Posted by greenbeanman in Kansas on August 25, 2011 at 12:14:35 from (99.103.254.105):
In Reply to: O/T Shocking Corn posted by fergienewbee on August 25, 2011 at 07:40:16:
We used a McCormick-Deering grain binder to bind our cane and then shocked it for curing and storage. Some call it stooking instead of shocking.
To begin a shock we would bring several bundles close together if a carrier on the binder had not been used to dump several in a pile.
We'd lean the tops of two bundles together and while holding them (if needed) we'd add a third bundle in steep pyramid fashion. To this start you simply add bundles around the perimeter until you had a shock as big as you wanted.
We would haul some of the bundled feed in a hay rake and stack the bundles flat into a feed rack. During times when we couldn't haul in from the field we would then feed from the rack as it had head opening on the front where bundles could be tossed from the pile and the cattle could eat. The feed rack was long enough to accommodate 50 head of stock cows. That was a lot of feed to haul each year although often we'd carry some over from the previous year.
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