(Agriculture) a row of plants, esp corn, in which the spaces between adjacent plants are equal to those between adjacent rows to facilitate cultivation
Although it was equipped with a check-row seat (the small round seats were designed to hold a young boy who'd activate the seed drop at the appropriate point in the checkrow operation), the piece was likely shipped as a drill-type planter, Steve says.
The event at the farm, 1N600 County Farm Road in West Chicago, will feature 1890s technology and agricultural advances, including demonstrations of a mechanical cream separator, checkrow planting wire and a dog-powered mill.
It was the first to gear the dropping mechanism to the planter wheel so one kernel at a time could be dropped into the valve, allowing corn to be checkrow or drill planted.
This year's fair will feature 1890s technology and agricultural advances, including demonstrations of a mechanical cream separator, checkrow planting wire and a dog-powered mill.
Sherrill Wolfe, Depauw, Ind., believes he has the answer to Item B in the April 2011 installment of What Is It: "This piece is part of a checkrow corn planter," he says.
In checkrow corn, the center four hills of an eight-row square area were not cut, but their tops were tied or twisted together to form a gallows, or support, for the shock.