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06/23/2003 Archived Entry: "HARVEST AND BASKETBALL"

HARVEST AND BASKETBALL

This may be the harvest to talk about for years to come if they can get it in. Summer dropped in and it's way too hot and windy for me, but it's the perfect kind of weather for a bountiful harvest. I hope it will continue until the last grain of wheat is in the bin.

Sixty and seventy bushel wheat is routine, according to farmers, but we heard of one who was cutting ninety bushels to the acre. Brit was saying in 1946 when he helped Fowler Sneath with his harvest the price at the elevator was $2.20 a bushel. A new self-propelled International combine cost $3,500 and Fowler bought two of them that year. Today wheat is $2.78 - $3.00 a bushel and a combine costs $130,000 to $150,000. Even with an extraordinary harvest, the price of wheat doesn’t seem to change very much. I don’t know how they manage.

Ellsworth High School basketball camp started today and I hear there was a lot of enthusiasm expressed by the players over the new coach and his style of play. He worked the socks off them and really provided a lot of direction. The kids liked that. I guess the coach can do a pretty good job on the court himself.

I've had a lot of phone calls and visitors today and the living room is full of daisies, Kansas gayfeathers and humorous birthday cards. There is a fresh lemon meringue pie in the kitchen made by the family specialist, top-of-the-line pie-baker and some great bacon-wrapped filets in the freezer for other times. It's been a very nice day and I'm enjoying it enormously.