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| Grandpa hadn't farmed since the early 50s. When he saw the corn Dad raised in the 80's he thought it was terrible. The ears were 1/2 size. When we explained it would yield because we had 4 x the population he had, his comment was he would hate to pick it as it would take forever to get a load of those small ears. So I take it variety of the corn made a big difference in how much got picked. He also said a good man could get 100 bu a day, 2 wagons . Poor corn would be less or corn that husked hard would be less.
Grandpa said he selected ears that were big and on tall plants for seed. I would guess where he came from 40 bu would have been pretty good.
We helped a neighbor that wanted to plant corn one year on his acreage. 2 1/2 acres of corn and Dad, brother and I, plus him killed most of a weekend. He finally let us finish with our picker, Although I still got to scoop it into the crib.
It wasn't real bad until it started getting full and if I didn't get it thrown clear into the back it would come back out at me. Even then some did. | |
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Picking corn by hand......
