There Is Not a Month in the Year That Does Not Find Several Nations
Sending Reapers Into Fields of Golden Grain.
There is a procession of seed-time, blossom, and fruit around the globe
which never ends. It is harvest-time on the earth at every time of year,
just as there is always sunlight shining somewhere and always darkness
somewhere else.
January sees harvest ended in most districts in Australia and New
Zealand, while the people of Chile and other countries of southern
South America are just beginning to reap the fruits of their toil.
Upper Egypt and India begin and continue harvest through the months of
February and March.
April enlarges the number with harvest in Syria, Cyprus, coast of
Egypt, Mexico, Cuba, Persia, and Asia Minor.
May is a busy time in Central Asia, Persia, Algeria, Morocco, southern
Texas, Florida, China, and Japan.
June calls forth the harvest in California, Oregon, southern United
States, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Turkey, Danubian
States, southern France, Greece, and Sicily.
July sees harvest in England, Nebraska, Switzerland, Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana, Minnesota, Upper Canada, northern France, Germany, Austria,
and Poland.
August continues the gathering in the British Isles, France, Germany,
Belgium, Holland, Manitoba, Lower Canada, Denmark, and Russia.
September rules northern Scotland, southern parts of Sweden and
Norway, as well as the cold islands of the North Sea.
October is the harvest month for corn in America and for hardy
vegetables in northern Sweden, Norway, and Ireland.
In November harvest times begin in South Africa, Patagonia, and South
Australia.