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Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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Women reap the harvest on the collective farms, for many men are dead or maimed. They laugh and talk, but seldom pause in their ivork. Farm women work from dawn till dusk So few men are left that peasant girls dance to-gether in their club when days work is done.And besides, the men are bashful, one told us.
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Harvest is the most important time of the year. Then no one isspared, for the Russians have known hunger, and destruction,and crop failure. In 1947 the harvest was good—better, theysaid, than any since 1941. The schools were let out. Everyperson who could walk was in the fields all day long. The womenbundled and tied the grain, and fed the threshing machines, andsome even drove tractors. The children picked cucumbers and tomatoes, and followedthe rakes, and picked up any stray stalk that had been missed.At the hoppers of the threshing machines, the children wereposted to save any grains of wheat or rye that might jump out ofthe sack, or fall from the canvas ground cloth. And little boystook care of the horses. In the evening, they stripped naked, androde the horses into the village ponds, and washed them. Thevillage cows and goats were cared for by little boys and girls.Early in the morning, they came in the road, and every farm-

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