On pages 382-383 of the March 1974 issue of National Geographic, there is a picture of my cousin Bob, on his Dad's (Harold) 3020 JD and 237 JD picker, with one of the JD wagons that I described in my other post, picking on the family farm west of Gretna, Nebraska

National Geographic quaintly describes the picker as a "corn gobbler".

The corn would have been a Funk's G Hybrid variety, and would have been cribbed in one of the 17, 2000 bushel Behlen wire cribs that my uncles had on the place.

A few years ago I went by the empty Horn (my last name) Manufacturing plant at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, and there was a construction company in some of the buildings that was named Grell Construction (my aunt's maiden name)

-- Edited by Art From De Leon on Monday 14th of May 2012 09:25:45 AM