Author : Michael J. Conry
Description : The use of corn stands in Ireland in the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th centuries was closely linked with the arrival of the brown rat in 1722. The rat caused massive damage to stacks of corn which were kept over for the spring threshing. Farmers devised, some 250 years ago, the simple but effective technique of building stacks of corn on mushrooms as a means of protecting the corn until it was threshed in the spring.
This book covers the distribution, primary and secondary uses, types and construction, building and thatching stacks, methods of threshing the corn, grain and straw uses as well as accidents associated with corn and rickstands.
Informations : Hardback, 117pp, in full colour with 66 black and white (old) and colour photographs and etchings, published (2004) by Chapelstown Press
Price : €20 (Postage extra)
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