Honor the Farmers Who Feed Us!
Who has raised this food? The farmers!
Bravely, steadily. We lean
All of us, upon the farmers
And their faith and optimism,
On their wits and their toil.
When the Mertens came from Quincy,
John and Herman, long ago,
They brought farmers to the future,
Herman, Jr., as the eldest of the brothers. Merten
Children here, How-do-you-do for all the farmers.
Once they walked clear to Clay Center,
Walking only on their own land.
Walls of corn are our defenses.
Wheat the golden recompenses,
Wheat and corn will feed the restless.
Comment
Since food is an essential item in everyone's life, then the farmers who rely on their faith in the future to
produce the food deserve special recognition.
Brothers Herman and John Merten, born in Quincy, Illinois to Herman and Carolyn Merten, came to Kansas in 1879.
"How-do-you-do" was once a friendly greeting as common as "Hello" is today, but has faded from use.
This probably means that the tall wheat and corn now surround the village much as defense walls do in Europe.