. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 338 COBN CHOPS time, the cheapest way is to pull and load directly on wagons. When it must be pulled twice, that harvested the first time over is laid on the ground and covered with leaves. It is not possible to get a uniform grade in this way. Standard broom-corn is first " tabled " and the heads are then cut by hand. In tabling, one man passes backward. Fig. 118. — Threshing broom-corn seed heads or brush. between two rows, bending the stalks at a point
. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 338 COBN CHOPS time, the cheapest way is to pull and load directly on wagons. When it must be pulled twice, that harvested the first time over is laid on the ground and covered with leaves. It is not possible to get a uniform grade in this way. Standard broom-corn is first " tabled " and the heads are then cut by hand. In tabling, one man passes backward. Fig. 118. — Threshing broom-corn seed heads or brush. between two rows, bending the stalks at a point about 30 inches above the ground toward each other and across the row, so that the heads hang about two feet past the other row. Two men following cut off the heads and place them evenly, on every other table. Three men can harvest about two acres per day. Later, a team with a wagon passes over the empty tables and the brush is collected. Threshing and storing. — The heads are threshed directly from the field, or within a very few days after. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Montgomery, E. G. (Edward Gerrard), b. 1878. New York, Macmillan
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