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 ...

In the market for a 1900s fainting couch or a headcheese sausage grinder? How about a brass blowtorch or a hand corn sheller? In his 60 years of auctioneering, Clarence Schlimpert has rarely seen such ...

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 ...

FREMONT - A local woman and a team of vendors are bringing the fun of finding hidden treasures to Fremont with an antique store featuring handmade goods and historic pieces. Carol Walters opened ...

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 ...

Gone were the days when farmers in far-flung barangays in Alabel, Sarangani would have a hard time transporting their produce. This is because the Libreng Serbisyo program of the municipal government ...

For Elisabeth Patch Lyman, continuing her family's legacy via an historic project that will forever be embedded on Austin Peay State University's campus is priceless. Patch Lyman is the daughter of ...

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