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Kenzie, in the Fanners' Review (April 21, 1886), 

 states that he believes listing is of doubtful 

 utility excepting in very sandy land where the 

 rainfall is deficient. On ordinary prairie land 

 he prefers the standard method. Another 

 wi'iter in this same journal expresses no faith 

 in listing where there is abundant moisture 

 and heavy soil. Prof. Georgeson of Kansas 

 says:* 



"Deep planting by the use of the lister is undoubtedly the 

 best means to tide over a drouth. Here in Kansas, where 

 the rainfall is somewhat uncertain, the majority of the farm- 

 ers list their corn, and in a dry season listed corn frequently 

 yields a fair crop when surface-planted corn is a failure. The 

 roots of listed corn are not so near the surface and they there- 

 fore do not feel the drouth so severely. For this same rea- 

 son listed corn can be cultivated deeper with Impunity. But 

 the lister cannot be used to advantage everywhere, espe- 

 cially where the rainfall is usually sufHcient to supply the 

 needs of the crop. In such regions listed corn would be 

 liable to be drowned out unless the soil was well drained: 

 Again, on stiff clays listing cannot be practiced with the 

 same advantage as it can on the black prairie mold." 



Mr. J. M. Boomer of Kansas says in the 

 Breeder's Gazette (Feb. 13, 1895,) that he has 

 been listing corn for fifteen years, and nine- 

 tenths of the corn in his neighborhood is listed. 

 He plants with a single-horse drill, dropping 

 the kernels 15 inches apart. He prefers a sin- 

 gle drill to a double one, because if the rows 

 are not just the right distance apart the two- 



*'Indiana Farmer, June 30, 1894. 

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