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 ...

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.

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