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On All of Our Implements Except Mowers 
Tillage Implements 
Moldboard Plows 
Disc Harrows * 
Tractor Harrows 
Weeders 
Stub and Vine Cutters 
Planters and Seeders 
Corn Planters 
Cotton Planters 
Peanut Planters 
Potato Planters 
Combination and Special Drills 
for All Vegetable Seeds 
Hay Tools 
Mowers 
Rakes 
Tedders 
Cultivating Machinery 
Walking Cultivators 
Single Row Riding Cultivators 
Double Row Riding Cultivators 
Hand Garden Cultivators 
Riding Hoes 
Walking Hoes 
Tobacco Ridgers 
Crop Preservation 
Machinery 
Hand Sprayers 
Bucket Sprayers 
Barrel Sprayers 
Potato Sprayers 
Orchard Sprayers 
Cotton Dusters 
General Crop Dusters 
Miscellaneous Small Tools 
Fertilizer Machinery 
Manure Spreaders 
Broadcast Fertilizer Sowers 
Special Drill Fertilizer Sowers 
for All Crops 
Harvesters and Cutters 
Potato Diggers 
Carrier Ensilage Cutters 
Blower Ensilage Cutters 
Com Huskers 
Corn Shelters 
Hay, Straw and Stalk Cutters 
General Tools 
Tobacco Presses 
Cider Presses 
Fanning Mills 
Garden Barrows 
ALTHOUGH not justified by present and 
aTl prospective costs, which continue high, 
we have determined to do our utmost to sta¬ 
bilize business conditions as they affect the 
farmer. With this purpose in mind, we make 
this unprecedented offer on all of our lines. 
This offer is made for immediate acceptance 
and subject to prior sale of goods now on hand 
or in process of manufacture. Any delay in 
placing your order with your dealer may pre¬ 
vent him from making delivery. Discouraged 
by recent market conditions, he has not pro¬ 
vided sufficiently for your coming needs. It 
may take him some time to do so, and further 
delay on his part may prevent you from buy¬ 
ing at these low prices. 
Go to your dealer today and place your 
order at this tremendous reduction. The im¬ 
plements made by Bateman and Companies, 
Inc., are standard values. They have planted 
the crops and tilled the fields of American 
farmers for generations. To buy them at these 
prices is to reduce your cost of farming. Do 
not be without them this Spring. Act now. 
Bateman and Companies, Inc., 347 Madison Ave., New York 
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NEW TRACTORS AND PLOWS 
BEOW PRE-WAR PRICES 
Foreign Government Embargoes force 
us to place the following implements on 
the domestic market at great sacrifice : 
7 New Huber Light Four Tractor*. 
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79 La Crosse No. 23, Three-Bottom 
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January 29, 1921 
Recollections of a Corn Shucker 
I was very prlad to read the letter of J. 
H. Tubbs, on page 35, relative to shucking 
corn in Nebraska, for it brought to my 
mind recollections of a Winter away back 
in the seventies when I, too, was husk¬ 
ing corn in that region, but not at the 
rate of Sc a bushel. Grasshoppers had 
hatched there the previous Spring, and 
had made the grain crop a total failure. 
But corn, coming a little later, the grass¬ 
hoppers had developed their wings and 
had taken leave, and so a few fields of 
corn had matured. Four of us young fel¬ 
lows. fresh from the East, had taken the 
job of busking 320 acres of corn upon 
shares. We furnished teams and wagons, 
boarded ourselves and teams, husked the 
corn, drew the owner's share of the corn 
three miles and cribbed it, and received 
every eighth bushel for our work. Fol¬ 
lowing two successive failures of crops, 
there was no money in the country, but 
we could haul our share of the corn six 
miles and .sell it for T2c a bushel, by tak¬ 
ing in payment goods from the general 
store, at most extravagant prices, and we 
could get it ground into meal by paying 
one bushel in every four for miller’s toll. 
