Visualize the first breaking of the field in the spring, the
preparation of the soil for sowing, bringing of the seed corn from
winter storage, the planting, cultivating, and growth of the crop.
Watch the ripening, the cutting, shocking, husking, hauling and storing
into barns.
Now follow the corn to the mill and through the processes of
manufacture until it arrives on the table as corn flakes, syrup or corn
bread.
Do this with the other crops. Follow the wheat until it is bread. The
buckwheat to the steaming hot cakes. The same can be done with the
stock on stock farms. The different kinds of farming can be used for
variety. The great wheat farms present different pictures from the
usual diversified ones.
The fruit orchard presents an interesting picture to work with. The
spraying, the cultivating, irrigating, and all the process from the
blossoming to the picking, sorting, packing, transportation and sale.
This same plan can be followed with all industries and manufacture of
any article. Take the ore from the mine to the steel in the building
or battleship. The oil from the well to gasoline in the auto tank. The
automobile from metal, wood, leather and rubber to the picnic in the
woods.