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From Shirley Rose Fallin

What I saw

The weather report say it would rain next day, I rototilled my garden so the rain would soak in. It rained, I checked on my garden next day & discovered that one row of my corn had been knocked flat to the ground, every stalk bent about an inch from ground level, all the stalks were as straight in a row as if you used a yard stick, nothing out of line. The next row had a section about 10 ft. long, right in the middle of the row, just as straight and about an inch from the ground. The ground was soft from rototilling, and wet, and not one footprint of any kind in the dirt. No human or animal did it

Where I saw it

This was in my garden, in the Shenandoah Valley, near the Blue Ridge Mt. The corn that was knocked down was straightened back up, & lived, but ears that grew were small, miss-shappened & moldy. Corn that hadn't been knocked down, grew good corn.

Lessons Learned

  • I can't think of anything I learned, it remained a mystery.

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