corn fields

Well there comes a time when the corn is good and tall...What kind of fun did you have in there??

I can remember my dad adding sorghum to the silage corn and we would go in, cut a stalk and suck on it for the sugar.

shot a lot of coons in there during the summer
when i was younger

Every fall, when the sweet corn was done, my dad could show us how they shocked corn. He would cut everything in an area, except four stalk. Two in one row, then two in a row about the same distance apart to leave the 4 standing stalks in a square. Then he would tie the tops of these 4 together with twine and start stacking the stalks around the 4, from the area that he had cut. He would leave one spot open so we could crawl in and play in our "corn stalk teepee.

I'll make 2 year old Charlotte one this fall

pass it on.

Gene

We used to plant pumpkins, squash in the corn. Dad said it was good hiding for those crops. "Course, every fall, we had to find and drag out the pumpkins and squash before the corn was picked.

Coon Heaven,,,,, now don't go starting something, ya know, there are coons every where,

Plow hand, thought about you this morning. Found some new help to chop weeds out of my tobacco. When I left them in the patch to go feed calves and move cows they were working on their tan. Thought to myself, plow hand would love to see this.

Dave

I don't think I had an ear of sweet corn until I was about 15. In late summer, when the field corn was still soft, I was about 5, Grandma would tell me " GO fetch us some "roasting ears". I'd take a flour sack out to the grain corn field and pull off about 16 ears. That would do the six of us at the table just fine.
One year I was sent out there to get a "sackfull", of the baby ears. About 2 inces long. That kept me out of trouble for 1/2 a day! Grandma pickled them and what a treat. Lots of sugar in the cure.

Gordo

Around here in ohio they plant pot in the corn fields.

don't let external_link here you say that, he will racial profile you, LOL

Is there any chance you could've lended them your hands>?

ok, corn field story from when i was about 14 or so. just about every saturday nite in the summer a car would park down the road from our farm prolly about 11 pm. dad called em "lolly-gaggers" apparently a guy and girl watchin submarine races or something. when the corn got tall enough me and a couple neighbor kids would meet up, sneek up the headrow and lob a few ears of corn at the parked car.. woo-hoo boy they couldnt get dressed quick enough!!! got em that way 2-3 weekends in a row. somebody dumped a junk car about at the fenceline between us and the neighbors, takes the county about 3 weeks to tow em away. well, next saturday the lollygaggers show up, we sneek out, down the headlands and toss a few ears of corn. the car doors fly open and about 6 guys get out and start chasing us. we go runnin up the corn toward the neighbors maybe 1/4 mile away. all of a sudden we run into a bunch of kids running at us!!! it was the neighbor kids, they sneeked out to try and tip the junk car over in the ditch!!! after the initial scare we told em "RUN!!!!" got to the end of the field, crossed the road into the next corn field and ran into the neighbor kids from the other road!!! wound up with about a dozen kids tearing thru the corn field. ditched the 6 guys finally in the lollygaggers cars, then after we all emptied our shorts, had a good laugh over that one!! amazing how many people are in a corn field in the middle of the night!!

Nope. First, I gotta great wife and even if she was not great they ain't worth half my stuff. Two, I ain't their type.

Dave

Back when I was about 15, For KICKs .. I Used to flirt with a neighbor girl who was a couple yrs older about meeting her in the cornfield some day ,,, Well one WINDY day , She called and sweetly asked me to meet her halfway in the field 30 acre field ... So I Went.... and I NEVER DID FIND HER ,,too durn windy to hear anyone with all the wind rustlin ....

Gene;

Three or four years back, a guy up the road shocked all his corn. He wasn't Amish. It looked very cool. He used some type of crossed board framework until the shock was finished. Then he removed the boards.

Larry in Michigan

I can respect that......

That's just being efficient- they're double cropping.

I sometimes wonder how much a guy could make off of 1 acre of pot. Probably enough to get Mom & Dad out of debt.

Dononvan from Wisconsin