. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . ting for them-selves. Field husking.—By far the greater part of the cornproduced, especially in the great corn belt, is husked inthe field from the standing stalks. This is the methodused when corn is raised for the grain, and the fodder, orstover, is a secondary consideration. Field husking is the cheapest and quickest way of secur-ing the grain. In good corn, from sixty to more than onehundred bushels a day can be gathered by one man with ateam, at a cost of from three to four cents a bushel. ]\Ia-chines for husking from the standing stalks
. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . ting for them-selves. Field husking.—By far the greater part of the cornproduced, especially in the great corn belt, is husked inthe field from the standing stalks. This is the methodused when corn is raised for the grain, and the fodder, orstover, is a secondary consideration. Field husking is the cheapest and quickest way of secur-ing the grain. In good corn, from sixty to more than onehundred bushels a day can be gathered by one man with ateam, at a cost of from three to four cents a bushel. ]\Ia-chines for husking from the standing stalks are also in useon many large farms. Corn can be picked by a huskingmachine at the rate of from seven to eight acres a day, and,where the acreage is large, at a cost per bushel slightly lessthan for hand picking. No machine yet invented does thehusking as satisfactorily as by hand. The machine missessome ears, breaks others, shells off more or less corn, andpulls up or breaks many stalks. The corn-picking machineis not always a complete Yield from one acre raised by a Douglas County, Illinois, cornclub boy, 130 bushels; three loads for market, one load for seed. ^-t^ ...-, h- .Jta ^^s *^ ^ v.^B B^ V-s-V m ^^^Si^ta WmmtLj^^ feji5h m L^-; :.>^A ^^^m^-fj- ^ ^ Corn harvester ut work. 52 AGRICULTURE One advantage of field husking is that the harvestingcan be delayed until the fall rush with other crops is ears should be well cured before being cribbed, orthere is danger of molding. This is especially true ifthe fall and winter should happen to be warm and moist. Corn should be stored in well protected cribs. Theuse of rail or other forms of uncovered cribs is a sourceof great loss. The grain may seem to keep well duringthe winter in the open crib, but when shelled and sold tothe elevators in the spring it often heats and spoils. Thistends to reduce the price of corn, and has caused a preju-dice in European countries against American corn as afood. No rain
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