Martha Jones is believed to be the first Black woman to receive a U.S. patent in 1868 for her improvement to the “Corn Husker, Sheller.” Her invention made it possible to husk, shell, cut and ...

Harvesting corn in a $300,000, eight-row combine is a solitary, highly mechanized business. Such was not always the case. Up through the late 1930s, most corn was picked not by ...

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 ...

Nearly 4,000 people crowded the F.I. Taylor farm near New Berlin on Nov. 21, 1924, for the first Illinois State Corn Husking contest. The competition, sponsored by Prairie Farmer magazine, continue… ...