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in hills, and of medium-sized plants, ten hills 
square (100 hills) will make a good shock. Of 
smaller corn, 144 hills may be put into a shock, 
while of very large corn 51 hills makes a plenty. 
Yet there is a difference of opinion on this sub- 
ject and many place over 100 hills of fairly 
large corn in one shock. However, a medium- 
sized shock cures out more rapidly than a large 
one and the ear becomes fit for storing at an 
earlier date. 
Where corn is grown in drill rows about 40 
feet each of eight rows will give material 
enough for a good shock. A medium-sized 
shock should have a circumference at its base 
of about 25 feet. Anything much over that 
might be termed a large shock. 
Where wheat is to be sown in the corn rows 
the shocks should be larger and further apart. 
Under such circumstances they should be as 
large and as far apart as economy of labor in 
construction will permit. Waldo F. Brown, 
in writing of his new method of shocking on 
wheat seeded corn land, says:* 
‘*We cut the corn and put 10 rows in a shock row, but only 
eight hills the other way, and in afew days when the corn 
has dried out so as to reduce the weight about one-half we 
carry one shock from each side and set around the middle 
one, which gives us 240 hills to a shock and makes our shock 
rows 30 rods apart. We do this handling in the morning 
when the dew makes the fodder tough to handle, and as the 
* Farmers’ Review, Sept. 26, 1888. 
