Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1903 — A Mighty Corn Husker. [ARTICLE]

A Mighty Corn Husker.

Michall Cover, son of Geo. W. Cover, of Union Tp, was in town Wed., having ju3t returned from the vicinity of Lowell, where he has been helping to gather in the big corn <;rop there. Mich is a husky husker from Huskerville, for a verity, and the Lowell papers mention a feat he performed in that line, on Monday of last week. On the morning of that day he took a reef in his husking clothes, armed himself with a stiletto pointed husking peg, and went out into the 'fields, and husked 110 bushels and 40 pounds of corn, in eight hours time The corn was taken to the Lowell elevator and weighed, so that there was so guesswork about the amount. The Lowell papers say that if the corn had been standing up in good shape he would have made 125 or 130 bushels, instead of 110. The com was husked clean, too, and no undue amount of nubbins left in the field for the crows. Michall challenges any husker in Indiana to meet him in a husking contest.