That's just the way it was here, 42 inch rows, etc. My dad and uncle used to plant with horses and John Deere 999 planter and always did a pretty good job.....They took a lot of pride in their work. I cultivated and "cross cultivated" check rowed corn a couple of times with my uncle's 1941 Farmall H equipped with the model 221 2 row cultivators. It was pretty easy except in side hills, there you had to really "watch your knitin'" and go slow even if the corn was a foot tall or more because that steerable type cultivator could side shift a little and it was very easy to overcorrect on the steering wheel which yanked the cultivator over too much too fast and you could yank out a couple hills real quick........I remember having to stop and reset some I cultivated out. I don't remember us picking any, didn't have a picker then, had a husker-shredder instead, but it was pretty neat cutting it by hand like we did to open up the field before we brought in the tractor and corn binder to cut the whole field. You had to yank hard on the corn knife to cut 3 or 4 stalks at once but about 3 cuts got you an arm load. We usually shocked the hand cut corn in the field corners as we cut it., but let the rest lay in 12-15 stalk bunches and shocked it when we shocked the rest after cutting it with a binder. Shocking corn after it was cut with the binder was kinda hard work because you had to pick up the bundles of 12-15 stalks off the ground and stand them upright in the "corn horse" thing we used to build the shock around. Silo filling wasn't quite so bad, we had a bundle elevator thing on the binder that brought up the bundles to a level of about 8 feet to be hand loaded on flat rack wagons which were then hauled to the ensilage cutter at the silo. Still work all right but at least you didn't have to pick up the stuff off the ground. After we gave up check row planting because it was just too much trouble getting off and on the tractor at every turn around to reset the stake we went to hill dropping the seed in 3 seed hills....The idea being you could throw a little more dirt in the corn row with the cultivator for better weed control because 3 plants could stand up better against the force of the dirt than just 1 plant could. Of course you couldn't cross cultivate hill dropped corn because the hills weren't located by check wire. Only did the hill drop thing for a couple years.
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