The strikebreakers were brought in to harvest the ripening crops and paid significantly higher wages than what Tule Lake inmates could earn.
They came in not from the north, which would have disturbed their ripening crops, but from the east, where the roads were good.
They feed on ripening crops such as those of Sorghum, grape and pearl millet.
Ahead were green and yellow fields of ripening crops, silver streams glittering in the sunlight, and the darker pools of the woods.
Now there was a sense of urgency about Peter Eversham's movements, crashing his way through the ripening crop, searching desperately for a clearing somewhere.
Harvest was still a few sennights away, and the orchards and fields were filled with ripening crops and the villagers who were tending to them.
The day was bright and clear-good weather for the ripening crops of the Merryvale farmers.
The farmers feared heavy rain that would crush their ripening crops.
Priests asked the gods to protect the ripening crops and increase their yield, while lovers wandered into the forest away from the firelight to act out private fertility rites.
If you scatter them through the wide fields, they will give you back fruitful harvests, and ripening crops.