PREPARATION AND PLANTING 



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Surface planting is the method in common use on all 

 heavy lands or in regions where rainfall is plentiful, being 

 the common method in all the States east of the Missouri 

 River. The " furrow opener," or disk planter, is also 



Fig. 4.5. — A combined lister and drill. The land is not plowed in prep- 

 aration for listing. 



popular with many farmers, especially when it is desirable 

 to drill, as in the growing of silage or fodder corn. 



The lister came into vogue about twenty-five years ago, 

 but it is used extensively only where the soils are rather 

 light in texture (loam or sandy loam) and in regions of 

 rather low rainfall. In central Nebraska, Kansas, and 

 Oklahoma, one-half or more of the corn is listed. List- 



