CHAPTER XXXV 

 CORN PLANTERS 



Essentials of a Corn Planter. The modern corn planter 

 is a highly-developed implement and well able to meet 

 the exacting demands made upon it. A good planter will 

 fill the following conditions: 



First, a corn planter is expected to place in every hill a 

 certain number of kernels of corn. 



Second, the corn must be placed at a uniform depth, 

 regardless of the condition of the soil or trash that may inter- 

 fere. 



Third, the check-rower must place the corn accurately 

 in rows for cross cultivation. 



Fourth, the planter must be convenient to operate. 



Fifth, the planter must be capable of adjustment to the 

 planting of cane, beans, and several of the other crops grown 

 on the general farm. 



No doubt accuracy is the first requisite of the modern 

 planter. In selecting a planter, therefore, the dropping 

 mechanism should be given first consideration. 



The Dropping Mechanism. There are two distinct 

 types of dropping mechanism upon the market, the full-hill 

 drop and the accumulative drop. In the full-hill drop a seed 

 cell is provided large enough to contain the desired number 

 of kernels for one hill (as three, for instance). These three 

 kernels are all counted out at one time, and if they should 

 be slightly undersized it would be easy for a fourth to slip 

 in as the seed plate containing the seed cell passed under the 

 seedbox. 



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