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are often pulled irom stalks with husks on and 

 carried 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. 3G.— Finger Huskino 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 



