Check row cultivation

[wore out]

Before Roundup!

.

 

[560Dennis]

Cool add , I think

 

[flying belgian]

Com looks healthy. Wonder what average
yield was back then.

 

[RBnSC]

Couldn't have been much look how far apart the were.
Ron

 

[47fivewindow]

Two seeds per hill. One good ear on each plant.

 

[JamesJTX]

Dont know about the corn , but spent time on a 720 gas
single front wheel cultivating cotton back in the 70s for my
Uncle Max.

 

[john in la]

Horses usually had 42 inch rows with 2 to 4 seeds every 42 inches.
If my math is correct that is 7500 to 15000 plants per acre.

The worse part about check row planting was going to church or the corner store after your corn started coming up and hearing what the neighbors were saying about your field.

 

[flying belgian]

I don't remember Pa check row planting but do remember him hill dropping 4 on 40 with the 4 row 490 planter. Pulled planter with 1942 A JD.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

40 bu/a

 

[Mark Poss]

I still enjoy checking a couple of acres every other year.
And using different tractors to do it. 2 acres is enough.
Wouldnt want to do 100

 

[wheat straw]

What would the modern hybrids yield in check row.
Anybody try it for fin?

Andy

 

[wingnuttx]

Mr Poss. That has to be one of finest farms Ive seen in some time. I mean every tree is trimmed perfectly. Good looking equipment to boot. Thank you for posting. Wingnut-Keith

 

[IaLeo]

If you think check-row corn planting is quaint and showy, you should try it some time on at least a 20 acre field!

Complete with planter wire and stakes and of course at least one time cross-cultivating. Make me grumpy just to remember those "good old days". Leo

 

[flying belgian]

I don't think many if any did 100. Typical 160 acre midwest farm. 10 acre building site with cow yard. 20 pasture. 20 hay, 30 oats, 30 wheat 20 beans and 30 corn.

 

[casecollectorsc]

Dad planted three in a hill...one for the gophers, one for the landlord and one for him.

 

[centash]

Modern hybrids yield best at high population s around 30000 and higher. Can check rows get that high?

Ben

 

[Mark Poss]

Last year I when I picked corn I got 3 125 bushel gravity wagons of ear corn out of the 2 acre field. I dont know what the formula is to convert that to
shelled corn but Im sure somebody does.

 

[Southern Ray]

We never did check row planting down here. Straight rows 38 inches apart with plants about six to eight inches apart.

I can follow cultivating one direction, but it appears to be a lot of bouncing cultivating the other direction. Did they cultivate at a lower speed?

 

[newtattoobob]

I usually plant an acre or two of check row corn. I like using the H with 221 shifting
gang cultivator on it.

 

[DR. EVIL]

Wow, 160 I grew up on had 4 acres for an orchard of around 1-1/2 acres, barnyard big enough to turn semi's around in, two big barns, big corn crib, big 2-story farmhouse and a large yard and garden, machine shed, cattle yard and a hog lot, plus the concrete floored hog lot. The field right south of the buildings was of course 16 acres, with another 20 south of the 16, two 20's beside the 16&20, then two 40's, most years one or both 40's were split into two 20's. Farm now has 3-4 grain bins in what used to be the cattle yard. The chicken house in the orchard is gone, the hog house which was originally an early poor attempt at a farrow game house is gone, and a few other changes have been made. Biggest change was two 600 head capacity confinement hog houses have been built right south of the buildings, New BIG Deep Well to water 1200 head of hogs was drilled. Guy that lives there now feeds feeder pigs to market weight on contract to the meat packing company. A semi or two delivers all his hog feed, a local vet is contracted to visit at least once a week.
Biggest year Dad ever had was 30-35 head of fat cattle and 800 head of hogs from farrow to finish. Was WAY to Darned much work!

 

[gene bender]

4 PLANTS EVERY 40 IN =16,000 and that is as heavy as the planters would plant as 3 plants was common

 

[Geo-TH,In]

I recall my dad saying he got a record of 100 bushels per acre for corn and 25 for beans in the 1950s

 

[Russ from MN]

We planted part of a tree plantation in checked rows, 9 x 7 pattern, they were hybrid poplar/cottonwood.
They needed to be cultivated for the first few years, my wife went one way with a IH 340U, I went the other
way with a JD M. When they got about 22 years old some were 24 inch dia, some only 4. they were harvested
then and went to the paper mill in International Falls MN.

 

[560Dennis]

Cost to produce would be good only laying down fertilizer where it needs it. Yield would be lowered but cost lowered also

 

[ss55]

Hybrid seed and chemical fertilizers pushed corn yields up beginning in the 1930s. Later chemical herbicides eliminated the need for check planting and allowed plant populations to increase. Row spacing deceased after horses disappeared.

 

[RAW in]

Back n the 50s and 60s dad wire checked his and Grandpas corn. Baout 80 acres or so . Cultivated mostly with te C.After I got bih eough to run it, he put the cultivator onthe F-20 and I got to run that. (hand lift.) His fields at home were 120 rods long and about 20 rods wide! A lot of turning when crossing it. Third time through could get interesting as it sometime got plenty tall to go through.We also mowed all the hay with the C, so got good at mounting the cultivator and mounted mower!.

 

[Leroy]

Check row planter parts were dicardes before I knew what a planter was and just turned 79. Fanily did not seem to see a reason foe checking.