Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1910 — Kentland Young Man Makes Remarkable Record in Corn Field. [ARTICLE]

Kentland Young Man Makes Remarkable Record in Corn Field.

Kentland Enterprise. A new corn husking record is made every year. Twenty years ago 60 and 70 bushels was a big day’s workrCdrn husking became a science, and today there are many of the young men around here who average from 100 to 140 bushels a day for the entire season. But Carl Bader, of Harrison, Ohio, who husked corn the past season for Mundy, west of town, has set a new mark that will keep the boys humping to reach. ' Tuesday, Nov. 22nd, he husked the enormous amount of bushels in 9 hours and 45 minutes. He remained in the field all the time, and stopped three times to eat, at 10, 12:30 and 3 o’clock, taking 15 minutes for each meal. The empty wagons were brought to him and the loaded ones taken away. The corn in the field averaged about 50 bushels to the- acre, and it is said that Bader husked the corn cleaner than the average husker, .picking “nubbins” and all. He rested the next fore nOon, but went out in the afternoon and picked 50 bushel^. It can be easily figured out about how many ears of corn the man handled that day, as the average num- ‘ - - of ears to bushel is about 100. Mr. Bader is a young man about 27 years of age and is over six feet tall, weighing in the neighborhood of 185 pounds.