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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (123391)	10/29/2006 6:36:43 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 225578

<<Ah, that would be why they call them combines...>> And you win the rotten carrot for being right. Old days they picked corn on the ears and ran them through a sheller to get the kernels off the cob. The ears were stored in cribs that were semi open and dried over the winter. The combines take the ears off the stalk, remove the husks. Then kinda crush the ear so the kernels get loose and knock the kernels off through a series of rollers. Chaff, the stuff other than kernels goes out the back. The grain goes into silos and gets dried to 18% moisture with heat and fans, keeps mold from growing on it.