As a matter of fact, we sold none, but 
stored our share for feeding our horses 
during the following Summer. During 
the lon^ Imliau Summer-like days of 
October and November a man could easily 
husk and crib GO bushels a day. Some 
could go as high as 100 bushels, but we 
husked through the months of December, 
January and February, and barely aver¬ 
aged 40 bushels a day. 
Each of us owued a team, and we built 
a sod stable for sheltering our horses. 
This was done by laying up the walls with 
the tough prairie sods, similarly as a stone 
wall might have been laid. Willow poles, 
cut upon speculators’ land, near the river, 
were laid across the walls for supports, 
and these were covered with hay. We 
erected a similar edifice for our own ac¬ 
commodation, except on account of the 
danger from fire, we covered it with 
plank, and we covered the plank with sods 
for extra warmth. We fitted a window 
in each side, rigged up a double door, 
covered the floor with hay, and we had a 
mansion, which, though a little short on. 
architectural beauty, was long on com¬ 
fort. We set up an old stove which a 
discouraged settler had left behind when 
he abandoned the country, and ran the 
pipe through the roof of our mansion. We 
bought a water pail, a frying pan, an iron 
kettle and a few tin dishes. Then we 
built a table of rough boards, made a few 
benches for seats, built a couple of cribs 
and filled them with hay aud used them 
for beds, and we had all the furniture 
that any well-organized family needs. We 
had a few bushels of corn ground, bought 
and butchered a fat pig, and bought a beg 
of sorghum molasses. 
And then we tackled that cornfield and 
we kept at it until the last ear was husked 
and cribbed. We worked from daylight 
until dark every day, and seven days in 
the week. Often the thermometer was 
’way below zero, and, for a long time, the 
snow was above our ankles. But we were 
making 60c a day, and we wrapped some 
grain bags around our feet* and legs and 
worked all the harder. In all that Win¬ 
ter there was but one-half day that the 
inclemency of the weather was sufficient 
to drive us from that cornfield and force 
us to take shelter in our mansion. 
A neighboring settler gave us the use 
of two cows for their keeping.' It re¬ 
quired the united efforts of all four of 
us to milk them the first few times, but 
they soon learned what was required of 
them, and they furnished us with milk 
during the Winter. We lived ’way up on 
the top shelf. As a rule our daily bill of 
fare was cornmeal mush for supper, john- 
nycake or cornmeal pancakes for break¬ 
fast, and fried mush for dinner, with 
milk and sorghum at about every meal. 
We never bothered with butter, but our 
meat diet was varied and greatly strength¬ 
ened by the flesh of jack rabbits, for the 
prairie abounded with these little fellows 
and we caught a large number in box 
traps. 
We fed corn to our horses and used the 
cobs for fuel. Sometimes, during the 
coldest weather, the supply ran short, 
and then we burned hay, twisted into 
coils somewhat resembling the old-fash¬ 
ioned skeins of yarn that we of the older 
generation used to hold upon our hands 
while our grandmothers wound it off into 
balls. These would last about as long 
and give off about as much heat as pine 
sticks of similar size. People of the East 
are somewhat exercised at the present 
time over the report that the farmers of 
Nebraska are now burning corn for fuel. 
I do not know how it is done. We tried 
it many times, and always found that the 
kernels would pop away from the cob and 
then fall upon and clog the grates. Our 
evenings were mostly spent in parching 
corn aud eating it while hot. At the 
present time, wore I to try that trick, I 
would be obliged to swallow the corn in 
hen fashion, but my teeth were then 
strong enough and plentiful enough to 
grind it satisfactorily. At an early hour 
we would retire to our bunks with full 
and well-satisfied stomachs, and I rested 
better upon that pile of hay. with one old 
horse blanket below and two above me, 
than I can rest now upon a twenty-dollar 
mattress, and. when Spring came, were a 
fat and healthy and happy crowd of boys. 
The only one of the crowd who has stuck 
religiously to farm life is now worth 
$150,000.' As for myself. I would give the 
accumulations of 40 years if I could but 
live that life over and feel as I felt then. 
0. 0. OBMSBEE. 
