AUTUMN
Autumn is the season that falls between summer
and winter. There are many changes that begin in this fascinating
season. Days become shorter. Leaves of trees turn from green to vibrant
red, yellow and orange. Trees need sunlight to keep their leaves a lively
green. Without sunlight leaves turn colors. The grass is no longer blanketed
with dew but with frost, almost every morning, as temperatures
reach the freezing point. Animals start storing up a food supply to last
through the long winter months. These changes occur as we adjust from the
heat of the summer to the chill of the winter.
Autumn is traditionally harvest time when the
farmers would cut their crops to prepare them for storage or to sell. A
lot of farmers plow their fields in the fall so it will give them a head start
for the spring. September is also the time that farmers plant winter wheat. It
grows until it gets cold and then it goes dormant, which means it stops
growing, until spring when it starts growing again.
Most farm animals love corn, its store extra
body fat, but it has to pick at just the right time so the farmers can have a
supply all winter long. Most corn today is picked with a picker-sheller or a
combine, both machines shell the corn off the cob and then the farmer dumps it
in a gas batch dryer which dries it to certain hardness, otherwise it will get
moldy in storage. Some farmers still just pick the whole ear with a regular
corn picker and store it in a corn crib, if they are going to just pick it,
they leave it in the field longer so it will dry. They test the moisture by
shelling the corn off the cob and putting a handful into a moisture tester.
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