Wash your mill or grinder on occasion to prevent mold from surviving inside of it and spreading to any corn you crack. The chorus can be mystifying to modern listeners, but its straightforward meaning is that someone is roughly milling ("cracking") the old master's corn in preparation for turning it into hominy [31] or liquor.

Futurama: In the episode "Bendin' in the Wind", Bender sings a variant replacing "Jimmy" with "Fry, Leela, and Bender". A trial in at North Dakota State University compared animal performance when feeding rations of whole corn, rolled corn, and ground corn in yearling steers. Parturient in parturient scelerisque nibh lectus quam a natoque adipiscing a vestibulum hendrerit et pharetra fames nunc natoque dui.

The song was first published (with two distinct sets of lyrics) in Baltimore and Boston in 1846, although it is sometimes mistakenly dated to 1844. Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more. Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world.

All the same, Seeger claimed to have been present when Alan Lomax [63] first taught the song to Burl Ives for a CBS radio show [62] and their duet at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 1993 was Ives' last public performance. The present song is generally credited to Dan Emmett's Virginia Minstrels, [10] whose shows in New York City in the mid-1840s helped raise minstrelsy to national attention. A local racing homer friend told me a year later that he had experienced the same trouble that year from the same brand of badly-cracked corn.Cracking the corn kernels makes them easier for animals to eat and digest, and it serves as an ideal supplement for poultry, swine, and cows.