—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1978
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My father was one of those men that worried
about leaving one ear of corn in the cornfield I
think he would lay awake at night wondering if he
had done everything possible to assure that the
corn settling in the corncnb for the Winter was the
highest supply possible
Now this may not sound like much of a big thing,
but there was the year that the cornfield was just
too wet to get the darnblasted cornpicker into the
field.
The result was that my father devised his
wonderful plan called “the family that picks corn
together, stays together”. It went over like a lead
balloon, but nobody had the courage to do more
than mutter quietly under their breath
Now instead of quiet evenings around the farm,
we kids would have to rush home after school,
quick do all the barn work, gobble down supper,
and report behind the barn
Tnere Father would be, usually waiting, and
making dire threats about what would happen if so
much corn didn't get picked before dark In the
wagon hitched to the tractor we would scramble,
and off it would be to the corn patch
We were each assigned two rows to do, with the
wagon parked along side of the corn Being the
smallest, (my younger sister was usually exempt
from the work), 1 was assigned the two rows
closest to the wagon But that also meant that 1
had to move the tractor up the rows every now
and then, and pick up the corn that had missed
the wagon, not to mention watch for the wild
pitches and dive bomb throws my brother and
father would let fly every now and then to make
sure I was awake.
And on we would work until the welcome dark
would release us from the weary tasks.
I never knew that the old corn rows could be so
long, and so filled with corn And you had to be
careful not too miss any ears for Father had a
sharp eye that could pickout an overlooked ear at
20 paces
Saturday became a real day to dread because
long before you even thought about crawling out of
bed, you heard the old putt-putt of the tractor
starting up, along with Father’s famous “rise and
shine” whistle. By the time he had the rig hitched
up, he expected his children to report for duty,
and we were there. One didn’t lounge around
when Daddy called
Back out to the cornfield we’d trek, with the
boredom relieved by the radio taken along. And if
he was in an exceptionally good mood, (in other
words, if you seemed to be working quite
diligently), you could sometimes persuade Father
to tell war stories, or ‘‘when I was young" stories,
or "do you remember” stories Really, we’d listen
to anything to pass the time And when the con
servation was flowing fast and smooth, time didn’t
seem to take near so long
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Finally, the evening came when the last row was
finished and the whole field had been conquered
by our band of three marauding corn pickers.
What a beautiful sight.
Father must have thought we did okay, because
we were all treated to an ice cream sundae at the
local dairy in celebration.
And life was simpler then, because Daddy could
sleep--the corn was in the crib.
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