Up through the late 1930s, most corn was picked not by machine, but by hand ... A good picker - also known as a husker, shucker or even jerker - could work two or three rows simultaneously ...

It is designed for husking corn, and at the same time crushing and cutting the stalk so as to be suitable for fodder. We illustrated the first machine of this inventor—Robert Bryson, of ...

The work was accomplished ... However, successful machines did not appear on the market until the 1890s. The earliest patent on a corn husker, No. 18,396, was issued to John Heich on Oct. 13 ...

But the first sign that manual corn husking ... mechanical corn husker, which was given at the same time as the contest. In the hour and 20 minutes that the men competed, the machine turned ...

Workers complete work on the huge corn sign May 9 ... air to offer their services to the pole sitter. The Eastern Iowa Corn Huskers competition on Dec. 19, 1933, was held at the theater with ...