[AT] Checked rows - Corn planting?

[James Yost]

Dean,

If you tried to cultivate diagonally you would need to
set your spacing to about 28" on your cultivators if I
am thinking correctly.


Jim

--- Dean VP <deanvp at att.net> wrote:

> As a youngster on the farm I have a lot of memories
> of the issues related to
> planting corn in checked 40" or 42" rows so that the
> rows could be
> cultivated both ways. But I have no recollection of
> ever cultivating at a
> diagonal. Was this ever done in any part of the
> country?  I would think it
> would have required completely different settings on
> the rear wheels of the
> tractor and cultivator. And not be all that
> beneficial anyway. 
> 
> Just curious if it was ever done and for what
> reason. Senility is setting
> in!
> 
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost
> the key to the
> storeroom door 
> 
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Jim and Janna Yost
Utica, Ohio
USA
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