In the 50's my dad tried to get through the corn twice, once to cultivate and then to "Lay By". Sometimes the lay by trip was done with disk hiller's and some times with sweeps (4 per row) but always at above 4 mph and included side dressing with Ammonium Nitrate. Cultivating was slower until we got the flat sweeps in the 60's about the time I became chief corn cultivator. By that time the pointy heads were telling us to reduce cultivation so we eliminated the lay by trip and replaced the Ammonium Nitrate with gaseous Ammonia which was much easier. Our corn yields just about doubled along then. In those days we had only one way plows (right) so my dad started using a plowing method called "back furring" which involved starting in the center of a tract and plowing out to the edge using the harrow tracts as a guide so that even odd shaped fields could be plowed with no "water strip" from the corners or at intervals in the field. Plowing out those row hills (cross plowing in some cases) with the harrow to set up the back furring was a very rough job. I did away with the disk hillers to save my back.
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