A favourite poem for American children begins When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock.” It describes the countryside throughout most of the rural areas of the United States. To the farmer who must gather the corn from brown ripened stalks standing in shocks and carry in the pumpkins in the month of October, it is a season of long but pleasant working days. Here a horse-drawn wagon is loaded with ears of ripened corn. The two farmers working alongside the wagon, rip the ears of corn from the stalks and toss them into the wagon. In the background frostnipped trees shed their red and gold leaves. Autumn is a time of mellow satisfaction to the farmer. He sees his crops laid by and views the harvest of his year’s work.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4340, 6 October 1950, Page 9

A favourite poem for American children begins When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock.” It describes the countryside throughout most of the rural areas of the United States. To the farmer who must gather the corn from brown ripened stalks standing in shocks and carry in the pumpkins in the month of October, it is a season of long but pleasant working days. Here a horse-drawn wagon is loaded with ears of ripened corn. The two farmers working alongside the wagon, rip the ears of corn from the stalks and toss them into the wagon. In the background frostnipped trees shed their red and gold leaves. Autumn is a time of mellow satisfaction to the farmer. He sees his crops laid by and views the harvest of his year’s work.