Posted by Stan - Florida on December 03, 2010 at 07:37:58 from (97.103.151.32):
In Reply to: What's corn shucking? posted by rrlund on December 03, 2010 at 07:01:19:
"Shucking" corn does indeed refer to harvesting corn, primarily by hand in the "good ol' days". It means removing the "shuck" (or husk,if you prefer) from the ear of corn. Farmers often had a "shucking" or husking "peg", which was a leather sort of glove with a 1" (or so) long hook on it to start the removal of the shuck from the ear.
The horses did not need driving, as they would respond to "gee" or "haw", depending on which way you wanted them to turn...don't ask me which way those each of those terms meant, as I never could remember.
Before we got a corn picker in 1943, Dad was able to shuck a couple of acres a day, which yielded a couple of wagonloads. He'd pull the wagon into the barn or next to the crib and shovel the corn into the crib. The second load of the day was normally unloaded after supper, which you may know as "dinner".
A friend of mine used to say, "Where I come from, stock's in the field, engineers drive trains and dinner's at noon".
This was in central Indiana, so I don't know if the term "shucking" was used in other areas or not...I suspect it was.
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