Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . ^ Figs. 35 and 36.—The cutting and shocking of corn is the common practice in thedairy States of the North and in Ohio, northeastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and mostof Virginia and Maryland, also in the eastern Ozark region of Missouri. Cutting beginsthroughout this entire area between September 1 and 21, and is general from Iowa east-ward to New York, Tennessee, and Virginia during the last 10 days of September. Inthe hill lands of New England and New York, in northern Wisconsin and from Iowanorthward, westward, and so
Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . ^ Figs. 35 and 36.—The cutting and shocking of corn is the common practice in thedairy States of the North and in Ohio, northeastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and mostof Virginia and Maryland, also in the eastern Ozark region of Missouri. Cutting beginsthroughout this entire area between September 1 and 21, and is general from Iowa east-ward to New York, Tennessee, and Virginia during the last 10 days of September. Inthe hill lands of New England and New York, in northern Wisconsin and from Iowanorthward, westward, and southward it is general between September 10 and 20. Thedotted line on the small corner map shows where the beginning of cutting and shockingof corn occurs, on the average, at the same time as the beginning of seeding of winterwheat. i Seasonal Work on Farm Crops. 31. Figs. 37 and 38.—The small insert map (fig. 38) shows in \^-hat. part of tho InitedStates it is the common method to husk or jerk corn from the standing stalks. Thisoperation begins in the Southern States during September (in central Texas^ andFlorida during August) and Ix-comes general during October. In the heart ot thecorn belt husking from the standing stalk begins during the latter part of Octoberand continues into December. The amount of labor reration. asshown Uy records from Iowa and Illinois is :ibout G hours of man labor and I:.* hoursof horse labor per acre. The stalks are plowed under later in the fall or in thespring. Little transient seasonal labor is employed in the culture of corn. 32 Seedtime and Harvest.
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