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John B. · Mar 6, 2013

The best ears went in the side box for next year's seed..

I wonder what the little trailer behind the wagon was for??

Anonymous-0 · Mar 6, 2013

Little trailer must be for short people. I saw some coal miners picking corn with a tri-axle Mack, they said it took a pretty good arm to clear the side. I asked how long to fill the truck and they said they didn't know, never raised that much corn.

KYfarm · Mar 6, 2013

look at the size of those ears

leej · Mar 6, 2013

Wonder if the large wagon was also for seed, notice a canvas or cow-hide on bang board. This was so when the ear hit it,it would not shell?
Never ever remembering having a 2 wheel cart behind a wagon, but wonder if this was for small
ears or nubbins, note a few more shucks on the rear cart.This would be to feed his horses during
the winter?? ggp

Hammer house · Mar 6, 2013

One thing I notice was the high board on the right side of the wagon. I see what it was for hit it and fall back in the wagon. But could only load from one side.
I help pull A little corn myself when I was real young. We did not have that stop board on our wagon.

Would the little side box be too small for seed corn?

Hammer Man

John B. · Mar 6, 2013

I noticed the husks on the ears in the small wagon too. I think you're right.

NEsota · Mar 6, 2013

I grew up in the Husker State, never heard the turm "pulling corn" untill I was about 40 and visited S. Texas; we always said picking corn.

RLA · Mar 6, 2013

Seeing this picture I can add to this with a story,

In the teens my Grandfather would leave school
in Pa for a few weeks, catch a train to Iowa &
work picking corn for the Big operations with
a whole group on Men & boys. Afterwards when
the work was done he'd catch the train home.
In 1918 he left again for the fall harvest &
after two days of work, he received a telogram
that said 2 Words,,, Come Home,,, so he left
there, picked up his pay for 1.5 days & returned
home to find his Mother my Greatmother has
passed away.. I have a couple pictures, the
wagons looked bigger, & there was a lot more
men in the corn field. I know when he was an
old man & we'd open a corn field on the farm
he would pick 3 rows of corn to my one. There
was always a ear in the air headed to the
wagon when Grandad picked corn by hand..

greenmech · Mar 6, 2013

My Dad picking corn. Ron Mn

EricInSEI · Mar 6, 2013

In order to pick from both sides of a wagon the wagon and horses would have to be going over unpicked corn. So the wagon is always where the corn is already picked and you can only pick from one side.

cole in mo. · Mar 6, 2013

Me and dad picked a lot of corn by hand in the 50's, our wagon looked a lot like that one, 3 extra bang boards on the far side, 1 extra on the near side. But dad made a shovel board on the back, pull around to the crib, undo a latch on each side, lower the board and start shoveling. Steel shovel then weighed more empty than a alum one does now full. He picked 2 rows, I picked one and stayed behind him, the ears hitting the bang boards were as steady as a clock, and the horses only stopped when he told them to.

bjb in TX from Ne · Mar 6, 2013

When I bought my H down here in Texas, the seller told me they "pick cotton and pull corn".

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