Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . or, after the plants are too largeto be straddled bj^ the double cultivator. 163. Use of the turn-plow. — In the earlj years ofSouthern agriculture, the turn-plow was an ordinary im-plement of cultivation. As methods of farming have im-proved, farmers have largely discarded the use of theturn-plow as a cultivating implement. There are excep-tional cases when its use is justifiable, for example, (1)where grass is too large to be uprooted by ordinary tillageand where it needs to be thrown away from the plants, andto be killed by smothering with
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . or, after the plants are too largeto be straddled bj^ the double cultivator. 163. Use of the turn-plow. — In the earlj years ofSouthern agriculture, the turn-plow was an ordinary im-plement of cultivation. As methods of farming have im-proved, farmers have largely discarded the use of theturn-plow as a cultivating implement. There are excep-tional cases when its use is justifiable, for example, (1)where grass is too large to be uprooted by ordinary tillageand where it needs to be thrown away from the plants, andto be killed by smothering with earth; (2) when the landis cold and when budworms are injuring the yoimg plants, COliN TILLAGE liO under which conditions the use of the turn-plow to baroff the corn rows, that is. to throw the earth away fromthe row, is justifiable. In such cases, the soil should bereturned to its original position as soon as the grass hasbeen killed. 164. Checking corn. — Checking consists in plantingcorn in such a way that it can be worked or plowed in two. Fig. SS. -Check-row Corx Planter, with Double Desks to openA Deep Furrow. directions. IMost of the corn in the cotton-belt is notchecked, because the land is too rolling to be cultivated inmore than one direction. However, checking is in common 176 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS use on the less rolling lands, especially on the northernedge of the cotton-belt; and its use on level and gentlyrolling land should become more general throughout theSouth. The chief advantage of checking consists in the savingof hand labor or hoeing. In order to practice checking,the land should be nearly level or very gently rolling andweh drained, since checking cannot weU be practiced whereit is necessary to plant on ridges, as is done on poorlydrained land. The yield of checked corn is nearly thesame as that from drilling, provided the number of plantsper acre be the same in each case. Corn can be checked either bj using a check-row planter,(Fig. 88), or by caref
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