10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORN-PICKER»
Discover the use of
corn-picker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
corn-picker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Yet, mechanized corn harvesting finally brought corn to the foreground as a
major cash crop. Hand harvesting precluded this, simply for lack of manpower. By
1940 Oliver had developed a reasonably efficient corn picker by then-
contemporary ...
By E. W. LEHMANN Head of Department of Agricultural Engineering, University
of Illinois ONE man with a two-row tractor- driven corn picker can harvest in a few
days and with comparative ease a crop that might require weeks of arduous ...
Quite simply, this was a Model I corn picker equipped with an ordinary cylinder-
type sheller. Shown here in operation, the Model IS was suitable for yields in the
70-100 bushel per acre category. For 1950, these were indeed excellent yields!
4
Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques
Plans were to dispense with the horses needed to pull the machine, once the
mechanism was perfected, leading to a self-propelled corn picker. Despite the
publicity at the time, this attempt to build a commercially successful corn picker
eluded ...
5
The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical ...
Wherever corn is husked, either for the market or for feeding purposes, the corn
picker is more generally used each year. The hard work of husking by hand is
fast being replaced by the easier, faster, and less expensive mechanical method.
6
Ford Tractor Implements
One row with husker. hydraulic lift equipped Corn picker. One row with snapper
Hydraulic lift kit (or installarion on all model EH or ES pickers Blower unit kit for
installarion on the 1950 model EH or EH-H picker Blower unit kit for installarion
on ...
Chester Peterson Rod Beemer
7
Chilton Tractor Journal Vol VIII No 1
With the Avery Tractor and a Corn Picker, One Man Handles the Entire Outfit Left:
Titan Tractor and Deering Corn Picker, With the Ear ... Tractor Pulling McCormick
Picker in Wisconsin Huber Tractor Pulling a McCormick Corn Picker in a Large.
8
Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, ...
Corn Picker The commonly accepted colloquial name for the machine that
replaced binders and the whole old method of harvesting corn is a corn picker.
The picker did not (does not) cut the corn stalk off, but merely strips the ear off as
the ...
9
Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity
Few farmers had purchased the mechanical corn picker in the years prior to the
Depression. The machine attracted attention in World War I, and again near the
late 1920s. A few reports were optimistic about the harvester's use in the late ...
10
The Organic Grain Grower: Small-Scale, Holistic Grain ...
This is often the case when an abandoned corn picker spends years out in the
elements. Sometimes it's as simple as squirting some penetrating oil into a
bearing or bushing and encouraging a shaft to turn with a pipe wrench. You'll
want to ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CORN-PICKER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
corn-picker is used in the context of the following news items.
Fifty years after winning National Corn Picking Contest, Albany man …
Albany farmer Arlyn Zee still has the Allis-Chalmers tractor and corn-picker that helped him win the National Corn Picking Contest 50 years ago ... «Eau Claire Country Today, Sep 13»
