Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — Corn Slitters. [ARTICLE]

Corn Slitters.

A now way of eating corn on the cob is to slit the corn hulls while on the cob with a small nickel “slitter,” ssyß the New York Times. This cuts five rows of the corn hulls at one time, so that one eats the grain and leaves the hulls on the cob,' or it lp used to extract, for cooking, the milky grains from the hulls and leaves sdl the hard part on the cob as waste. The “slitters” cost 35 cents each. When used at table, of course there must be Individual provision In the number placed.