. Practical corn culture, written especially for the corn belt farmers. Corn. 32 PRACTICAL CORN CULTURE to drill than to check. This is especially true of timber- land that is covered with stumps. Drilled corn is not so liable to blow down in heavy sum- mer winds. We believe, however, that this advantage is fully offset by the freer circulation of air through fields planted in hills. A free circulation of air around the corn. (Courtesy John Deere Plow Co.) MODEEN CHECK EOWEE PLANTER Planting in Hills plants in August has a tendency to prevent firing. We sometimes drill sod fields if the ground
. Practical corn culture, written especially for the corn belt farmers. Corn. 32 PRACTICAL CORN CULTURE to drill than to check. This is especially true of timber- land that is covered with stumps. Drilled corn is not so liable to blow down in heavy sum- mer winds. We believe, however, that this advantage is fully offset by the freer circulation of air through fields planted in hills. A free circulation of air around the corn. (Courtesy John Deere Plow Co.) MODEEN CHECK EOWEE PLANTER Planting in Hills plants in August has a tendency to prevent firing. We sometimes drill sod fields if the ground is free from weeds. Three styles of modern planters are used in planting corn in hills: the round hole, or hill drop, the cumulative edge drop, and the kernel spaced edge drop. All of these are operated with a wire to check off the kernels in the hills. Bound Hole or Hill Drop: This is the least complicated and the easiest to keep in repair of the check-rower planters. The round holes in the plates are large enough to admit all. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ainsworth, William Thomas, 1858-; Ainsworth, Ralph Mitchell, 1885- joint author. Mason City, Ill. , W. T. Ainsworth & sons
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