It gave a new meaning to being “outstanding in your field.” My son-in-law called to invite us to help put up some of his neighbor’s fresh corn.

We also got to enjoy series wins for softball and baseball and two Huskers drafted into the NFL. That was a pretty realistic number, but I do hope that Matt Rhule is able to push that number up in ...

This improved corn husker consists in two cylinders grooved around their circumferences, and armed with teeth, so that they meet at such an angle as to draw away the husk, and throw the corn into ...

Corn huskers should plan to gather on the morning of Sept. 23 on the Gerken farm near Oak Center to test their skills against others at stripping the husk from an ear of corn.

Her invention made it possible to husk, shell, cut and separate corn all in one step. Jones’ operation allowed for the advancement in automatic agricultural processes farmers use today.

The more accomplished huskers competed against each other in local, county, state and national contests, and crowds numbering in the tens of thousands would gather in fields to watch men "bang ...

The top tool, many of our readers knew, is a hand-held corn husker. You can guess at the function of this month's new tool, bottom, from the collection of the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum ...

This article was originally published with the title “Improved Corn Husker and Feed Cutter” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 13 No. 43 (July 1858), p. 337 doi:10.1038 ...