By the 1950s, the self-propelled combine harvester began gaining traction. Even so, many farmers still picked ear corn, stored it in cribs and processed it through portable belt-driven shellers. The ...
Time travel is possible at the Yesteryear Farm Show, a showcase of what farming looked like before modern luxuries. Tom Lukow drives a 1950 Minneapolis-Moline ZA tractor while setting up for the ...
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 ...