THE STORY OF BREAD 



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corners of the earth which for ages have stood still — 

 waiting to be fed. 



To follow the harvest year round the world, be- 

 gin in January in the Argentine and New Zealand; 

 in February go to East India, Upper Egypt, and 

 Chili, and then stay there till the end of March; with 

 April, drop down into Lower Egypt, Asia Minor, and 

 cross over to Mexico; May will shift to Algiers, Cen- 

 tral Asia, China, Japan, and Texas; and in June the 

 binder is at work not only in the fields of Turkey, 

 Spain, and Southern France, but in California, where 

 big machines are pulled by twenty horses or gaso- 

 line tractors, and in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, 

 Kansas, Utah, and Missouri; hot July is the busy 

 month in the North of France, Roumania, Austria- 

 Hungary, Southern Russia and England, Germany, 

 and Switzerland, and, returning to America, in 

 Oregon, Nebraska, Southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, 

 Colorado, Washington, the group of Central States, 

 New York, New England, and Eastern Canada; 

 August is a little more quiet, but still plenty to do 

 in Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland, 

 the Dakotas, and Western Canada, aptly termed 

 "the bread basket of the world;" September brings 

 harvest days to Scotland, Sweden, Norway, and 

 Northern Russia and Siberia, where some day 

 enough wheat will be raised to feed the people of the 

 earth; October continues the harvest scenes of these 

 countries; November is divided between South 



