Posted by John Harmon on August 25, 2011 at 11:25:53 from (174.26.189.163):
In Reply to: O/T Shocking Corn posted by fergienewbee on August 25, 2011 at 07:40:16:
My dad started farming on his own in 1934. He never ever shocked corn for any reason in those years but he did on his dads farm in Kentucky.He told stories to us kids at night[no TV yet} about his youth and shocking corn bundles was one of them.he had 2 brothers and 1 sister,Grand Dad had a IHC bundle machine and he would drive it down the row of corn and this machine would cut off as much corn as the cog gear was set for ,wrap a twine around it and dunp it on the ground.Then he and his brothers would bring 3 bundles to where my aunt was standing and stack them against the bundle she was holding up right.They continued this for about 15 bundles and then they took a peice of twine and wrapped it around the whole shock and tie it off. When the twine holding the shock together and they were brought in to strip the ears off or to run thru the Ensalage cutter to fill the silo there were a lot of short peices of twine laying around.These were put in a basket and taken to the house to start the morning fire in the cook stove with. Some of the shocks of corn were left in the field for storage but a lot of them that were not shucked or chopped were stacked around the house as a wind break from the cold country winter winds. some of this happened near the end of the Depression years so corn di not have a real lot of value but was used as feed and other things. grand dad would save the best ears back for next years seed and he also would shell out any red ears and hammer mill them for corn meal. Dad said he really liked his moms corn bread made with red corn meal.I was born in 1937 and missed all that, good thing my dad was a good story teller.I always said I was born 100 years too late.
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