When Uncle Silas and Aunt Mollie came west thirty years ago, this country was just bleak prairie and one could travel miles without seeing a sign of human life. They lived in a mover's wagon while building a sod house. After three years they built a four-room house and they were as proud as kings. As fast as they made any money they bought more land, so now they own miles of this wonderful country. It is great to see the threshing machines out here. They mow down those wheat heads just as the great machine guns across the sea mow down the armies. Some of these machines are drawn by twenty or thirty horses, and it takes as good a horseman to handle all of those horses as to do chariot races at a circus. One of these threshers comes along through the grain like a great giant, and with its huge claws and arms and feet, it cuts the wheat, threshes it, puts it into bags, and weighs it. The grain is shipped to some city and stored in enormous elevators until it is sold to the millers to be made into flour. Uncle Silas says that the life of the modern farmer is far from "slow." There is something doing every minute, and when he looks out over those fields of waving wheat and realizes that he is growing enough food there to keep thousands of people happy and healthy, he would not exchange places with anyone. [Illustration: Seeding Bonanza Farming WHEAT FIELDS OF NORTH DAKOTA Threshing] [Illustration: BIRDSEYE VIEW BERRY BROTHERS, Inc., DETROIT FACTORIES In 1858 Thomas and Joseph H. Berry, then young men of Detroit, made their first kettle of varnish. The first batch was thirty gallons. It was good honest varnish, and so from that this business grew. The industry at the beginning was small. Today, we occupy 43 buildings, covering seven acres. With the growth of the business the fame of Berry Brothers' Varnishes, and other products has spread to every corner of the civilized world. Instead of the little 30 gallon kettle, we now have 45 kettles with a capacity of 11,500 gallons. The Company has a storage capacity of 1,250,000 gallons. BERRY BROTHERS (INCORPORATED) World's Largest Varnish Makers] [Illustration: Animals in the Park YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Giant Geyser Yellowstone Falls Eagle Nest Rock Cleopatra Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs]