38 PRACTICAL CORN CULTURE 
LIsTING 
The process of ‘‘Listing’’ is peculiarly Western, practiced 
on the big cornfields of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, and other 
corn-growing states west of the Mississippi. In the western 
part of the Corn Belt, where there is generally a deficiency 
in rainfall, listing is undoubtedly the best method of plant- 
ing corn. 
From what listing we have seen we must say that we 
prefer the check rower planter with furrow openers attached 
for the more humid parts of the Corn Belt, since we believe 
the seed bed can be better prepared than is possible with 
listing. 
In the April Ist issue (1918) of the Twentieth Century 
Farmer, there appeared an article by M. A. Coverdell, 
entitled ‘‘Listing, Best Method of Planting Corn.’’ This 
article is so clear in explaining the process and after culture 
that it is inserted here in its entirety: 
‘“«By listing the land once, letting it stand a week or two, then split- 
ting the ridges and listing again, practically the same porosity of soil will 
have been established as with stirring and planting by planter, while 
the crop of weeds that springs up between the two operations will 
be easier to keep free of these pests through the whole season. 
‘*Lister ridges will dry off and permit of cultivation much quicker 
than will the flat surface of land planted to corn with a planter. At the 
same time, the drilled corn in listing, being deposited at a greater depth 
from the surface than that planted with a planter, it will have a greater 
supply of available moisture at hand, and thus will resist a drouth better 
than the shallower planted corn. 
‘‘Listed corn is much easier to tend than even check-row corn. A 
good harrowing should be given just as soon after drilling as possible— 
before the plants are through the ground if convenient. This enables 
us to do the job quicker than after the corn is up and has to be 
watched to prevent covering, and destroys all weed growth, leaving the 
corn a fair chance to grow, with no weeds to smother it back or sap the 
moisture from the soil. 
‘*We follow the harrow with a land roller, which crowds con- 
siderable fine dirt into the furrow, crushes the clods and leaves tha 
soil in fine condition for future cultivation. While we have secured 
