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:* 



"I 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. Bun 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 a superior 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." , 



Where threshing is practiced the corn must 

 be well dried in the field, else the grain will 

 heat in the bin or pile. 



* Breeder''s Gazette, Oct. 10, 1894. 



