Bruce D. Bomberger, curator at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, say that these two tools are corn shellers. "Shelling" is the process of removing the hard, dried kernels of field corn from their ...

In the market for a 1900s fainting couch or a headcheese sausage grinder? How about a brass blowtorch or a hand corn sheller? In his 60 years of auctioneering, Clarence Schlimpert has rarely seen such ...

The sounds of cracking, grinding corn kernels was only overcome by boisterous laughter and shouts of excitement. Fourth-grade students from Creekside Elementary School crowded around the antique corn ...

The corn sheller shown in our engraving has, however, some advantages which we have not met with in other efficient machines, the most prominent of which is its cheapness, the price of single machines ...

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The most important time for any farmer to be present on the farm is at the time to plant and time to harvest. The harvest handling can either make or break the farmer. Maize farmers all over Kenya are ...