FARM PRACTICE IN THE CULTIVATION OF CORN. 
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pends on the size of the lister, the depth of listing, and the kind 
of soil. 
PLANTING, REPLANTING, AND HAND CULTIVATION. 
Whether corn is planted in drills or checks depends principally on 
the topography of the land and the extent to which the crop is 
IF,*'* f*,. 
Fig. 19. — Planting corn in Scotland County, N. C, without the use of a planter. The 
row is laid off with a 1-horse plow, the corn dropped by hand, and the covering done 
with a plow, with a hoe, or with the foot. 
grown. If the land is level and corn is extensively grown it is usu- 
ally planted in checks, as in the Central Western States. Where the 
land is rolling or where corn is 
a minor crop, as in the Southern 
States, it is usually planted in 
drills. Where corn is planted 
in checks more cultivation is 
given than where it is planted 
in drills. (Table IX.) 
The thickness of planting de- 
pends on the fertility of the soil. 
On the most productive soils corn 
is planted thickest. 
The hand labor consists largely 
in chopping out weeds and re- 
planting missing hills. This is usually done at the first or second 
cultivation. In the regions where crops requiring considerable hand 
labor predominate, as in the cotton-growing States, more hand labor 
is employed for the corn crop. 
Fig. 20. — A 2-horse checkrow corn planter, 
for dropping and covering two rows at 
once, used on level land where the crop 
is extensively grown. 
