Husking like it’s 1899
Near Roseville in west-central Illinois, Abby Wendle joined the Illinois State Corn Husking Contest, an event that replicates the fall harvest from the era before agricultural mechanization. “Whole families would head out at dawn to walk the rows with their horse-drawn wagons. They’d try to pick 50 bushels, 2,800 pounds of corn, before lunch and… » Read More
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