Word: cornstalks
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Paul Bunyan's Cornstalk...
...sure this was a sequoia tree and not a sprout from Paul Bunyan's famous cornstalk whose top, when it was cut, whistled through the air for six weeks before it hit the ground...
Flailing away with both hands, up and down the corn rows the farmers went as fast as they could go, each well-trained team of horses leading in front without direction, each tough cornstalk a fight. After 80 min. a gun boomed. Swiftly the judges weighed the yield. Ray Hanson of Cottonwood County, Minn, had the biggest load but he did not win. Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies. For every pound of marketable corn that the gleaners find left in the field the husker is penalized three pounds, for every ounce over five ounces of silks and shucks...
...your issue of Jan. 20 under the title "Husbandry," there is the statement, "Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard...
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks. A small part they chop up and put in silos for winter feed, a small part they leave standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar...