ABSTRACT
WHEN the harvest of different kinds of corn has been gathered and stored in capacious barns built specially for the purpose, they find it more advisable to defer all the threshing till the depths of winter when the nights are longer. Then, for an agreed wage, or an equivalent amount of corn, two, three, four men, or even more, lay the sheaves to be threshed upon a wide floor of level beams, and with flame from pitch-pine giving light in the middle of the barn they strike and clean the grains with flails.1
