Wheat and Woman.

Cover -- Contents -- PART I: HARVEST HOME -- 1 Of agricultural equipment, horses, and hired men -- 2 The custom of deferred payment - a prairie storm -- 3 A vagabond garden -- 4 Of harvest, wages, the cost of implements and plant -- 5 Threshing -- 6 Wheat sales - the fall of the leaf - Le Bret -- 7 Friends and acquaintances in Fort Qu'Appelle -- 8 Winter quarters - Springbrook school - a political meeting -- 9 At home by the lake shore - of Canadian diversion -- 10 Nancy - the second payment - the first loss -- PART II: SPRING -- 1 A daughter of the prairie - the coming of Nancy -- 2 The mirage of spring - my first chore-boy - a new horse and a new man - seeding -- 3 Chore-boys - 'the beautiful necessity' - the story of a plough -- 4 Dairy-produce - fencing - milking - gardening - Victoria Day -- 5 An Irishman's fortune - stoning the land -- 6 The rains of June - haying - harvest -- 7 The harvest of my first seeding -- PART III: WINTER -- 1 Of fuel and fear - the end of the year -- 2 Preparing seed-grain - newcomers -- 3 The seeding month - the coming of Felicity -- 4 The land and the man -- 5 Shadow and scythe beneath the sword -- 6 Summer diversion - law and labour - Patrick O'Hara and Si Booth -- 7 The frozen harvest of 1907 -- 8 The day of reckoning - auf wiedersehen -- PART IV: THE TURN OF THE TIDE -- 1 The seed - the passing of a prairie fire -- 2 The blade - the ear - the full corn -- 3 Sales, mortgage - 'a larger heaven'.

Wheat and Womanis a fascinating record of a gifted and determined woman's experience in prairie farming and a unique document in Canadian social history.

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