Cornjerker
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Cornjerker
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A cornjerker is a laborer who harvested crops in times before modern machinery, when sweet corn was pulled or jerked from the stalk. The leaves were shucked off and the golden ears were thrown in a wooden wagon pulled by a team of mules. This was called "cornjerking". In other parts of the United States, this harvesting process may have been known as corn snapping, corn shucking, or corn husking. The invention of the corn picking machine has made this hand harvesting process obsolete. By using m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornjerker
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2024-04-07T01:50:23Z
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