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Definition of Checkrow
1. Verb. Plant in checkrows.
Definition of Checkrow
1. to plant in rows which divide the land into squares [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkrow
Literary usage of Checkrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1900)
"I always notice where farmers planted corn with a checkrow on the top of the
ground in hills, they always put their double shovel plow deep in the ground in ..."
2. The Book of Corn: A Complete Treatise Upon the Culture, Marketing and Uses edited by Herbert Myrick (1904)
"In planting, both the checkrow and drill systems are followed, ... The checkrow
system allows of cultivation both ways, and is almost invariably followed ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1902)
"... one man with his riding plow and harrow, his improved corn planter with checkrow
attachment and two-horse riding cultivator, can plant and cultivate ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"For large fields, the checkrow type of planter may be used. These planters drop
and cover the seed in hills at uniform distances apart, planting two rows at ..."
5. Elements of Agriculture by George Frederick Warren (1920)
"yields as much or more than that planted with a checkrow planter. The chief
advantage seems to be in the reduction of labor. The land does not need to be ..."
6. Southern Field Crops (exclusive of Forage Plants) by John Frederick Duggar (1911)
"In using a checkrow corn planter, two rows are planted at once at uniform distances.
This is done either by means of a wire attached to the planter and ..."
7. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1889)
"That had no covering- wheels, had but one part or frame, and was not a checkrow
planter. Kirkman's machine also had but a single 83 Wall. 819. ..."
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