I grew up in the southwestern part of Virginia in the Clinch Mountians. We grew a little corn to feed the old milk cow and couple of hogs. Where we grew corn you could not get a corn binder to stay on the side of the hill. You were lucky to get the land plowed with a team of horses. Corn was planted by hand, cut and shocked by hand, and pulled and shucked by hand. The fodder was fed to the cow along with some ear corn. We would cut the corn by hand after the dew fell on it so as not to break the leaves off. It was tied in a bundle with a stalk of corn wrapped around 20-25 stalks. This bundle was placed in a shock with 10-12 other bundles left standing in the field. As the corn was needed for feed we would pull the ears and place in the corn crib. We only had two or three acres of corn because we had no large fields to grow it in. It was a lot of work but was a good life. DH
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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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