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harvest excursion Hist. 
a low-fare railway trip for field-workers travelling to the West to harvest grain.
- 1925 "Why, us folks at the station knew there must have been a to-do of some kind when Neil Gordon went off on the harvest excursion the way he did."
- 1966 The wheels began to turn and the first Harvest Excursion got underway. The date was July 28, 1891.
- 1925 "Why, us folks at the station knew there must have been a to-do of some kind when Neil Gordon went off on the harvest excursion the way he did."