Price 50
Office located at 111 E. Main, Mankato, Kansas 66956
Established 1890, Volume 127, Issue No. 3
USPS, NO. 274-940 Thursday, January 21, 2016
Old-fashioned corn picking
held in field west of Jewel]
Men gather to recollect 'the way it was'
t),b ~L~u remem~r hearing stories
about d~c ~ay corn was pk'kcd, Some
~.',id~'r, m+ty even hav~mn aoneor two
ro,~ ct~ni picker.
++-or li~c nndivhl.nal~ wht~ enjoy
~~rkmg Ih h+lnd wifl~ the anliqU m~*-
ehinerv, a evrnt piL'kJn~ wcckCnLI +,a~,
h~ld N-,v 14 :+rid 15. +I)15.ju.~t v,c~u el
,Icv. ll.
AP+ t'iLl" a~ ~t'llmj~ the dalc o:I" the
pK'kln~ th~ ~',IggC-+.l i.|iiltg la~,21i In|0
6' msLd :faHor~ wa~ ti'l.6, u,~alh~r.
"We didn'u pi~.k nlstil in tile LjlflLr~F-
noon .~ th+.' l+:~l~ralur s ~' i~ .:t hll|
warner.'+ mid Calvin Bohncn.
~Jringin~ the~r picker~ an)d antiqn
tr~ctor~, ,~ rc Denni, Ra;vlnll.
KCi| ~tn 1~ln, v,'ilh a ('ahC c ~rnpit-kcr
a~d ~hell='r he pulled wtth hi', J~hn
])+. ' rc B: J't. V alld+3r(J il.' ~n. ~ m~th {, 'll-
let. % kh a P+|innea~li.~ Molinc pzvker
pulled hip John Do-'; A t~,tctt~r tha~
'+,'=lh ~t-'~'l v heeh,'. Nelson |'r llthlc},
('antbrldg . Hub picked un Sat~l[tla~
~ ly ~ttl a OT|(.'.rOW [nlem~thmaJ
pit.-ker pulled by ;.i '+,I~.l Farmall: Stair
C . vn, Iota: bron~dhl a New ldc-'t
gmmm ~,m
+'[i:u n~+n N
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pi+.'kcr thai wa~ pu|h.'+J by an H FaJrmalt:
and Calvin Bvhnen t~sed a W<~l.+
Brother pi,:keP pulled with a John D~ re
A.
"l have picked +:ore with this plck~
before,"1 ~aid Colson. "lt iS h;~rd to
explain hut m+ing the old n'm+:hir~tT, if
it we;ks u + it nli >vld, i.~ so m~'h (an."
Buhncrl. one of the '+love to Urn: Ihe
old stuff'+ individual~, pl~ted a field
t)i ~'orn at lhc north edge a.nd jusl to 111("
~c~t uJ' Jev, cll with Ih +.'ore picking
days m mind.
"l Ivvc doin8 1his kind of .+tul'T tl i~
++(i much tun," ~iid Bohnen.
A nltxlc m d~y c]mhine " ,'a.s usud t(}
upen up the ~6-acre corn patch, The
piekcr~ har~ slcd eighl tol)ineac~c.~of
~'um ~ hich um~m~lled k~ chi~e te I ,O(J~l
hu,Iv,:l~ of ear com. After the c~m we+,
pivkcd ,I was lakell by the wa~on load
am] 13ohnc~'~ Farm aml ualoaded+ "L-he
nnh~adn'~ pr~;+.'~,>+ v,a~ done wilh %he
n'~' ~I +~ p.+ttaht;~ elevat<~ and ~ .~(mp
,~ll=~t't. Later Ih ~]m "+,as gft}ul|d ~nd
tccd h~ lts v~l*~k.
lh ~ ~cle apWo.~imat ly r~I} on-
I~kcrs ia attendance at Ihc picking un
Satarday and nl++r+' th, afl 30 allended
Sunday- l'h~, weekead wax opening
pheasan ~ason and Calvin was hop-
ing huale~ would -~k~p and watch the
p,ckcr~ work ~,hich did happen. One
of Calvin' ,+ +.'oasin~ from McPhcrson
came Io hc],p. The c~msin grew up on a
J'~un~, th01 ~L~cd the corn picker~,
Cal~+in' ~ w i h:, P-egg y, pn:parcd ~oup
and b++~l cooki ~ for t|lo~ in a|len-
dance, D~]] Bohnen, with the use of
i~is ht~rncma~ v, agon. gave ~de~ oul
in t~ corn field l,+r lhuxe WhO wa]lled
Io have a closer look Lindu W( mcr
rink pK'mresof;~cveut. ~++eral from
the area hvlT~d pull the v,'agon~ that
were loaded ~ith 11~ cure fnm', the
t~cld Io Ihe f.',nn.
When the corn picking weekend
was ~wer, Cabin 6'It his tractor and
picker setting at the edge of the field.
At Christmas tiltS, il was decorated
with Ch~i ~ma ,+ light~.
'"["g i s was Ik first linty Io[ the co~
picking- (lay-+, hm l know right now it
~ill not 1~ the ]a~t t~l ~hem l't)r ntc,"
~a~ghed Calvnn.
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