Howdy; Linda, your shucking peg was really up-town! Ours were whittled out of hickory or oak. And you left the "pack-saddle's" out of your corn harvesting. For the uninitiated, pack-saddles are caterpillars that feed on corn in late September. They are pretty, having a light green body color, a brown 'saddle' and two horns about a quarter of an inch long on each end. If you touch any one of those 'horns' you will immediately regret it. Their sting is something furious. Corn knives were also used to cut the weeds from the potato patches prior to harvest. David. M. Burke deburgh@scescape.net