. Men and things . et the longdays work, the painstaking toil, and the grim struggleof the pioneers who first worked the land. We seldomthink of the planting and reaping year after year, theconstruction of transportation, the building of ware-houses, the venturing of money in mill-building, untilfinally were developed not only the vast farms but alsocities, railroads, wheat-carrying steamship lines, elevators,and the mills that go to make up the great bread-makingindustry. Only when the war interfered with the proc-esses and threatened to cut off the supply of wheat, didwe begin to realize how
. Men and things . et the longdays work, the painstaking toil, and the grim struggleof the pioneers who first worked the land. We seldomthink of the planting and reaping year after year, theconstruction of transportation, the building of ware-houses, the venturing of money in mill-building, untilfinally were developed not only the vast farms but alsocities, railroads, wheat-carrying steamship lines, elevators,and the mills that go to make up the great bread-makingindustry. Only when the war interfered with the proc-esses and threatened to cut off the supply of wheat, didwe begin to realize how important the wheat farm is tothe very life of the nation. If bread is the staff of life,wheat is the chief material out of which that staff ismade. Other grains when used for bread, as we areforced to use them to-day, are all substitutes for wheat. The Cane-Sugar Makers. If we travel in a directiona little east of south from the wheat-fields of Canada,we come to the great plantations of Louisiana and Mis- / •«. ?^^ m
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