Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — KANSAS FARMERS ARE SAILORS [ARTICLE]

KANSAS FARMERS ARE SAILORS

Use Boats and Rafts to Harvest the j Wheat Crop. Topeka, Kan., special: Water is so high in Vermilion creek valley, twenty miles northwest of here, that the farmers are using boats and rafts to harvest their wheat. The wheat was in shocks when the flood came and the boats were used to bring the shocks and stacks to land. All -the men and boats near the scene of tho flood have been pressed into service.