Several attempts have been made to construct a machine that would husk corn rapidly by Steam or horse power, but so far each attempt has been attended with slight success. Husking by hand was ...

Irvin (also known as Irvan) Bauman, an unmarried, 22-year-old farmer from Congerville ... the Pantagraph reported that machines were expected to husk "fully half" of the corn crop in many Central ...

However, he liked husking corn much more than milking cows by hand or machine. The responsibility fell to his sons when they were old enough. An old corn binder that once was pulled by horses was ...

He and Tom Kessler, his business partner for about five years, went to work on building a better machine to husk sweet corn in a one-stall garage. In 1975 they founded A&K Development Co., and in ...