Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-10-02

AusKINe AND cRlBBlNe CORN.

Mask Soon as Ready For the Crib-Utiliz
ing Soft Corn-Seed Corn.
The idea prevails that husking corn is
a job that can be put off and done at
any time, but much loss is sustained
from mice, whitening winds and rain
Then, too, leaving corn in the fields un-
husked until freezing weather is the oc-
casion of serious loss in way OF soft
corn, the value of which is greatly I'M
haired when it is once frozen hard. For
these and similar reasons husking should
begin as soon after cutting as the corn
is in condition for it. A correspondent
of the Ohio Farmer, who advocates husk-
ing as soon as practicable, says:
The sorting should be done at once.
know of no better time for this work
than just as the ears are husked Have
a basket near your elbow. If you throw
with your right hand, husk on the side
of the pile that brings this hand nearest
TO the basket. Husk clean. Nubbins had
better be taken out unless the fodder is
fed out at once If left in, mice and rats
will harbor in the shocks, aud cattle
will not relish such fodder. Throw all
sound (orib corn) in the basket By
husking clean, l mean taking off all silk
aud husks. It will take no longer to do
it we'll than to half do it. The small
ard soft corn can be thrown on the
ground We usually carry some sacks
ana pick up every half day, or it can be
left il the field until enough is husked
TIC make load, then pick up This can
be done in the afternoon when fodder is
200 dry to handle
To get this soft and small corn early
Is one Of the advantages of early husk-
ing As large amount of this cannot |
very we'll be kept together, it can be fed |
out to good advantage as husking pro- |
ceeds. If one has hogs enough to keep |
mp with husking, they make the best |
crib for this corn. If one has large |
amount of corn and not many hogs, so
the small and soft corn pile gets ahead
of the consuming capacity, don t stop |
husking. Winter is coming. A cheap
crib can be put up. In feeding this
small corn it should be sorted, the soft
est and those ears that are part moldy,
fed to cattle and brood sows. Soft corn
is one of the best foods for producing
milk have found yet. Soft corn is also
enc of the best things to start spring
calves eating grain.
As each ear comes directly under our
observation in husking it's proper place
can at once be decided upon without
any extra time or labor, and here is
good opportunity for selecting seed
corn. Select when husking ears of me-
dunn size, of uniform thickness, straight
rows, well filed at the ends, and those
That grow quite near the stalk, and kerr
nels that are tight together, and you
have the best yield the field affords.
On ears intended for seed leave some
auslis. The ears can be put in dry place,
Sisd by the husks in twos and hung up
aw&y from rats and mice and will not
reel looking after until planting time.
he crib should be so constructed as
TO admit a wagon to drive alongside,
Wit. "a opening at the top to scoop in.
II s2:a made of common fencing and is
81 :ong, 5 feet wide at bottom, 81
at ~. Z feet high, with roof sloping
one way. This makes it convenient for
The boards run lengthwise
Ia this way shoveling need not be done
20 high, as the boards can easily be TAX
IL off and replaced as the crib is filed
It holds about 1000 bushels. Expert
snce has taught me that tight floor is
not the proper thing for corncrib.
Cracks, if not more than an inch wide,
should be left as near as ten inches
apart at least. Experience has taught
nae as we'll that such a pile Of corn
wants circulation of air through the
seu:ar f9r safety. For this take two
bo;sIds a,la 8 inches wide; nail in V
a2ape WI ciaats every six feet to keep
frolsi ~ ing. Put this in lengthwise
in the cel.l er, with holes cut in ends of
srio. Il corn is taken out at the end, the
can be made in short pieces
10 it can be removed as corn is taken
set
Irrigation For General Farming.