This is my Uncle Bob Alfs and a wagon of corn. Notice that the corn was harvested with the grain still on the ear.

This was the machine that was used to gather the ears of corn from the cornstalks. One row was harvested on each side of the tractor on which it was mounted. After harvest the picker was removed so the tractor could be used for other farm operations. This was a vast improvement from a few years earlier when corn had to be "shucked" by hand and the ears thrown into a wagon! At the time of these photos, we thought that this was modern agriculture!