The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04
YOU CAN Do IT.
Bunch of Corn Stories Briefly
old, to Sllow What IU Lanu
Will Do When Handled Right.
(SOuthern Pines TOurlSt.)

(Southern Pines Tourist.)
Ask any corn Expert in his region,
who has the best corn OF the year, ana
he is quite likely to tell you that DIM
mick's corn is the prize article ano
it certainly is an exceedingly tine plec9
of corn-one which many eople nave
taken the pains of a trip from town
to see.
The land on which this particular
piece of corn was planted measures &
little less than two acres. Not a par
ticle of fertilizer was used. but the
land has been built up by the use u
vetches and cloVers, fertIllz-
ed from time to time, until 1t has a
fine clover sod, the %sort.of land the
corn grower likes to get hold OF.
About the middle of May MT. DIM
mick broke up this piece Of ground,
blowing eleven inches deep. He disk
ed it twice, cross narrowed it and
planked it, so that when he marked
it OFF the field vas as level as a
floor.
The Dimmick field of corn is a>thing
of beauty. The experts With whoni
the writer was in company when he
visited it said, There is no better corn
to be found anywhere. 1t IS pecfec-
ton so far as it goes, but there might
have been twice as much OF 1t, N
which verdict Mr.. Dimmicks JOINS
acknowledging that had he planted
Ill ISSo g
he might have raised one hundred
bushels to the acre as easily as the
sixty or so which is the estimate now
and the profits or the patch Woul1
have been nearly doubled, perhaps
fully.
There is one stalk with eeVen more
or less fully developed ears, but severa'
Of them would have to be placed un-
der the head of less developed. 1t Is
easy to find stalks, however, that haNt
four or five Well developed ears and
two or three are common. The stalks
are about right iii size n shape; the
ears are Well placed and stand of
from the stalk with hat peculiar drooI
which is so dear to the scientific
corn grower ana the ears are regular
we'll shaped and nicely filled out. Mr.
Buchan sized it up about right when
he said, 1T is all right corn. II
couldn't have been better, but there
might have been more of it and is
pity there isn't" The secrets of Mr.
Dimmick's success are good soil, in
telligent methods, and plenty of hare
work
Mr.. r. s. Marks is a book farmer
and at the same time he is q hard
headed Woodworking, hard-thinking
farmer-in short, he is an old-tinl(
farmer, with up-tO-date ideas grated
on, and the combination makes one OF
the most successful farmers in this
entire section. Mr.. Marks has an am
bition to make just as good corn
and as much of it-as any OF hi
n~eighbors. but he has no use for The
man who gets a big lot of corn and .
small amoHnt of money when 1t j!
all Over-ln other words, he raise:
corn for the cash and not for a record
The Marks farm is about two mile;
east of Southern Pines. The owne,
is handicapped by the fact that he live
in town and spends "a good bit Of tim
In travelling between his home and h
farm, but he starts early and Wort.
late and makes q heap more out O
his acres than would many a man i
he spent tWenty-four hours a day Of
the spot.
Mir. Marks has eighteen acres 0
cotton. which will yield a bale to tn
acre, and perhaps do a little better
He has about fourteen acres in corr
and it is among the best in this region
The ground has never had any bar
manure but has been cropped to COW
peas, corn and cotton, having bee
cultivated for five or six years, an
intelligently rotated and painStakinsl
built up. MIR. Marks always tries t
put a little more into his soil tina
he k out of it. The result is, &
course, that his land is gettin
stronger and richie every year, Will
at the same time he is getting goo
non crops from it. The one thin
this land needs-and it is true Of ever
farm In this county-is cattle. N
living on the place he cannot kee
stock, but most farmers might, an
must, Ooner or later, if the mos
profitable kind Of farming is to b
done.
Mr.. Marks is not one Of Mr.. No
Leans pupils, but his methods are Yer
nearly the same as those Of the farr
demonstration people, for he reads tn
farm papers, the bulletins and any
thing else that promises to give biz
new light on farming. Neither is +