Corn planting rhyme?

[Judith Moore]

I think it's supposed to add up to 4:

1 for the [something]
1 for the crow
1 for the [something else]
and 1 to grow.

Does anyone know the whole thing? It's been rattling around in my head since I
saw a post on growing corn.

[King Pineapple]

Seems to me I saw Al Bundy recite one from "Farmer Iggy's Almanac" on an
episode of "Married With Children", but I don't remember the exact words...

BTW, it's "CAWN", not "Corn".

Judith Moore <judg...@cs.com> wrote in message
news:20000701142209...@ng-fq1.news.cs.com...

[Joan Ellis]

In rec.gardens.edible, on 01 Jul 2000 18:22:09 GMT, judg...@cs.com
(Judith Moore) wrote about Corn planting rhyme?:

>I think it's supposed to add up to 4:
>
>1 for the [something]
>1 for the crow
>1 for the [something else]
>and 1 to grow.
>
>Does anyone know the whole thing? It's been rattling around in my head since I
>saw a post on growing corn.

I've always heard this:

1 for the blackbird,
1 for the crow,
1 to rot
And 1 to grow.

Hope this helps.
Joan

[olin]

http://www.california-books.com/grains.htm
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes/rot.html

[Bill Morgan]

In article <20000701142209...@ng-fq1.news.cs.com>,
judg...@cs.com (Judith Moore) wrote:

> I think it's supposed to add up to 4:
>
> 1 for the [something]
> 1 for the crow
> 1 for the [something else]
> and 1 to grow.

I think there are different versions of this. Only Crow and Grow are
constant, for obvious reasons: they rhyme. The other sources of mortality
and the number of seeds vary.

One version:

One for the cutworm,
one for the crow,
one to rot
and one to grow.

--
Bill Morgan <wtmo...@pilot.msu.edu>
"Those who do not learn the lessons of science fiction are condemned to
live them."

[Larry Blanchard]

Bill Morgan wrote:
>
> I think there are different versions of this. Only Crow and Grow are
> constant, for obvious reasons: they rhyme. The other sources of mortality
> and the number of seeds vary.
>

The version I've heard the most is

1 for the blackbirds,
1 for the crows,
1 for the rabbits,
and 1 to grow.

--
Larry Blanchard
"Anyone who wants to be elected shouldn't be" - Will Rogers

[BeeCrofter]

One for the rook
and one for the crow

one to rot
and one to grow

Refers to broadcasting seed as opposed to drilling as the sucess rate for
broadcast seed is lower.

Enter Jethro Tull

Tom

There is an extra Bee in the Email address after the AOL.com

[Judith Moore]

Thanks for the URLs. Now I'm *completely* confused! :-)

[Judith Moore]

Thanks to all for different versions and URLs. I think I'll go for blackbird,
crow, cutworm. And then butter and salt!