[AT] Checked rows - Corn planting?

[charlie hill]

Hi Ironman,

I've forgotten (or maybe didn't know) where you are from.  I'm always 
interested in the history of tobacco cultivation.

Charlie
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> Tobacco was set that way  around here before the mechanical transplanters 
> were affordable. The old timers would pull a corn planter both ways with 
> mules, just before a rain. Then one drop plants on each X and another 
> follow with a peg that way water on the newly set tobacco was taken care 
> of. Reason being the fertlizer was in the right place as it was put in 
> with the planter. I belive in order to plant corn to cult on diagonal it 
> would require a similar plan ? And not very many people going to do that 
> now days. I  have pegged in a small bottom wher it was easier to do it by 
> hand then turn around every 40` about 1/2 acre . As it was a good place to 
> grow big tobacco, but it was never  set to cult just one way to keep down 
> erosion. And now my back wouldnt hold out.
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> From: "Cecil Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
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>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> We cultivated across the rows but it was not the same. You had
>> to be on your toes all the time looking for hills that were just enough
>> out of line to make it thru the shields on the cultivators. I never
>> heard of anyone who cultivated on the diagonal although you could see
>> the diagonal paths as you went along. It was bad enough doing the cross
>> cultivating without getting into diagonals.  grins.
>>
>> Cecil
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