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| Yesterday morning I posted a link to some albums of old black and white photos of farms in Maryland. Many photos (like the 2 attached below) included corn shocks.
The caption for the second photo reads:
"Corn that was shocked by hand. A good worker can cut an acre of corn by hand after it dries he can husk 3/4 of an acre working rapidly to gather ears, cut and haul to corn crib using wagon and two horses he can pick up about 30 barrels per day. This is about the yield to 3 acres. The corn machine can do all of this and complete 12 acres per day."
I am curious about how long this practice continued in various parts of the US and why it continued after the general availability of pickers/combines.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
Edited by jbgruver 1/2/2014 09:47
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Why did corn shocking continue after the general availability of pickers/combines?
