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Hand Corn Planter:
Hand corn planters were, of course, developed prior to the larger models. Even after the advent of the corn planter during the late 1800s, the hand planters were often used for garden and used to "plug" corn where it was missing in the row. Farmers would walk the field as the corn was emerging, looking for issuing plants of their new crop. Pushing and squeezing the levels together dropped three or four kernels of seed into the ground. The kernels dropped from the planting box through a planting tube into the ground opened by the blades. As the farmer walked away, they packed the soil with their heel. |