Remember Dad doing all 3 methods back in the 1950's
Check Row used a wire stretched across the field with special stake at each end that held the wire. Wire had a joint every 38 to 40" that would trip a mechanism on the planter and drop the seed kernels in a hill. Get to end of the field, release the wire, turn around, stop and move stake and hook wire back in trip mechanism.
The purpose of this method was to make rows both vertically and horizontally across the the field so that you could cross cultivate to get weeds out between the hills.
Hill dropping was similar but no wire. There was a cam on the planter that would trip the drop mechanism but did not maintain uniform spacing from row to row.
The above methods dropped two or 3 kernels in a hill. Drilling dropped single seeds at shorter intervals across the field. End rows were usually drilled.
I never ran the planter, but did spend many summer hours on a John Deere A or B with 2 row cultivator. Cultivate 2 rows, skip two until you got across the field and then do same coming back.
I'd get across the field, look across the road at the neighbor with his 4 row and realized if I had his 4 row, when I got across the field I could be home watching TV rather being only half done and working my way back.
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