. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 84 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE device is called a "corn ; Any boy who can use a saw and hammer can make one in a short time. To make it, saw a 2 X 4, or better, a 4 x 4 off five or six feet long. To the bottom end of this spike a plank about 12 inches square, to form a base sufficiently large so the tree will stand firmly erect on the floor. It is well to put some short braces from the edges of the plank up to the 4 x 4 to stiffen it. A row of finishing nails, nails with small heads, are driven in each side, of the 4x4 and about 23^ inches
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 84 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE device is called a "corn ; Any boy who can use a saw and hammer can make one in a short time. To make it, saw a 2 X 4, or better, a 4 x 4 off five or six feet long. To the bottom end of this spike a plank about 12 inches square, to form a base sufficiently large so the tree will stand firmly erect on the floor. It is well to put some short braces from the edges of the plank up to the 4 x 4 to stiffen it. A row of finishing nails, nails with small heads, are driven in each side, of the 4x4 and about 23^ inches apart. An ear of corn is easily stuck on each nail by jamming it on butt first. The nail sticks into the pith of the corn cob. This tree may be placed in the attic or any other convenient place where the corn will be kept dry. If the tree is six feet high, it will hold about 100 ears, or enough to plant about five acres. If one wishes to put more corn on the tree, the corners of the 4x4 may be beveled off, making it eight-sided. There will then l)e room for eight rows of corn. Thus a tree six feet high will hold 200 ears. It is well to plane the 4x4 smooth, so that numbers may be placed at the base of each nail, thus making it easy to number the ears, if one wishes to test each ear for germination. The double string method is like- wise a very practical means of putting up seed corn. Take a piece of bind- ing twine about fourteen feet long. Tie the two ends together. Then string up the corn as indicated in Figure 35. The strings with from ten to fourteen ears of corn in each are easily handled and may be hung from the rafters or other convenient Figure 34.—A simple device for putting up seed corn to 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 Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875- [from old catalog
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