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 ...

When I was a small boy growing up in Stokes County, my family used various methods of harvesting crops on the farm. Since mechanized farming was still in its infancy, most families resorted to ...

In the spirit of all things agricultural, a young hand enthusiastically takes on the chore of shelling some corn with the help of Michael Palmer, the corn sheller's owner. In the spirit of all things ...