Discover how corn shelling bees and early mechanical shellers transformed American agriculture and strengthened rural ...

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 ...

Mark McDonald visits the home of Jim & Phyllis Moffet near Modesto, Illinois. Mark McDonald visits the home of Jim & Phyllis Moffet near Modesto, Illinois. Collectors of antique agriculture tools and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee Department of Agriculture commissioners out-shelled the competition from the House and Senate at the state's Ag Day celebration on Tuesday. The annual Ag Day highlights ...

While they were out of the classroom on a sunny Presidents Day, children who visited Farmer Monday at the Lake Metroparks Farmpark in Kirtland learned about preparing maple sugar, shelling corn and ...

Dad, well into his sixth decade, surprised us when he said he would be joining a corn-shelling crew. The hourly wage was low, but he didn’t need the money anyway. Shelling corn was hard work under ...