Abstract: A corn harvesting apparatus is set forth wherein a shovel-like hopper includes a conveyor cylinder mounted rearwardly of the hopper for directing harvested corn to a combine storage. Rotatably mounted forwardly of the hopper is a harvesting cylinder formed with coaxially aligned rows of spikes about the periphery with a stacked series of barbed ends formed thereon. The corn ears are pierced and directed to the conveyor and are stripped from the spikes by a stripper plate formed with slots aligned circumferentially with the rows of spikes.