CULTURE OF MAIZE 



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* At the present time nearly or quite three-fourths of Kansas com Is raised by 

 me method known as listing ; which, I may say in explanation, consists of drilling 

 the seed in the bottoms of deep furrows struck at the usual intervals in ground not 

 otherwise plowed. 



'* I'- is claimed that listed com endures dry weather much better than the surface 

 planted ; that it gives increased yield and this especially that the labor of growing 

 a crop of com is reduced one-fourth to one-third by the new method." 



Kansas Station has reported six, Oklahoma Station two tests 

 of listed maize as compared to that surface planted, as follows : 



Five out of the eight trials of listed maize gave the best 

 results and on the average of the eight trials the yield was six 



per cent greater than when surface 

 planted. 



At the Illinois Station^ maize 

 listed on fall plowed land gave a 



Combined sulky lister and planter; 

 makes furrow in unplowed ground, 

 drops and covers seed at the same 

 time. In some cases disks are used 

 In place of shovels to cover the seed. 



I III BuL 37, p. 24. 



Cultivator for listed maize; also nrjde with dirfWj 

 in place of knives. Forms are made which cdf 

 vat* two rows at one time. 



