Fall is just around the corner and with fall comes harvest time. This week’s historic treasure is a corn sheller, a machine designed to make the farmers work a little easier. Corn shellers came in a ...

Of the more than 200 manufacturers of agricultural implements in the U. S., the greatest by far is the International Harvester Co. Another, far smaller, far less staunch, is the Advance-Rumely Co.

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 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 ...

When I was a small boy growing up in Stokes County, my family used various methods of harvesting crops on the farm. Since mechanized farming was still in its infancy, most families resorted to ...

Turn back the decades to a time when corn was picked without the use of $100,000 combines. That’s what will be done in Alta Vista on Saturday afternoon as people celebrate the way corn was harvested ...