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the mills and markets by the country boy. So 

 it is that city folk and country folk alike do not 

 fully understand the whole story of the industry. 

 We do not all realize that wheat is extensively 

 raised in countries where methods of production 

 are very different from ours. To some of us, 



FIG. 2. City view showing elevators and railroads. 



plowing carries a picture of a great steel machine 

 drawn by a traction engine ; to others the view 

 of a riding plow pulled by three horses is called to 

 mind. But many do not know that in parts of 

 Asia large fields are still prepared by crude wooden 

 plows pulled by oxen or camels. Threshing in the 

 Pacific Northwest is done by huge machines which 



