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...Small children all share the common desire to spend just one summer back home in Missouri. "I don't expect I'd like it much," Byron admits, "but I'd sure like to see what it's like." Many children who inhabit the wheat belt have a secret desire to spend a summer roaming from state to state with the cutters. The Smalls each year employ 14 hired boys (including Byron). The members of the crew live in motel rooms, paid for by the Smalls, eat bountifully of the well-prepared home cooking around the tables...
Working summers cutting wheat and October through Christmas harvesting soybeans in Mississippi, the family should gross nearly $400,000. But on-the-road expenses gobble up more than a third of that. The bank, which holds mortgages on $100,000 worth of trucks, takes...
...wheat prices rise or fall according to world supply. Last year wheat was plentiful, and the prices sank to $2 a bushel...
Farmers around Circle were discouraged by that, and many of them plowed their wheat under rather than pay to have it harvested. This year there is a big U.S. crop, but also Government supports and the hope of a heavy overseas sale. The price is $3 a bushel, not enough to turn a farmer's thoughts to a new Mercedes, but enough to turn a slight profit...
...weather in Montana, all over the wheat belt in fact, has been miraculously moist. Around Circle, Jessie has been cutting 50-bushel-an-acre wheat. Wheat that good bends the stalks and lies close to the ground looking like the matted coat of a golden-haired dog. Heavy wheat is hard to cut, though. The combine has to move slowly, with its cutting head close to the ground. "Ease it up, Roger. Ease it up," radios Jessie to one of his combine drivers. "You're blowing too much grain out of the back." At only $3 a bushel, farmers...