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CORN 



Harvesting. Corn may be cut by hand, with a corn 

 knife, or harvested with the corn binder. The binder is a 



machine that .binds 

 the cornstalks as it 

 cuts them, thus mak- 

 ing the crop easy to 

 handle. The bundles 

 are shocked and later 

 drawn to the barn 

 and run through a 

 shredder; or the ear 

 corn is husked in 

 the field and drawn 

 to the cribs and the 

 stalks stored away for feed. Cornstalks, after the ear corn 

 has been removed, are called stover. If used for feed when 

 the ears are not removed, they are called fodder corn. 



Fig. 14. Last cultivation of corn. 



Fig. 15. A corn harvester. 



In some sections of our country the corn is merely taken 

 from the standing stalk and the stalks are left in the field. 

 Since approximately one third of the feeding value of corn 



