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PLANTING CHECKED CORN

Before herbicide was available for weed control, farmers used a check-row system to plant corn in a checkerboard pattern. This allowed them to more thoroughly cultivate their fields by cultivating lengthwise and crosswise. You can see it's a fairly complicated system, however, it was widely used well into the early 1900s.

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  • @wrenchguy
    @wrenchguy5 ай бұрын

    checkerboad layout fields were use by 2 person planters, the youngster hand checked a hill at the intersection of the checkerboard. this was b4 wire knot checking. thx.

  • @eschloz
    @eschloz2 жыл бұрын

    sounds just like my Dad planted corn. I was born in 1938...i remember watching him with a planter checking rows. He used his horses to plant corn with a planter designed for a tractor until the early 1950"s.

  • @rightsideofthegrass8114
    @rightsideofthegrass81142 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid on the farm, we used this planter, with checked rows. What he explains with the wire is right - strung from end to end. One had to be certain the end stakes were positioned right, so that the cross rows were straight. When the wire passed through the double roller assembly, the knot in the wire triggered the seed drop. We intended to drop three seeds per each trip. This meant the "hill" of corn had three plants. I can still hear the "click" of the planter as the knot passed through the trigger mechanism. Yes, we did cultivate top to bottom, side to side, in order to control weeks. We used a single row cultivator. One person drove the tractor, the other rode the cultivator to raise and lower the shovels at the end of the row. Even though it was cross-cultivated we still went through the field with hoe to work next to the "hill." Our planter was formerly a horse-drawn machine. We cut the tongue and mounted a hitch for pulling with small tractor. The same was true for the cultivator. We usually planted/cultivated about 30 A of corn for corn silage - about 30 head of cows/heifers to feed. Harvest was done with a corn binder which tied several stalks with twine, called shocks. In like manner, the corn binder was formerly a horse-drawn machine, modified so we could pull it with a tractor. We went through the field with a wagon, throwing the bundles (shocks) on the wagon. The wagon was pulled to the barn/silo. The corn bundles were pulled off and chopped with CASE stationary chopper, powered by a belt off a tractor (CASE LA). Yes, ... lot of manual labor to get a corn crop into the silo!

  • @eschloz

    @eschloz

    2 жыл бұрын

    sounds just like my Dad planted corn. I was born in 1938...i remember watching him with a planter checking rows. He used his horses to plant corn with a planter designed for a tractor until the early 1950"s.

  • @paultighe3735
    @paultighe3735 Жыл бұрын

    Nice video love the equipment, but I think that you need a mic 🎤, can barely hear you just saying.

  • @user-sw4dm1qj2x
    @user-sw4dm1qj2x11 ай бұрын

    My dad was born in 1932 and he told me back in his days as a young man he walked and sit behind a many of farting ass mules and horses lol

  • @frankwurth5375
    @frankwurth53753 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video, I have the same planter. I've never used the wire but have it, I wasn't aware about the stake used to guide the wire or the guide on the front hitch pole, also I only have on e stake. Does any one still supply check wire?

  • @lovetofly32
    @lovetofly324 жыл бұрын

    Wow 20 acres a day is alot for a 2 row planter Id think! Thats so amazing though. Id love to see a field planted that way.

  • @dakotaprairiebreads

    @dakotaprairiebreads

    4 жыл бұрын

    thanks for your note! When this kind of fieldwork was common, teams were often switched at least once during the day. They were also used to working every day and hardy enough for this kind of work. Have to admire the farmers who raised crops this way - it was a lot of work!

  • @closeratio1971
    @closeratio19713 жыл бұрын

    Where was that cover picture in the video?