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Show harvesting corn. risa Tliat Mm Bar. Ijlor ami Pre- ""' "" "r CorB r"l''i While the Inventors of ban eating cucnlnes aro making successful progress lo constructing machinery drawn by worses for cutting tho corn crop, tho freat majority of tho corn Holds in tho country at large are still Imnostedby "leans of hand labor, and tho following I !3!ttons from Tho Conntry Oentlo- I n aro offered withnUowto nbridgo I "Uor and prevent much of the existing I e!. fr.,lw n(Me" eiposuroof the I corn fodden I , ? pfctlco of planting corn in u 1 In ,i ,ml ' T lfgely pursued, and crslnl. W' ''I C"0UK1' "n'1"'0 eryn U wtl) hardeued it ir cut by hand nnd secured )n shocks. Those romain toveral weeks till tho icison arrives for knslelng nnd stacking, during which timo tho sho.ks aro oxposed to storms, ind n irtion of them are beaten down, inaked with rain nnd rotted td us to bo of llttlo value for foildcr. A reason for m""M o"',"o o ' I .. I ,l p......v t; A iir.uu.Ait 8Bii si i on kiiockimi ronx, this waste Is tho ono sided w ay in whli li tho shocks aro built. Instead of placing tho stalks in an equal circle nround tho tenter, they nro often j laced nearly all on ono sldo, pressing them mora or lew out of tho renter, giving tho shocks a ono uiied tendency mil entirely prostrating pros-trating n portion of them. Thlswasto could bo prevented by tilling tho neces sary euro to build them with equal ml-ditlons ml-ditlons on ever) ttdo nnd thus giving them n firmly erect inisitlon. A regular system of cutting each thock can bo adopteil, cuing timo and libor, which tho nccomtuiijlng figure ta&y explain. The fill 1 is cut by taking fivoronsof hills nt n time and pladug the shocks In tho centtr one. Twenty. fi o hills will innko ono thock, thn center cen-ter being tho lint taken) all thu others aro cut nnd placed nronnd it. If tho corn li of n largo variety, threo hlltj will Ik) ns much ns the orator w 111 hold In tho grasp of his left arm while he cuts them with Ms right hand and places the m ngnlnst tho forming shock. In the figure tlio shock Is large r nnd in tho center, nnd the first three hills are those indicated by tho litters AAA, carried to the shock on tho elottfd lino. Tho noxt threo nro II 11 1), cut and placed beside the others. Knch successlvo three aro marked by tlio letters COC, ddd, i:nn, rrr.aucinnd nun, nnd being taken nnd cut lu this regular order ILiywIH be plaieil In separate positions equally all nround tho shock, nnd the laborer can hardly at old making mak-ing it equally upright. This system will nbridgo steps nnd make the work uincli eatlir thnu cutting cut-ting nt random. As oviry shock ro-quires ro-quires tho same order tho operator soon becomes accuatoned to it and works rap idly. Tlio snmo general courso w 111 ni-ply ni-ply to larger shocks or to thow nudo of smaller com. With slight modification it will apply to com in drills. The nr-rows nr-rows show tho direction for tho ojiorntor to work. In making a slnglo shock, If tho hills aro three nnd n linlf feet apart, It will require about ten rodi walking, anl tor a field of n hundred shocks more than three miles, whllo with an Irregular inoilo, without) stem, set i nil miles would bo rcqnlred. Having the fodder wonld bo still more important, making ull the dtftcrcncu bctwe-vn such ns Is fresh, green un 1 uninjured, and that which Is deitro)cd by prostration and rotting w ltli rains. |
