LETTERS: WHICH WINDOW HAS FARMER'S PAYCHECK?

To the editor:

Last week a farmer's wife commented in Speak Out on farm problems, generally unknown to dweller in cities and large towns. The good woman omitted one current problem: namely, dry weather.

The farmer has worked hard preparing the soil, planting or sewing the seed, cultivating the corn, soybeans, milo and so forth. The heat index is on the high rise. Day after day, the barren clouds have, up to the time of this writing, passed overhead.

Despite the drought, people in the city and town go to a pay window to pick up their paychecks. Unless he has other income, like a dairy herd or the sale of cattle or hogs, to which window will the farmer go to pick up his check?

Something to consider, isn't it? This questions does not come from a farmer. However, my childhood and summers of my youth were spent on a farm. Memory has its own definite way of leaving imprints.

The REV. WALTER W. KEISKER

Cape Girardeau