120 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
The shredders handle from three to ten acres 
of corn a day, according to size of machine and 
character of crop. The prices of shredders are 
listed at $80 to $130, and of huskers and shred- 
ders combined at $150 to $400. 
Threshing corn is frequently practiced where 
threshing machines are common and the crop 
is large. A common threshing machine is used. 
W. J. Bingham of South Dakota says:*- 
‘T have threshed it for the past five years, more or less, 
using a Westinghouse Separator. It is just as easy to thresh 
as wheat. Leave the cylinder the same as for wheat, and 
take out all the concave teeth but one single row, putting in 
blank concaves or boards to fill out. Run the machine about 
half as fast as for threshing wheat; this will crack the corn 
some but will not hurt it for feeding purposes. I think this 
is asuperior way of handling corn, especially where you use 
a binder and bind corn the same as wheat. The fodder is 
almost equal to that cut by a fodder cutter, and will keep 
here in Dakota in stack without being covered with anything, 
but where they have more rain top with marsh hay and it 
will keep all winter.” 
W here threshing is practiced the corn must 
be well dried in the field, else the grain will 
heat in the bin or pile. 
* Breeder’s Gazetle, Oct. 10, 1894, 
