174 CORN 



ods, listing vs. check-rowed, the figures show 75 cents in favor of the 



former. 



LISTED. 



Listing $ .35 



Twice harrowing 20 



Once with "Go-Devil" 15 



Three cultivations 75 



Cutting weeds 10 



Total $1.55 



CHECK-ROWING. 



Plowing and harrowing $1.10 



Check-rowing 25 



Harrowing once 10 



Three cultivations 75 



Cutting weeds 10 



Total $2.30 



Preparing the Ground. As listing is not done until the time 

 comes for the corn to be in the ground, the land usually lies idle until 

 the first of May. Therefore, some kind of surface treatment must be 

 given the soil. Discing early in the spring loosens the surface layer 

 and tends to conserve the moisture. If weeds come on rapidly and 

 grow rank another vigorous discing may be applied. Furthermore, 

 the disc levels the last year's corn rows and splits the stubs so they 

 are less bother in cultivating. Where listing is to follow small grain, 

 discing the stubble in the fall conserves the moisture and prevents 

 the weeds from seeding. 



The partial failures of listed corn may often be ' traced to the 

 wasteful loss of moisture in the early part of the season, because of 

 allowing the surface soil to bake and grow up to grass. 



The Use of the Lister. The lister is simply a double mold-board 

 plow. By arrangement of the whifHetree the distance between the 

 rows is the same as in checked corn, although in the southwest the 

 rows are often but 40 inches apart. The weed seeds and foul 

 earth are thrown onto the ridges away from the rows of sprouting 

 corn. Hence, the corn has a chance to start in a clean furrow. Many 

 farmers recognize this when they find the corn more difficult to keep 

 clean in a year when their lister failed to scour. 



The listers which were first invented had an incomplete turn of 

 the mold-board which left an edge of the surface of the ground 

 sticking out instead of forming a rounded ridge, of fresh earth which 

 was less pregnant with weed seeds. Even with the best listers, ground 



