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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 81 hills makes a plenty. 

 Yet there is a diiference 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 largei* and further apart. 

 Under such circumstances they should be as 

 lai'ge 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 a few days when the corn 

 has dried out so as to reduce the weight about one-half we 

 carry one shook 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. 



