We didn't get a very good catch." "We can't do better than to stay by White Sonora and Propo," remarked Harran.

"We've got our best results with that, and European millers like it to mix with the Eastern wheats that have more gluten than ours.

That is, if we have any wheat at all next year." A feeling of discouragement for the moment bore down heavily upon him.
At intervals this came to him and for the moment it was overpowering.
The idea of "what's-the-use" was upon occasion a veritable oppression.
Everything seemed to combine to lower the price of wheat.

The extension of wheat areas always exceeded increase of population; competition was growing fiercer every year.

The farmer's profits were the object of attack from a score of different quarters.