This made hay and straw a more marketable commodity. For Special Jobs Apple Cider Press Apples from the orchard are washed but not peeled or cored. They are put in the barrel of the apple cider press and the juice is squeezed out to make apple cider. Butter Churn For centuries, the butter churn has been used to make butter. Cream Separator Fresh milk is put into the hand-turned cream separator which separates the milk from the cream by gravity.
Milk comes out of one spigot and cream the other.
This hand or belt powered machine cracks shelled corn into a finer mixture either to be used as feed for the farm cattle, fowl or, with the plates set tighter, to make corn meal for cooking. A corn sheller is used to remove the corn kernels from the cob. When the dry ears of corn grate against the teeth of the round shelling gear, the kernels separate from the cob. Shelled corn is fed to the chickens, ducks, geese, and other animals, and is used as seed for the new corn crop. The large corn sheller is used for large quantities of dried ear corn.