Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1870 — How to Move Stooks of Corn. [ARTICLE]

How to Move Stooks of Corn.

A writer in the Prairie Farmer says : “I have a useful implement on my farm that 1 have never seen with any one else —that is, of the same k.nd and for the same purpose. It is a boat for drawing etook or shock corn, made in the following manner: Take five sixteen feet stock boards, one foot wide of first class quality, and bolt four pieces across the top of them at eaual distances. The one at the forward end had better be made of hard wood. Then take a chain and attach it to the head piece so that it will pass between the two outer and the three middle pieces that compose the bottom, and have it extend forward about a foot, where it should be attached to the double tree, where you can hitch two, three or even four horses abreast. This is decidedly the best thing I have ever used for moving stook or shocked corn. It will draw easily over the grass in the fall or spring, and if in winter there is a slight fall of snow, so much the better. Last winter I drew twenty acres of corn on one and liked it very much, it was so easy to load and un load. The corn, of course, should vh§. placed on the boat crosswise, and ff-it-fr dry a very large load can be taken at once. Any farmer can make one of these contrivances in one or two hours’ time.”