he summer fires that I spoke of in a past article (, October issue) presented me with my first really good bag of the year. The fires that swept across the corn fields at the height of the heatwave were travelling so fast that much of the corn wasn’t completely burned off and had been left lying on the ground – scorched but still on their heads. The crop was unharvestable because the straw had burned through and collapsed, so there was no way the combine could collect the scattered wheat off the ground and it was
