Talk:Corn dolly

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With the advent of the Combine harvester, the old-fashioned, long-stemmed and hollow-stemmed wheat varieties were replaced with knee-high, pithy varieties.

Modern wheat is knee-high because some herbicide is applied to it. The herbicide (in a low dose) does not kill the wheat, but just makes it grow shorter than it would naturally. This is done because wheat on long stems is more prone to windfall, especially modern varieties that have large and heavy ears. (See for a -- probably copyrighted -- example of the damage done: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/~kburch/harvest.JPG ) -- dnjansen 13:30 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

This sounds like an Urban (or in this case rural) Legend. See[1], an abstract that mentions different height varieties among wheat. Rmhermen 13:52 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Not quite. I have received this information directly from (agricultural) civil servants and farmers in Switzerland. I admit however that it is 5 to 10 years old. The article you mention contains two new points to me: there are wheat varieties which grow short without applying herbicides, and short wheat not only has advantages. Interesting... This may lead to the conclusion that the practice of applying herbicide can be abandoned. Are these wheat varieties already in commercial use? -- dnjansen 20:35 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Pictures?

No pictures? Can't be that hard! - David Gerard (talk) 20:23, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

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Misspelling

The word “Tömte” is misspelled: it should be “Tomte”. The explaintation of them as “Yule dwarfs” is also wrong. Please read Wikipedia’s entry about tomte.

2009-02-04 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

Just a comment about eidolon eid - comes up in Norwegian to mean owned, so locally may have meant the grain was owned by "spirits" and some type of arrangement is made to trade.

Eid Ul Adha festival of sacrifice in Arabic culture

Something to think about, and possibly add more info, I was curious to the background.

2010-11-14 Jane Marriott, Toronto Canada

My main point is that the word tomte was misspelled. O and Ö are considered different letters in Swedish so the difference is considered important to us Swedes.

2011-01-03 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

Etymology

The article says "dolly may be a corruption of idol or may have come directly from the Greek word eidolon (apparition); that which represents something else". These both seem a bit far-fetched to me: people don't call their own religious items "idols", and "eidolon" would be a rather scholarly classical borrowing for agricultural peasants to use. Isn't it just "dolly", like a doll? Equinox (talk) 14:55, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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