Harvest

It is harvest time here for many crops at the moment. I called in to see some friends yesterday, and they were just de-husking their corn. This can be done by hand, but when you have a certain amount of corn, it makes sense to hire a machine to do it. In the photo you can see the corn husks to the right of the photo. They were being put into sacks, from which they were fed into the top of the machine. Behind the machine to the left you might be able to make out the big bowl on the ground into which the grains were falling. From there, they were poured into large sacks. There was a lot of husk dust around, and it was very noisy!