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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

My grandfather had a big 'combine' for soybeans.  Boring work (I was too 
young to drive the combine, myself).  The driver would drive on , and on , 
and on, down straight rows,; turnaround and do the same.  back and forth , 
all day long .....bobford

Marie included a woikipedia article on combines, it showed one dumping the 
shelled corn into a trailer; but didn't show how it shelled the corn off the 
cob --that is what I want to see.

The youtube video I posted shows a combine working, but it dumps a load of 
shucked corn, still on-the-cob ......bobford



--- On Sun, 10/19/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 5:42 PM
> It's called a combine. There are different
> 'heads' for harvesting corn 
> or small grains. It grinds the stalk and cob and throws it
> back on the 
> field.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> bob ford wrote:
> > I knew that (about sweet corn); I had just forgotteen;
> thanks Lynn.  I remember as a child, picking corn by hand
> and throwing it into a slow moving trailer. 
> > 
> >  Every year at harvest time, we get 'sweet
> corn' , here in phoenix, brought up fresh in trucks
> froma farm in central Arizona.  When my MIL was alive, a
> couple of times we drove up to near Camp Verde and bought
> fresh sweet corn from a produce stand right next to the
> cornfield. 
> > 
> > I have never seen a tractor that shells corn as it
> picks the corn.  Maybe I can find a video on youtube.  What
> do they do with the cob?   bobford 
> > 
> > 
> > -
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- On Sun, 10/19/08, Lynn Wigglesworth  wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Lynn Wigglesworth 
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
> >> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 5:21 PM
> >> Corn on the cob and the stuff you get in the can
> is sweet
> >> corn. The 
> >> stuff they feed to cows and make ethanol from is
> field
> >> (dent) corn. Dent 
> >> corn is also used for cornmeal, so a homesteader
> is likely
> >> to be growing 
> >> either or both types.
> >>
> >> Lynn Wigglesworth
> >>
> >> bob ford wrote:
> >>> So, the corn I get out of a can, from the
> store; is
> >> the same corn ,from the same fields, as the
> >> "corn-on-the-cob" I buy at the store? 
> And,
> >> essentially would be the same corn James and Rob
> grow on
> >> their farms?  Just picked and processed
> differently?  
> >> ..............bobford
> >>>
> >>> --- On Sun, 10/19/08, Don Bowen  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> From: Don Bowen 
> >>>> Subject: RE: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
> >>>> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com,
> >> homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >>>> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4:45 PM
> >>>>> you are strictly taling 'feed
> corn'? 
> >> I'm a
> >>>> bit confused.  I know very
> >>>>> little about this subject ....bobford
> >>>> In our industrial agriculture corn is a
> >> "feed"
> >>>> stock for all sorts of
> >>>> things.  It is obviously feed for all
> Confinement
> >> Feeding
> >>>> Operations.  Most
> >>>> of the animal products sold in the US are
> feed
> >> corn is
> >>>> various forms.  We
> >>>> are feed corn in all sorts of things, HFC
> is in
> >> almost
> >>>> everything we eat now
> >>>> days in addition to all sorts of other
> corn based
> >>>> ingredients.  It is also a
> >>>> feed stock for ethanol plants.
> >>>>
> >>>> All this corn is bought and sold as a
> commodity, a
> >> bushel
> >>>> of corn is a
> >>>> bushel of corn no matter where it is
> produced, the
> >> only
> >>>> important
> >>>> consideration is the moisture content. 
> GMO corn
> >>>> complicates the issue but
> >>>> only is corn for human consumption but it
> is so
> >> completely
> >>>> mixed now that
> >>>> even we humans are eating a lot of GMO
> corn.
> >>>>
> >>>> We are truly "children of the
> corn."
> >>>>
> >>>> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> >>>>
> >>
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