Len, cultivating corn brought back memories to me as well. I was born after the check row planting was no longer used but did get quite involved as a kid when I was about 10 in the early 1950's. I had to walk behind the tractor and cultivator while dad did the tractor work. This was usually an all day thing for a few days at least a couple of times a year. My job was to uncover every corn plant which got covered with dirt. This was a constant bending over job and even a young kid's back would certainly be very sore at the end of the day. The plus side of this effort was finding all the arrowheads which were uncovered in the process. I had a nail keg full of them after a few years of helping with the cultivating. Another couple of things I remember was about all the farmers used the older horse drawn 2 row planters that they converted to 3 point hitches. The one we used was an old IHC model that dad used with horses as long as a neighbor still had some he could use at planting time. He grew up with horses and I think enjoyed working them as he handled them better then the tractor. The old corn planter is still in the back of the machine from the last time it was used probably in the 1960's. Also, I certainly remember those trip wires you made mention of and if you attend an old farm auction here in south central Missouri to this day they still come out of the sheds and barns at the estate auctions. I don't know of any use for them today but I've seen several. It must have been a very time consuming job to move that wire over after each pass as it had to be done on both ends of the field. Did someone other then the person doing the planting move the wires as it would take a person at each end? Sounds like a corn planting team would rival a thrashing crew at meal time if that was the case. Thanks for the past memories of my youth, Hal.
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