[AT] Check planting

Beal Gleason farmerbeal at aol.com
Sun Dec 30 14:27:19 PST 2007


The planters were made so that during that 40" off travel it would  
put the 2,3,or 4 seeds in a pocket right down in the ground and when  
it hit the button on the wire it would open and drop the seed. If you  
drove too fast, it would go 3 or 4" before the weed would fall and  
then when you came back it would drop the seed 3 or 4" the other  
direction and you would have an uneven row.

It used to be H--l cultivating 2nd and 3rd time (with a tractor,it  
didn't make that much difference when we were cutl. with horses)  
because you were  going across the ridges you had made with the 1st  
time over. The corn was up far enough that you could move on and the  
front end was bounceing like a basketball. You were ready for night  
to come. What was even worse was if you failed to get over the third  
time and then it came harvest time. You would be going length way the  
rows & the ridges were cross ways.

Farmerbeal


On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:15 AM, charlie hill wrote:

> Thanks Farmerbeal,  that gives me a better image of what it looked  
> like.
> You didn't just have one stalk of corn in that "check".  That makes  
> sense.
>
> Charlie
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> From: "Beal Gleason" <farmerbeal at aol.com>
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting
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>
>> We planted in 40" rows with hills spaced 40" in the row and 3 seeds
>> per hill. That gave a plant pop. of 11,880 per A. We got yields of 60
>> to 70 bu. average. If we had a good field we planted 4 seeds per hill
>> and if we had a poor field we dropped to  2 seeds per hill. Are yield
>> went according.
>>
>> Farmerbeal
>>
>>
>> On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:00 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Jack,   I guess I need to see a picture of it or something.
>>> The way I have it figured if you check plant in 30 inch rows then  
>>> the
>>> spacing in the row between plants would also have to be 30".  That
>>> would
>>> give you a plant population of only about 6970 plants per acre.
>>> All corn
>>> that I know of is either single or double cross, meaning it has
>>> either one
>>> or two ears per stalk.  (Seems like I've heard something about
>>> triple cross
>>> corn but I've never seen any.)
>>> I just don't understand how you could have a reasonable yield that
>>> way.
>>>
>>> Don't misunderstand.  I'm not saying it was a bad way to do it.
>>> I'm just
>>> trying to understand the process.  Did you maybe plant more than
>>> one stalk
>>> per "check" if I can call it that?  Maybe per "hill" would be a
>>> better way
>>> to say it.  I can see where the extra room would maybe make the
>>> stalks grow
>>> better but that doesn't always translate into bigger, fuller
>>> ears.   Also
>>> allowing the extra sunlight into the crop canopy (because of the  
>>> wide
>>> spacing) would seem to me to cause a problem with late season weeds.
>>>
>>> This same topic was discussed here a few years ago.  I didn't
>>> understand the
>>> concept then and just decided to explore it a bit more this time.
>>> I'm not
>>> trying to turn it  into an arguement.  Just want to get a clear  
>>> mental
>>> picture of what the field looked like.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jack Hollon" <jvhollon at greenhills.net>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-
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>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:12 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting
>>>
>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>> I'm sure you will get a lot of different answers but the long and
>>>> short of
>>>> it is cultivating. You can go north and south one time then  45
>>>> it. That
>>>> will get all the weeds.
>>>> Jack in north west Mo.
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