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CORN 



large areas are grown, and corn stands up well, the machine 

 is a saving. With hand picking a better job can be done. 

 The ears are stored in well ventilated cribs to dry. 



The cheapest way to harvest corn is "hogging it off." 

 This is done by turning the hogs into a field when the corn 

 is ripe, and letting them gather the crop. Where corn is 

 to be hogged off, rape, clover, or some other succulent crop 

 is planted between the rows at the last cultivation. This 

 adds variety and gives more feed to the acre. Hogging off 

 corn is becoming more common every year. 



FIG. 60. Cutting corn with a harvester. This machine cuts the stalks and binds them into 

 bundles. It does not husk the corn. 



If the fodder, as well as the grain, is to be used for feed- 

 ing, corn is cut when it begins to ripen. It is either stored 

 in shocks in the field until cured, or cut up fine, when still 

 green, and put in a silo. Cured corn stalks with the ears 



