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are often pulled from stalks with husks on and 
earried to the barn, where they may be husked 
at leisure, or stalks with ears on are placed in 
shelter, with the husking to follow later. In 
the great corn-growing States, where less rain 
occurs in the fall than in the East, field husk- 
ing is more easily accomplished. Where the 
corn is not cut and shocked, deep box wagons 
drive through the immense fields when the 
corn is well dried, and the ears are pulled from 
FiG. 36.—FINGER HUSKING PIN. 
the husks and thrown into the wagon and con- 
veyed directly to crib or market. Where the 
corn is shocked, after curing the ear is husked 
and usually thrown into heaps in between the 
rows, or into wagons, and the stalks placed back 
into the shock. Several average-sized shocks 
of husked stalks are generally combined to 
make one very large one. 
Dispensing with husking.—In an article in 
the Rural New-Yorker published about 1888 
Prof. Sanborn favors dispensing with the husk- 
ing process, on the basis that it involves a three- 
fold cost, viz.: 
“First, labor, which is a variable amount, depending upon 
