I was told that you should allow the corn to dry in the field on the stalk. We wanted to try drying the corn in our house and thought that it might look 'old-timey' to have them hanging from the beams in our log cabin. We also left some corn to dry in the field.  The corn on the left was allowed to dry in the field. The corn on the right dried hanging from the rafters in our house. The corn on the left had it's husk left on in the field while drying. The corn on the right was dried in it's 'open' state.  We recently brought in the sweet corn which had been left in the field and it wasn't completly dried, (unlike that which dried in the house), so we pulled back the husk and hung it up to finish drying.