Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-11-12

kAMPESKA.
How to Flick Corn.

Last week I promised 10 tel th'
boys and younger men, who have new
er been in a cor country, OF SEINE O
the rules a man must follow II ht
would be q fast co17l huskeT.
Now / do not know all about pickini
corn but as | was reared an Iowa boy
used to the maize and its harvest
have picked thousands OF bushels o
this king OF grains, and, too, was 10.
some years something OF a fast
husker, | viii tel you a little Of esorT
picking.
In the first place, Sosith Da&ota fel
lows, or at least this portion OF the
state in which VIZ live, you will please
bear in mind we seldom produce taI
least now, we may some day. corr
like they grow IN the sections Of the
grain belt better adapted to coah
growing, and no matter how skilled
you may be or become in huskins
cor you cannot, simply cannot, hush
big loads OF corr in a da9 in cases
where the yield is small.
so Bushels in Half nay.
/ have cribbed over sixty isshels Of
corn in less than on4-half q a day;
again in other fields, or under adverse
conditions ] have worked JUS as hard,
perhaps harder, and was unable to
pick to exceed rs bushels.
The weather, the team. the weeds,
the footing, the length OF the rows,
the distance from the crib, the size
of the ears, and, too, the stalks, the
thickness OF the planting, whether the
ears are all in easy reach for soa,
neither high nor low, whether you are
working by the day or month, or by
the bushei, all these things must be
taken into occount in picking cora.
Corn May Be Too Big.
Remember, YOU cannot pick your
biggest loads in the biggest corn; II
is the good corn, not the big corn, in
which you get cut your biggest loads.
The too large corn Is out of your
reach unless you are a big man and
the large stuff has big ears and big
stems, and unless you have big wrists
Sour wr3sts will give out Perhaps
you will sprain a wrist and il VIII
swell away out and you will have TO
Eay up for repairs.
Big Yields a Handicap.
II Is not the corn that yields so to
80 bushels per acre ordinarily but the
corn that yields SO. So so, SIS and UP
to, perhaps, 10 or rs per acre, with the
ataud not foo thick and the ears right
around your hips that furnishes the
field for the big picks. Also reuaen-
Der that all Of the corn in the great
maize growing state of Iowa is not
good corn. 1 have picked in lots OF
good corn in different sections OF
Iowa. have aise picked in numerous
fields that were as poGr or poorer in
the yield as the fields we around
here.
All Not Swift.
Too, bear In mind that not every
man can make a swift corn picker.
Some men excel In this thing, some
excel In another line. Ny friend, H.
ID. Rice, is no doubt a good banker.
likely capable OF skill In conducting
farming operations, yet as a hotel
clerk, q preacher. or manager OF q
circus, he might be largely a failure.
No slam on the preacher either, or
the calling. because ] got that profess
sion mixed up above.
Don't Eat Too Much.
Now, In the first place, don't eat too
much, don't lose sleep. etc. Whyy
Because TO pick corn, to pick your
fastest gait. calls for a good body,
good wind, etc.
Again. You must get up carly in the
morning. fused to aim TO be in the
field at daylight In the morning when
! wanted to get out a big load or two
small loads. that is, when weather
permitted and / felt like doing 70.
OF course. there were a lot more
days that | didn't do SO than ! did
but many, many a day ] did. You
ian pick more In Ave or six hours than
you can In three or four. However,
] seldom worked later than early sun
down when was a corn picker.
a Good Peg, Too.
You want a good peg and tnfstens.
etc, wTisters on your wrists to hold
the tendons In place; belieYe ine, fast
husking tells on the wrists. pns 0a
wristers and mittens the very first
day TO keep your machine In shape
don't walt until the wrists ace spsaln
ed or hurt ana tbs hands are Sore
q peg ! used 20 use d fSsb Inside
of my mitten, a straight fssg, and fhs
hook or Jerk peg on the OifsfdeWhe
you lse the hook H. Of ecssfse, ans
ways the purpose Of one whistler
The Keyes Mfgs Co ef lss2esSes
Neh,, carries q good line OK assgl
huskers. s~uppIieS-~has Il cassiSgus d
them you can get on application sMr