Janelle Woith: Not a Tonnage

On the hold-by day for a sample nobody is paid on, Janelle checks an eleven-dollar box and finds potassium in Gary's tile water: the dryer ash left a trail. Expired bottles from the walk-in put it on five of fourteen fields. Kuhl lets her file it only as information, not a request. She tells Gary in his machine shed that the ash is on his ground, the mill blames farmer potash, the co-op says zero, and the determination slides past Christmas.