Posted by Bill(Wis) on September 08, 2023 at 07:49:22 from (67.86.36.109):
In Reply to: Re: Picking corn posted by Geo-TH,In on September 07, 2023 at 14:10:01:
I believe the term ''picking corn'' goes back to the days when it was picked by hand. then, mechanical pickers were introduced. First ones were single row and either mounted to a tractor or pulled behind a tractor. The ones we used didn't do a very good job of husking so two or three of us would sit on the wagon pulled behind the picker and pull the remaining husks off from the cobs as they came tumbling into the wagon.
The dairy farmers didn't bother shelling the corn off from the cobs. Most beef farmers didn't either. But for chickens and pigs it was best to shell the corn. Corn shellers were used for that. Here is a Minneapolis Moline corn sheller which was considered to be the best corn sheller on the market in 1954. These were usually available thru the local feed mill and towed out to the farm yard with the feed mill truck and then powered with the farmer's tractor. Corn on the cob would be shoveled into the left end hopper and the shelled corn would go up the elevator into a wagon, truck, trailer and the empty cobs would be blown on a pile and could be used for bedding or fuel. .10c per bushel for the service. And then came the combines which could do it all. Here in Central Siberia we call it combining corn or combining beans or whatever. The term ''shelling'' is never heard. It's a regional thing like ''plowing corn''. People around here wouldn't know what you were talking about.
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And then came the combines which could do it all. Here in Central Siberia we call it combining corn or combining beans or whatever. The term ''shelling'' is never heard. It's a regional thing like ''plowing corn''. People around here wouldn't know what you were talking about.