The farmer that my family worked for and owned the place where we lived back in the late 40's early 50's was very modern in some respects, but for whatever reason, still shocked corn and husked it by hand. I sat for many hours with him and my dad in the top of his dairy barn husking corn.
I guess everyone had them, but we had some leather "gloves" that went on our right hands that had a hook embedded in it. We'd hold the ear with our left hand, and make one pass down the ear with the hooked right hand to split the husk, then pull the husk back and twist it off the ear.
The stalks and husks were then run through a chopper to make fodder to make some of the food that the cows ate during the winter.
It didn't seem too romantic at the time, but the further I get away from it, the fonder my memories are of doing it.
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