We pulled the spring tooth through mellow plowed ground here in Iowa. In hard ground the spring teeth would pull back and just scratch on top of the ground. The spring tooth was the last implement pulled across the field to make it smooth for the planter. A week to two weeks after the corn was planted and before the corn plant had peeked up out of the ground we would pull the drag harrow across the field to kill any freshly germinated weeds that hadn't taken root yet. This was before herbicides. Some farmers pulled the drag across the field at an angle to the corn rows to level the field a little better and drag the soil into low spots in the row to bury the weeds in the low spots the harrow teeth did not touch. If the farmer ran the drag at an angle when the corn was just starting to peek through the heavy tractor killed or stunted the corn in the wheel tracks and you could see the tractor tracks in the emerged field until mid July when the corn was tall. after the corn was up we would cultivate, and cultivate, and cultivate some more to keep the weeds killed until the corn had grown tall enough to shade the row. And those were the good old days. We would cultivate and bale hay, cultivate and bale and on and on it went.
Oh, I forgot one more thing. Before the corn was cultivated the first time we would walk the field to pick up the ricks the plow, spring tooth and drag would bring to the top. What fun it was!
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