Corn Pickers Galore

I wonder when was the last time this many corn pickers were assembled in one place! I never really got a count, in part because they were scattered over the grounds, but there had to be well over 25. Probably one of the big farm shows in the early 60's would likely be the last time this many pickers were in one place.

Lavern McCarty of Prescott, Iowa (my father in-law) examines a John Deere No. 101 one row picker like the one he used for several years. He had been looking for one at shows for several years.

Mechanical corn pickers dramatically reduced the amount of backbreaking hand labor on America's farms. On the downside, they also took many hands and arms when operators tried to unplug the machines with out stopping the mechanisms.