I just thought some of you would like to see what corn in the crib looked like. That picture was copied from a slide. I may have taken it about 40 years ago. Corn keeps better in the ear as air can get to it better. Shelled corn needs to be put in storage with less then 15% moisture or it will heat when the weather warms in the spring. Not much corn was harvested with a combine back when I took this picture. Now they have drying bins and there are hybrids that dry down better in the fall.
When we raised corn, we had a sheller, some times we shelled it after it dried some, but we fed a lot of ground ear corn, as well as ground shelled corn.
We ground it with a Letz grinder, a hammer mill, then a grinder mixer, we wore out about three grinder mixers. I don't know it anyone even makes the darn thkings anymore.