Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-11-30
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CRiBBING CORN.
Husk Clean and DO Not Crib Until the
Corn Is Dry to the Cob.

Corn Is Dry to the Cob.
One may easily begin cribbing too
soon. Getting the corn in the crib too
early is even more disastrous than leav-
ing it in the field too long. Corn that
heats and molds in the crib is altogeth.
or damaged. Every ear ruins its neigh
Dor. And as the catastrophe takes place
last round tho outside Of the crib, where
the corn is exposed freely to the air,
the damage is apt to have made a lam
entable progress in the interior before
it is discovered unless one is very
watchful indeed. Tt will not stop the
heating and molding to throw tho top
off the crib. That is the worse thing
l one can do. The damage may be miti-
gated by spreading the corn II in a
dry, airy place.
Be sure the corn is cured and then go
ahead and as fast as you can. Corn can
be fed when it will not be fit to crib
for two to six weeks.
That corn may keep properly in a crib
it must not be huskcd until cured. 1t
must he husked clean, and the crib
rus aa~ -er it from tho weather. Corn
= $50 . be cribbed until it is dry
{ ny 41to : Nn t. the very cob. 1t may
- "Ta~+ ghen wet with rain (if well
cured. without appreciable damage, if
not too much of it is put in the crib,
but undoubtedly it is better to have it
dry altogether when cribbed. BY clean
correspondent, l mean removing the silk
as we'll as the husk and removing all
the husk. When the silk is not removed
and when ribbons in tho crib are fire..
quent, the chances of molding arc in
creased, and the depredations of mice
are multiplied. Tho mice are highly
pleased by the juXtaposition of bedding
and food.
Husk and silk absorb moisture and
hold it. Very few in the west remove
the silk. Yet it is as hurtful as the
quantity of hnsk that would condemn a
huskcr's work as decidedly slovenly.
The huskers that do not remove the
silk claim that to remove it takes time;
that the men that remove it do not husk
SO much corn. My observation is to the
contrary. OF the huskers of my ac-
q%uaintance those that remove tho silk
put as much corn in the crib as those
that do not. Tho latter assert that re-
m%ovingthe silk requires an extra pass"
which is true. The man that pays no at
tention to the silk in husking catches
the ear at it's butt with his left hand,
strips back the upper half of tho husk
with his right hand, and then catching
the ear with the right hand he lifts it
out of it's bed and breaks it off. The
MAJ that removes the silk catches the
point of the ear, including the silk,
with his left hand, strips back he up
per half of the husk with his right
hand, pushes his left hand to the butt
of the ear and breaks off the ear with
his right hand. Tho left hand is passed
to the butt of the ear while the right
hand is being brought back from the
appraised end of the husk to the center
Of the ear, and a hold is gained. So
there is really no loss of time, or, if
there is, it is so small that it is balanc-
ed by the ear being always clean of
husk, while the man who does not strip
back the lower half of the husk occa-
sionally has to stop to pull off "ribbons''
after the ear has been lifted from it's
bed.