this same call been
sounded. but never as this year. For
never In the history of men and fields
hiss the silence borne fruit of such
| bounty. asl#f.
| 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 gtatee.
And when these and the others In
which the rest OF our wheat Ia grown
have swung the last bundle into the
shock young Uncle Sam may stand on
his highest Hill and, forming a trurn.
| pet of his cailoused, suEsarut hands,
shout to o world that must eat three
times day, Nine hundred million
bushels. and all Ii Welt" :.
Never before I'm the history Of tie
wcrld has any nation grown suci. q
crop of wheat. Five years ago Russia.
with an acreage one-thsrd larger, came
within $4,000, 900 bushels OF this pro.
digious total Our own next largest
crop was 1877 100000 bushels short Of
the present food Of gold.
For moment, at least. We may turn
from the perplex.ti~a of psychological
business depresaions. grastgrowH ma
tional backdowns and horrors OF war
to sweep with wander propped eyes
| this stretch OF wealth which paies &c
sickly hue the bravest dreams Of tbs
brave admiral who dared uncharsed
seas 10 find another sort OF gold.
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