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Sorry, we couldn't find anything matching "Pictured are two corn planters. The one on the left is homemade and is from around 1850. The one on the right was made in a factory and has a patent date of 1854. This type of corn planter was operated by hand. When pressed into the soil, four to seven kernels would drop out. When these planters were used, corn was planted in hills rather than in rows. The hills were spaced about five feet apart so that the farmer could plow around them and keep the weeds from chocking out the corn. Farmers planted more than one seed because they knew that not all the seeds would sprout. An old corn-planting rhyme is "One for the blackbird, and one for the crow, one for the cutworm, and two left to grow".".