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The term "checkrow" is derived from the checkerboard-like appearance of a corn field when viewed from above, with each corn hill planted exactly at the intersection of imaginary lines that cross at right angles the same distance apart.
Checkrow lines were made with a marking sled in one direction only, and the planter was driven at right angles to these lines.
Thus, those Virginia native-Americans were the actual inventors of "checkrowed" corn.
Seed corn grader and 1871 Haworth checkrow planter reel and rope owned by Harold Jehle of Baldwin City, Kan.
In case there is any doubt about the complete eradication of the weed, corn planted in checkrows (see page 91) to allow cultivation both ways should follow the summer-fallow.
When corn-growing became more mechanized, it was planted in checkrows; that is, there were rows going both north-south and east-west, with enough room between all the rows to drive a horse and cultivator.
For other Road and watch for cranes in the rice checkrows.
In these pages you'll find everything from directions for setting up perfect checkrows to wry recollections of truck-swallowing mud roads, the stories behind early manufacturers to making hay.
In places where the corn was planted in checkrows, support for the shock while being built was provided by tying the tops of the stalks in four adjacent hills together without cutting them off.
Checkrowed corn was the victim of chemical weed control, as well as corn pickers and combines, which work much better when the corn's planted in continuous rows rather than clumps of three or four stalks.
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