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September
9, 1939
In the Stream, Cows Wait Jor Someone
to
Attend
to
Them
_ _..-:
I~
cows _expe.cUo
1remilked-.Lwic~
4aily
'-
g,~d ti~s. ]~Jeel
that the)' have-a-right
to
regUlar attention. But, during the harvest or haymaking seasons,
even the
co~men
become erratic.
They
are away up in" the meadows, tedp,ing-up
tne
nay.
- Like
a Constable paintiiig, the cows are
left
waiting
in
the water,
-
-
marvelling at the unpunctuality of men.
Now the leave$
of
the trees are already blushed with
autumn
tints.
The barns !lIe
full
with fresh hay. The
mown
litfds;-green"aSbi1liird
tiililes,-
n ....
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year's lambs
feeding
on the lattermath. The
farmer
is
wonder–
ing
if
he can fit in the time to invite a few shooting friends to
walk up th-e partridges feeding in the stubbles. The children
are coming home with their -mouths stained purple by the
first
blackberries. There are a -few mushrooms about. The
apples
are
coming on nicely: "The fall of the year
is
near. "
DOUGLAS MACDONALD HAsTINGS.
A Rick 'is
Made "
The haycart (right)
is
being unlozuIed on
io
the elevator
"
(left). The elevator
is
driven by the pony which
-
walks
. the centre.-
The Reaper and Binder in Action
The reaper and
binder
has taken much of the romance and beauty out of harvesting. But
it
has
added. greatly
to
its speed and e.fficiency. This complicated machine cuts t he corn
and binds
it
up into sheaves
in
one operation,
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