Corn Sheller – Red Wooden Case
Corn Shelling
Corn Sheller
Above are some antique corn shellers that were at the Old Threshers Reunion [youtube] in Mt Pleasant, Iowa, 2009. Manual corn shellers were improved enough to work smoothly by the 1870s. See the a picture of a corn sheller from 1870.
The early shellers required manual feeding of the cobs of corn; later, and now, they automatically feed into the corn sheller by a conveyor.
Check out our investigation on how to make corn flakes and other cereal.
