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.) 
MODERN CHECK ROWER PLANTER 
PLANTING IN His 
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. 
Round 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 
