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

Discover how early American farmers shelled corn by hand, the role of corn shelling bees, and how mechanical shellers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THURMONT -- Inspired by their visit to Delaware for the World Championship Punkin Chunkin seven years ago, Kristen Lawyer and her husband, Jan, built their own pumpkin cannon. The cannon has been a ...