Question on Combining Corn

Here are my questions. Do the corn stalks go through the combine? Or, does the "header" somehow take the ears off the stalks and only send them through the machine. What happens to the stalks? I'm talking about a traditional cylinder/walker machine. I know the rotaries are different.

Thanks. I was just curious and I know many corn people check this forum.

advantageges and disadvantages:

running all the stalks and materials through the combine makes a lot of material running through a machine - takes a good size machine or u have to go slow.....

the draper head can takes rows of any spacing - can even go across rows if u want, and doesn't take the power t\o run that a regular corn head does.....

Smaller ears, set them close, in a field with bigger ears open the plates a bit and you get less trash.

(I assume you know there is no sickle on a cornhead so most of the stalk is pushed down and under the combine).

Corn is actually one of the easiest crops to harvest. Get you cylinder speed set right and concave spaced properly and it should roll those kernels right off the cob.

If you want some really interesting reading (really) check out the combine setting books by the late Ray Steuckle. Some may not agree with all of his methods but you can learn a ton just by reading his books.