The tractor coughed but didn’t catch, so the old farmer on the ground yelled up to the old farmer behind the wheel. “The black button,” Don Magee said. “You push it in.” And then it roared to life, an ...

Explore the history of corn harvesting in American agriculture, from hand-husked fields with horses to early mechanized ...

The corn husker is concave-pointed, with a 1-inch-wide leather strap, Royer says, which is tied to the husker and has holes in the leather for sizing. Many readers remembered using this type of tool ...