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Re: What is a lister?
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Posted by jal-SD on October 24, 2002 at 06:40:33 from (64.68.166.199):
In Reply to: What is a lister? posted by Willy on October 24, 2002 at 03:38:19:
In our part of the world, listers were commonly used to plant corn. Molboards (or discs, depending what you liked) put up the ridges, small discs & packer wheels in the rear covered up the seed, which was planted at the bottom of the ditch. (Put the roots closer to the subsoil moisture.) Didn't have to plow before you planted-lister did it for you. We used to disc the stubble in the fall after harvest to kill the weeds & leave the trash on top so wind wouldn't blow the soil away during the winter. Then in the spring, wait until weed seeds sprouted & go bury them with the lister. Corn & weeds would sprout, go over the ridges with an eli, which was a pull type cultivator especially designed to cultivate listed corn-some areas called them go-devils. Then wait until the weeds started again & take a drag (spring tooth worked best) over the ridges to knock 'em down. Wait until weeds started again-by this time the corn was 8-10" high, so you go just as fast as possible with a regular cultivator to finish filling up the ditch & knocking down the ridges. Weeds all gone, corn tall enough to "shade" the ground & you've only made four passes to get it all done. No spraying needed. Added advantage-no corn roots to plug the combine next year when you combined the small grain that was rotated into that field. For those of you who have never combined w/canvases to lift the grain into the cylinder, this was a real problem-several roots would get picked up & bounce along on the canvases for a while & then decide to all go in at once, just as a heavy part of the windrow went into the cylinder-resulting in an immediate plug. Sorry for the long post, but if you want to know what a lister is & why they were used in our area, you're gonna have to read it to understand. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)
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