Pihler-OnVer.—The K,ysi corn-husker and st a I k-citt er (Pig. 18) is one of the silagcsmaking nntehines valued into bein, by the introduction of silos, but is to operate on crops of corn cultivated for the grain as well as the fodder. The machine delivers at I me end the ears of corn, st 6141141 of husks and silks, and at the other end 1 he chopped silage. By husking as soon as the kernels of corn have matured. hut before the plant has become with ered by standing to long in the field, the value of the fodder for silage may be conserved.
This machine is mounted on four wheels, and weighs, with the two conveyers, one ton. It is operated with about the same amount of power as the large thrashers in common use. The entire corn-plants are fed in. butts first, from wagons, as they come from the field. The stalks are seized by a pair of rollers (seen at top of open Fig. 19) 3 in. thick and 20 in. long, which turn in slotted bear ings, separable, but prevented by strong springs from separating far enough to admit between them any ears of corn. The upper roller is
armed with projections to snap off the ear-stems ; and the gravity of the ears aids to present them to the snapper-roller favorably for its work. The ears in their husks then drop upon two pairs of husking-rollers, inclined at such an angle as to clear the space near the snapping-roller and rotating at a right angle with it. The husking-rollers, which are 3 in. thick and 3 ft. long, are fur nished with steel pins projecting and meshing into corresponding holes in each other. In each pair of rollers the upper faces revolve toward one another, their pins stripping off the corn-husks and silks, drawing them down through and dropping them on a carrier below, by which they are conveyed to the feed-cutter and mingled with the cut stalks for the silo. The husked ears are skidded from the rollprs to a conveyer, which delivers them separately. The machine requires seven or eight attendants hauling and feeding.