The sign along Kansas Highway 56 reads:
Pesky Rabbits
SWEET CORN
Follow the Signs (with an arrow pointing north)
600 Doz Sold
It’s mid-morning, and the distinctive sound of ears of corn being stripped from the stalk are coming from the field to the north of the house. The sound of an old Massey Harris 65 tractor fires up by the machine shed to the east.
Cynthia McIrvin is backing the tractor up to change implements before heading out to the field. Meanwhile her younger sister, Gwendolyn, continues to harvest corn from one of the eight plots that were planted for the summer.
The McIrvin sisters, Cynthia, 20, and Gwendolyn, 18, have come from Colorado to help their grandfather Ted harvest and sell the sweet corn at his farm north of Lehigh. According to Cynthia, her grandfather started growing corn 11 years ago to help him slow the a effects of muscular disease.
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