Re: 246/247 jd corn planter questions

Posted by flying belgian on March 07, 2007 at 19:30:56 from (207.13.162.207):

In Reply to: 246/247 jd corn planter questions posted by mike3320 on March 07, 2007 at 15:49:56:

Hill dropping and check planting are two differant things. Hill dropping is based on the principal that nature knows best. When nature plants corn it plants a whole ear at a time causing several plants to grow from one spot.Farmers thought it is best to replicate nature for biggest yield so they hilldropped corn 3 or 4 kernals at a time. research has since showed it is better to space individual kernals for highest yeild. Check planting was done so that you set up a gridwork pattern of 4 kernals on 42 inch space and 42 inch wide row inableing you to cultivate both lenthways and crossways to get grass and weeds from both directions. You needed 42 inches for a horse to fit. I remember my Dad hilldropping corn up untill about 1965. He did it for "increased yield" and also because some believed it would stand better as one stalk in hill would support the other whereas individual stalks would be more apt to break off in high winds.

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