Planting eight rows at a time. Sixteen people dropping plants, four people following to catch missed drops, one on the tractor and probably twenty-five people in total.
This is not the way we did it when I was growing up on the farm and we planted tobacco in these same fields. Mother and daddy would pull the plants in the morning. They would get me out of school that afternoon so that I could drive the tractor while they dropped the plants.
Our planter looked something like this, but the tractor was a Farmall Cub.
We thought we were state-of-the-art farmers. This is the way it was done before farmers had tractors.
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