Sun - Burn
" It's another colour now ": within a few baking days the wheats, still in the " yallery-greenery" state, were converted into a rich bronze or, if you will, old gold. A field of oats within my compass went white, not in a single night, but in two days or so. Colour is evidence of quality. English wheat has always been too much belittled in the markets because of its (alleged) lack of " strength," that is because it contains more moisture than "Manitoba Hard," toasted into dry solidity by the long hours of the Northern sun. It has never been taken as a compensa- tion that its flavour is greater if its milling quality is less. As a people we are wont to neglect, if not despise, flavour in food. Cider could taste more certainly of the apple if the public did not demand absolute clarity, and assuredly white bread is vastly inferior in savour to bread in which the germ remains. Even in strawberries the best-lookers are preferred before the tasters, so to say. The hot suns have saved some of the hay crops, and those who have used the tripod system have enjoyed singular successes. If the corn harvest, already well-begun, can be safely gathered in, it will certainly be bumper ; and though labour is lamentably short in many districts, machines have been multiplied and forms specially designed for smaller fields.
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