The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-10-19
Apples And Potatoes
On Vermont Hill, Farm
Continued from Page Two)

| lege, is one of those who gives special
help during the picking and pack ng
season. This girl can read a modern
Greek newspaper as easily as she can
read one printed in English.
Last summer Mara Nakoich lit
tie Serbian girl, who had been brought
to America by Doctor Rosalle Morton
to be educated, was member Of the
Dimock family. She is receiving her
education at a girls school but at the
| special request of DR.. Morton, who
wished her to get some idea of Amer-
| can agriculture, Mr.. and Mrs. Dimock
| permitted her to become member o.
their stan during the summer.
When the personnel Of this group Is
considered, 1t Is easy to understand
why one finds the spirit Of comrade-
| hip which is the most delightful fea-
ture Of the whole enterprise. 1t is
also easy to understand the collection
of reading matter in the girls rooms,
where books on potato diseases rub
| elbows with field book Of the stars
and where Dun.a any and Barrie are
found cheek by jowl with scientific
agricultural worls.
| The Dimock orchards apple business
IS well established The proprietors
ave far more orders than they can
fill Most of the crop is sold in carload
lots, much of it going to Long Island.
KS this is the only commercial orchard
n that part Of the state, there is such
great local demand for apples that II
has been necessary to put up signs
| that apples are not sold at the orchards
on Sunday. Before that was done,
they were overrun with Sunday auto
parties wanting 20 buy apples. One
sunday not long before my visit fifty.
four people ate Sunday dinner on the
place. ..t4-.
Many people have asked Mr.. Dimock
how he expects to dispose OF the crop
when all of til present orchards are
producing and, the four thousand new
trees they expect to add. have also
come into bearing. They have no fear
on this score for they feel assured
from past experience that there will
| " 6OOb HO iOli9 40 iHtil ~ "
duct maintains its present standard OF
quality both IN itseif and the package
Ten hive OF bees are part of the
apple-orchard business. The bees DC
the vital work of pollen,zing during
| blossom time. In winter, the. Dimocks
eat honey!
In order not to carry all their apples
''in one basket" the Dimocks yenturcd
some three years ago into the certi
fled potato field. Their potato acre
age increased in 1920 from Is to sc
acres. They have five fields, only one
of which is on the home place. In
this speciality they are doing some
thing that very few growers are doing
for they make five complete inspec
ticns themselves In addition to those
made by official state inspectors;
Elizabeth Clark has charge Of this
inspection work. Two people ,worsi TO-
getker, one on each side Of the row In
this way, each plant is inspected from
both sides so that there Is little chance
of leaf roll, moaic apiiids or any 9th,
er enemy, Escaping detection. Each IN
spectlon means two hundred ANA forty
miles of walking and the certlfication
tag which Is attached to every pack
age of seed potatoes from fields which
have succe ssfuly passed all tests s.
sures the purchaser that the potatoes
he is securing are from q high yield
ing strain Of establishcd-progeny per
Torrance grown in fields showing pre-
vious growth. heavy yields, entire free
dom from weak and dwarfed hills and
a minimum Of disease"
Last summer. after the official in
spect on was over, Miss Clark was
sent 10. visit producers who have an
established reputation for the produc-
ton Of certified seed potatoes, to see
what ned and constructive IDEAS she
could bring back with her.
Underneath and behind all the nc.
tivty at Dimock orchards is an ideal
/ which Mr.. and Mrs. Dimock are striv-
ing to realize and with which they
have imbued all their helpers. They feel
and their young women assistants feel
with them, that one Of the most i'm.
portant contributions worker can
make to the life of the world is 10 help
TO feed the people of the world.
They are also proud to show what
Vermont can do in the way of food
production and they have shown as
genuine pioneer spirit in helping TO
rebuild this. one Of the older parts OF
the country as did those who subdued
| the virgin mains and forests