Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . the corn binder has a decided advantage, for withit three men and two teams can put seven acres into the shock in oneday, while by the hand method one acre per man is considered a fairdays work; thus a man is able to cut and shock twice as much by theuse of the corn binder as against hand methods. The life of a corn binder will be good for i,ooo acres. The firstcost is about $125. Allowing $50 for repairs, it will amount to $175. ^ durableor
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . the corn binder has a decided advantage, for withit three men and two teams can put seven acres into the shock in oneday, while by the hand method one acre per man is considered a fairdays work; thus a man is able to cut and shock twice as much by theuse of the corn binder as against hand methods. The life of a corn binder will be good for i,ooo acres. The firstcost is about $125. Allowing $50 for repairs, it will amount to $175. ^ durableor on the basis of 1,000 acres the machine cost will be about 20 cents implementper acre. Allowing $ per day for men, $ per day for eachteam, and about 50 cents per acre for twine, the approximate cost of 372 CORN. cutting and shocking by hand and with a corn binder for one day will be as follows : Binder. Hand. Three men $ $ Two teams 3-00 Twine 4-5<^ Machine wear Board for men Totals $ $ Acres cut 9 3 Average cost per acre This shows a saving of about 52 cents per acre in favor of the (Courtesy Iiiterniitioiial Harvester Company.) Fig. 136. Corn Harvester and to cut and shock corn fodder with a minimum of labor. While the saving is not so noticeable it will be seen that the moreconvenient condition the fodder is in for handling will reduce the com-parative cost in preparing for feeding later on in the season. SHOCKING CORN FODDER. 373 Shocks should be of good size Method of shocking SHOCKING OF FODDER CORN. Much loss is usually en-tailed by shocking corn fodder in a careless, slipshod manner. It is acommon sight to see from 25 to 75 per cent of the shocks in a fieldnodding their heads and sprawling about upon the ground. Suchwork is due to carelessness and may be easily overcome. Shocksshould be made of good size so that little loss from leaching andweathering is entailed. It is best to have two men w
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