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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. Jimmie crank corn ...
The smaller piece is embossed "Family Corn Sheller," "Brady Mfg. Co. Mount Joy, ... While the larger has a long crank for good single-hand leverage, ...
The corn sheller, which looked somewhat like a sausage grinder, was mounted onto the side of a wooden box. An ear of corn was placed into the top of the sheller as the hand crank was turned.
If the machine shown above were the most advanced sheller available, at 80 bushels of corn per day it would take 10,562,500 days or 28,938 years to shell that much corn. That’s a lot of cranking ...