| Show IN P ci 11 RUD f N f harvesting CORN 1 rian that will SAVO I 1 moor and nd arr lesil jet va tb or of corn rodt I 1 ot liler ler while the tha inventors of if hary harvesting esting are making successful esi 1 in n constructing machinery drawn by 1 horses lorbes for cutting tile corn crop the great arri at majority ity of the corn fields iu in ill the country at large are still harvested harvest edby by means ot of hand labor and the tha following suggestions from the country gentleman M are offered with av a view to abridge labor and prevent much of tho the exi itin waste by tho the needless need lebs 0 of the iho corn coni fodder the practice of 0 planting corn in 11 hills ills is still very lat gely put pui pursued sued and when hen the crop is ripe enough and the main grain i is s well hardened it is cut by hand and secured in fit shocks these remain several weeks till the season arrives for husking and stacking during which time the shocks are exposed to storms and a portion of them are beaten down soaked with rain and rotted s BO as to b be of little value for fodder A reason for t t IL M H 0 C G G 1 P w B 6 F if ia fa A C I 1 c c A al I 1 0 D 0 e E ea 7 A SYSTEM OR I SHOCKING CORN cons this waste is the ibe one sided way in winch which the shocks 3 are built inato id of placing the stalks in an equal circle around the center they aro are often placed nearly all on ono one side pressing them more orless or less out of the center giving the shocks a one sided ten tendency delicy aud entirely proa brating a portion of them this waste could be prevented by taking the necessary care to build them with equal additions on every side and thus giving theta them a firmly orect position A regular system of cutting each shock can be adopted saving time and labor which the accompanying figure afisu 0 may explain tho the field is cut loy by taking five rows ot hills at a time and placing tho the shocks in the center one hills will make ono one shock the ce center being tho the first taken all tile the others are cut colt and placed at around aund it if tho the corn is ia of a large variety three hills hilla will be as much as the operator will hold holdin in the grasp of his hia left arm arin while he cuts them with his right hand and places thera hem against the forming shock in III tho the figure the shock is larger r anil and in the center and tho the first three lulls hills aro are those indicated kv by the letter A A A carried to the shock on oil the dotted line tho the next nest three ill uie 9 B D do B cut and placed beside tho the others each ih e three aro marked bytho by iho letters UCC ODD GEE BED G GG ana and bling taken an d cut in this regular order they will be placed in separate positions lions equally all around ghosh the shock ck and tho the laborer cau call hardly avoid making makin in it equally upright this system will nill abridge steps and mako the work much easier than cutting at random As every shock ie 10 quires tho the bame order the operator oper soon bc comes accustomed to it and works rap idly the same general course will apply to larger shocks or to those made of sni smaller aller corti corn W with ith blight modification it will apply to corn in drills the arrows show the direction for the operator to in making a single shock if tile the hills are three and a halt half feet apart it will require about ten rods walking aud and for a field of a hundred shocks moru than three miles while with an irregular mode without system several miles would be required repaired saving the fodder would be still more important making all the tha difference between such as is fresh green and uninjured and that which is destroyed by prostration and rotting with rains |
