Listing

Proce of raising corn, much in vogue in the drier and warmer regions of the corn-growing belt. It is generally used where corn follows corn without an intervening crop, and consists in simply imply throwing out a deep furrow with a double moldboard plow and pla planting the seed in drills in the bottom of the furrow. After cultivation, it gradually works the ridges down about the young plants in the end, leaving the ground nearly level and the roots of the corn much deeper in the ground than in the ordinary method. The advantages claimed for listing are le labor in preparation and cultivation of the soil, and greater drought-resisting power in the plant.