94 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 



Listing.— The listing process is peculiarly a 

 Western one, practiced on the big corn fields 

 of Iowa, 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 small subsoiler which loosens the soil in the 

 bottom of the furrow. There are two classes of the different 

 makes of listers, the singly 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. 



