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inches deep. We plant corn both ways and use the cultivator mostly. 

 We generally plow four or five times and cultivate fairly deep. 



Mr. Scott: This is the first time I have attended one of these 

 meetings. Of course, I am simply in the primer class. I am here 

 to learn. I can tell you a little about how we do in our county. We list 

 with two row listers and use five or six horses ; and we cultivate the 

 same way. The opinion of our farmers is divided in the matter of list- 

 ing. Some think they can do better by listing, while others do not. 

 After listing, we follow with the planter. That makes it so your rows 

 are same width apart, and you can use a two-row cultivator to culti- 

 vate it. We cultivate first with the disk-harrow and use four horses. 

 We throw the dirt out, away from the corn. This makes a broad place 

 where the sunshine can get in to the corn, and it kills the weeds. We 

 have a small attachment to the disk that stirs up the ground and makes 

 it loose, and we turn right around with that same tool and turn the rows 

 back in. In some parts of Missouri, where the land is not rolling and 

 hilly, you do not need the lister so much, but in our neighborhood we all 

 use it. 



Mr. Sly : Mr. Scott and myself are from the same county. Now 

 we list our corn. Some of you don't know what a lister is. It is simply 

 a plow that throws the dirt both ways. In Mr. Scott's part of the 

 county they use a two-row lister, while we use single-row tools. We 

 use the lister in our part of the county almost altogether. We list the 

 ground for planting about four inches deep, throwing up the dirt and 

 making a ridge about eight inches high ; we plant the corn in that furrow 

 about two inches deep, which you see will be under the level surface 

 about six inches. We disk twice with the double-disk. We plant our 

 rows about three and a half feet apart. Of course, if you cultivate it 

 more, it is still better. I use a two-horse cultivator; 1 do that before 

 anything else, and then list it. A good many don't do anything, but 

 I do it to stir the ground up thoroughly ; and then it is the cheapest 

 way to raise corn. About the same plan of cultivation is used through- 

 out our county, only some use two-row listers and some single-row 

 listers. We use the cultivator first before anything else and follow with 

 the harrow. Then cultivate it twice afterwards. This plan gets your 

 corn down to a depth where there is no danger of it blowing down. By 

 the time you have your corn laid by, we have ours down in the ground 

 eight or more inches deep. Of course, that would not be practicable in 

 some parts of the State. 



Mr. Weeks: I live south of the Missouri river. We follow about 

 the same plan the others have mentioned. We trv to do a good deal 



