Posted by RayP(MI) on December 03, 2010 at 16:16:12 from (207.241.137.116):
In Reply to: What's corn shucking? posted by rrlund on December 03, 2010 at 07:01:19:
When I was a kid, late '40s, early '50s, my dad and uncle harvested corn with a corn binder. It was a one row unit that cut and bundled the corn, stalks and all. Then they came through and stood the bundles in standing bunches called shocks. They then transported the corn bundles to the barn where they were stored for further processing. As needed, the ears of corn were snapped off and husks removed by hand. This was called shucking or husking. Stalks were fed to livestock. Corn on cobs was taken to elevator in town, ane either ground, cob and all for cow feed, or shelled and ground for chicken and pig feed. I can still remember my dad huddled in the barn husking corn in the leaky, drafty ond barn in the coldest of the winter. He used a hand held tool called a husking peg. The tool was cradled in the hand with fingers through the leather loops. Thumb opposed the pointy end, which made it easy to grasp the husk and pull it off. We still have one around here somewhere.
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