Show Mechanical ec anica Picker icker er Dooms Husking us in Bee ee To 0 Romantic oman is Past as 1 I AUDUBON IOWA The The familiar 1 thud of corn against the wagon bang boards is being relegated to the romantic romantic romantic ro ro- I mantic past on Iowa farmlands as the machine age muscles in on old- old I fashioned corn husking bee and corn husking contests Romanticists notwithstanding g man cant can't compete with the machine machine machine ma ma- chine when it comes to picking corn and as a result those popular pastimes pastimes pastimes pas pas- times of the past are being dis dis- dis- dis carded A two-row two corn picker can harvest harvest harvest har har- vest to bushels a day while a aman aman aman man working alone can pick only 80 to bushels Mechanical corn pickers are becoming increasingly available to do the harvesting job in inthe inthe inthe the tall corn state j The number of machines has tripled tripled tripled tri tri- pled since 1939 when there were I mechanical corn pickers to harvest nine million acres of corn Now it is estimated there are more than pickers an average of one machine for every acres of ot corn Despite the invasion of mechanical cal pickers Elmer G. G Carlson king of the nations nation's corn huskers in 1935 and now owner of a hybrid seed corn company here doesn't believe I the corn husking contest is gone forever t Corn husking is a farm sport and 1 mechanical pickers do not detract i from the of the time old-time contests Carlson contends He the believes husking contests would be as popular as ever His brother Varl whom he dethroned as national champion agrees that the national contests should be re re- But even the former national champions have given way to the machine age Both use mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- pickers in their own cornfields |