Posted by Dick2 on March 26, 2013 at 12:00:57 from (174.22.224.173):
In Reply to: Re: Picture for Today posted by Phil Scarborough on March 26, 2013 at 11:33:40:
Years ago, it was common to plant corn in 42" row spacing. A wire with a "trip" was used to trip the planter to drop seed every 42". The planter typically dropped 3 -4 seeds per hill. This was commonly caller "Checked Corn" in our area.
I can tell you from experience that running a picker into a cluster of 3-4 stalks spaced 42" apart was hard on the picker and the tractor powering the picker.
This would allow the farmers to cultivate and also cross cultivate to control weeds before chemical weed control became available. It was also thought at the time that extensive cultivating increased yields.
We stopped planting checked corn after Dad got rid of the last team of horses on the place in 1950.
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