94 INDIAN CORN OULTURE. 
Listing.—The listing process is pecularly a 
Western one, practiced on the big corn fields 
of lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and the other great 
corn-growing States west of the Mississippi. In 
1886 the Farmers’ Review published* a number 
of articles on listing, one of which, by Nelson 
Cowles of Dakota City, Neb., is so clear in ex- 
plaining the process that it is inserted here in 
the main: | 
“The listing plow consists of a double share and mold 
board, or a right and left-hand plow, so joined together as to 
Fig. 30.—LISTING PLOW. 
turn the soil both ways from a common center. Attached to 
the plow is a smal! subsoiler which loosens the soil in the 
bottom of the furrow. There are two classes of the different 
makes of listers, the single and the combined. When the 
single lister is used a common Hoosier drill follows the plow 
in the furrow and plants the corn. In the combined imple- 
ment a drill is attached directly to the plow, thereby saving 
the labor of an extra man and horse, and if the implement is 
properly constructed works equally as well. 
“There are methods of listing corn known as ‘single’ and 
‘double’ listing. In the single method work is not com- 
* Farmers’ Review, April 21, 1886. 
