[AT] Check planting

[Francis Robinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ERNST BORCHERT" <eb3 at shelby.net>


> I have been trying to figure out what check planting is and after
> searching it seems to me as it is the same as we used to plant orange 
> trees
> in Orange County, California. The trees were planted 20 feet apart both up
> and down and across. We cultivated them up and down and across. When the
> trees were young you could see a straight row of trees just about any 
> angle
> you looked.
> Merry Christmas from Western North Carolina.
>


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    Yes Ernst, you are exactly right. Except corn wouldn't yield much spaced 
20' apart...   ;-)
    Check planting died very quickly when 2-4-D came along for broadleaf 
weed control.
    I'm too lazy to do the math but I have wondered how many seeds you would 
need per hill to get a seed count up to today's seeds per acre rates which 
are getting up to around 30,000.   :-)

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"farmer"

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path
and leave a trail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net