The deer, squirrels, rats, and raccoons will eat the corn. Sometimes it gets really bad in the middle of winter and deer will pull entire ears out. So to minimize the damage we put chicken wire around our cribs, also orange snow fence, or the older snow fence made of wire and wooden lath. Last year we put round bales around the cribs, which worked until the deer learned to jump on top of the bales, stand on their hind legs, and eat well above the orange snow fencing. They can all make a mess, especially if corn is kept in to the summer. Some of it we just figure as "drying cost" since we aren't combining it and burning LP like everyone else. Some years you can keep up on it really well and have practically no loss, and other years we have 30-40 deer on the yard every night. I agree there was more habitat around here years ago for deer, so they weren't so concentrated, and the deer population has increased substantially from years ago...
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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