Listed Corn

What a lister is, what is meant by listed corn, and finally the qnestion "to list or not tolist" is tiros considered by a writer in Farm, Field and Fireside: A lister is a plow of which the point is in the center, the same as a shovel plow or a cultivator shovel, and the share and inoldboard, instead of sloping backward only to one side from the point, slopes both ways. So it is much ike a large shovel plow or a plow with ;wo shares and moldboard, only, of conrse, not so large as where there are )ut single ones. To list ground we commence at one side of the field and go forth and back ust as you would lay off or mark out corn ground with the old single shovel plow, except the ground has not previously been plowed. The planting can then be done in the lists or furrows by single or doublé row planters. But a combined lister and planter is generally used so the plowing of the ground and planting of the erop is all done at one time. But to list or not is the question. I will say that I always practiced plowing and planting until I came to Oklaaoma, and uow I list and plant at the same time. If I were in my old Iowa bome, with its shallow surface soil, heavy clay subsoil, with usnally mueh of cold, wet weatber at corn planting time, we should certainly practice and teach planting corn. Here, with a deep surface soil and with a subsoil differing very little from that of the surface and with warm and dry weather, and especial as Kaflir corn, which is our main feed erop, is uot usually planted until May or a month or more after corn planting and because the lists catch the rainfall better and listing is more quickly done and listed work more easily cultivated, we practice and teach listing for corn and similar crops. It is proper to state that on the five farms with which I am connected we have never planted over 25 acres of corn in one season and this year but half an acre. But within five miles are a number of fine corn farms, and the owners all practice listing but one.