Chapter I: Front Matter

HIRAM IN THE MIDDLE WEST

OR

_A YOUNG FARMER'S UPWARD STRUGGLE_

BY BURBANK L. TODD

AUTHOR OF "HIRAM THE YOUNG FARMER."

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

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BACK TO THE SOIL SERIES

By BURBANK L. TODD

_12mo. Cloth. Illustrated._

HIRAM THE YOUNG FARMER
Or, Making the Soil Pay

HIRAM IN THE MIDDLE WEST
Or, A Young Fanner's Upward Struggle

(Other Volumes in Preparation)

GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY, NEW YORK

CONTENTS

I. THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID OF RATS

II. A KERNEL OF WHEAT

III. INVENTOR'S LUCK

IV. SUNNYSIDE

V. THE TERRIBLE MISS PRINGLE

VI. FARMING AND FURBELOWS

VII. SEED TESTING

VIII. THE BLUEBIRD

IX. ORRIN POST

X. A FRIEND INDEED

XI. FRICTION

XII. WORK BEGINS

XIII. WHEAT

XIV. YANCEY BATTICK'S STORY

XV. THE COUNTRY DANCE

XVI. TROUBLE WITH TURNER'S BULL

XVII. WHEAT HARVEST

XVIII. THE BABY TORNADO

XIX. DISASTER THREATENS

XX. A BARGAIN

XXI. A PARTNERSHIP IS FORMED

XXII. A STRANGER APPEARS

XXIII. AN INQUIRY

XXIV. SOCIETY

XXV. A VISIT AND A PEST

XXVI. THE FIGHT FOR THE WHEAT

XXVII. DAY DREAMS

XXVIII. CORN AND COMPARISONS

XXIX. EXPLOITING THE WHEAT

XXX. KING CORN

XXXI. WHO IS THEODORE CHESTER?

XXXII. LOOKING AHEAD

ILLUSTRATIONS

The two teams cleaned up the Sunnyside cornpatch in a week.

Orrin ... flung the cape over the bull's head

Two of his helpers had to hold the ladder steady while the other handed him the end of the wire cable

Everybody about the place--even Sister--worked in the wheat fields

HIRAM IN THE MIDDLE WEST