I remember the shocking process was to further the drying of the corn to preserve the ears until they could later be removed for storage and the dry fodder was used as feed. I remember the dry stalks and fodder being chopped at the barn and blown into the dry mow to later be fed to the cattle and it also contributed some to the animal bedding.Green Shcks were brought to the ensilage cutter set up at the silo and were fed into the cutter and blown into the silo to make silage. So two processes were applied to shocked corn.Dryer corn being shocked to further dry down of the ears and the saving of the fodder for feed and bedding and the cutting of greener corn to make ensilage. I don't have any idea how the cutter bundled the stalks and tied them and then tripped it out for later shocking. It was a noisy machine and I was very young so it was and amazing thing to be around. Dad pulled it with a AC UC model tractor and I thought it was the prettiest Tractor in the neighborhood.
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