Summary: Corn Stack
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When the corn had been harvested, it was tied into sheaves with the stems of the corn. As farming became more mechanised, this was done with a mechanical binder. The sheaves were then arranged in stooks of 4 sheaves, balanced against each other with the heads up and the butts down. After several days of drying, the stooks were then built into huts and then 4 – 6 of these huts were built into a corn stack like the one in the photograph. Like the haystack, a corn stack was built on top of a layer of bushes to keep it as dry as possible, and the top of the stack was covered with a skin of rushes secured by grass rope. The corn stack remained untouched until threshing began during the winter months.
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