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Sr. " " ' ' .1 n i. ., , ., . -y Established 1877. RALEIGH, N. C, DECEMBER 12, 1911. J : Vol. 37, No. 10 V ' J. Farmers' Experience Meeting , . v . The Deatons A Family That Does Good Farming and Ilai;es Com That Takes Prizes. (Southern Pines Tourist.) Tlie Deatons, father and sons, are a family of farmers that need not to apologize for the results of their la bors. Long before the demonstra tion work in this county took defi nite shape they were doing; progres sive farming. They read agricul tural papers and keep in touch with the latest methods in farming and with the latest events that are trans piring in the State and country. Mr. Noah Deaton, the father, is a man around 80 years of age and has worked hard all his days. He has kept his mind -from going to seed, and this has brought him to his advanced age with a young heart, and an active and well-stored mind. When the writer was first introduced to him at a Farmers' Union meeting, at which his corn had been used as an illustration, he named se-ven or eight papers he was already taking and reading. As the list grew the Tourist man thought the farmer sure ly would not care to add another pa ner to the bunch, especially, as that paper made no pretensions to be an agricultural paper, or even a general county paper, at that time. How-, ever, Mr. Deaton peeled off a dollar bill from a good-sized roll and re marked: "Your paper is a good, bright paper and I'll take it." He has taken it ever since and says a good word for it whenever he gets a chance. Mr. Deaton had been building, up his strain of corn for nearly a dozen years. His sons have given the mat ter much attention and toclay they have a variety of corn that nods saucily in the summer's sun at the best that grows. The other day one of the sons, Mr. John Deaton, was seen by the writer in Southern Pines with an ear of corn sticking out of each pocket and a box which, on closer inspection, proved to be marked for Atlanta, Ga. A little questioning elicited seme inter esting facts. This Deaton corn took the first prize at the OUoore County Fair and the third prize at the State Fair at Raleigh, and the proud young farmer was shipping a box of it to the Southern Corn Show at Atlanta. To the writer's remark that the Deaton's were hot after the prizes, Mr. John remarked that they were going after 'em hotter still next year. That's the spirit that wins. Mr. Noah Deaton and his son, Mr. Charles Deaton, raised 77 bushels of corn each on a measured acre, while Mr. John Deaton made 82 1-2 bushels on his measured acre. Altogether the Deatons made 400 bushels of corn on 13 acres. Mr. John Deaton's 82 1-2 places him among the leading corn raisers in the county. Fine Corn Crop MR. MYERS RAISES CORN. Remarkable Record of Second Contestant in Corn Contest What His Acre Produced (Lexington Dispatch.) Mr. James A. Myers, of Tyro town ship, Lexington Route No. 3, was a visitor at The Dispatch office last week and the conversation naturally turned to the recent corn contest, in which Mr. Myers won second prize writh a yield on one acre of 107 bush els, 30 pounds. Mr. Myers was re quested to tell the history of his acre and this is the interesting story that he related. His corn cost him about 8 1-2 cents a bushel, if you do not count the by products raised on the same acre; if you do count them, it cost him about IS cents less than nothing at all. He broke the land with a two-horse plow November 26, 1910, and disc harrow ed it several times. It was meadow land, and had been in grass the year before ordinary meadow grass. On April '28, 1911, he planted , Fritts' Prolific corn in hills 9 inches, and rows 4 feet apart. He cultivated it three times, on May 20th, June 5th and June 26th. Sixty-pounds of acid, more to destroy worms than anything else, was the only fertilizer of any de scription that went on the land. Here is; an itemized : account of his ex penses u Breaking land . Harrowing Fertilizer Seed corn Planting First cultivation Second cultivation . . 2.00 Third cultivation 1.25 $2.00 1.75 .60 .50 .50 .50 "--" . "fe rr...V-rAft - r- -- -- t- 1 v Total $9.10 To offset this Mr. Myers got enough beans off the acre to keep two families supplied; he took 4 two horse loads of pumpkins, 400 bundles of fodder, and 400 bundles of tops. The tops he values at 1 cent a bundle and the fodder at 1 1-4 cents; the pumpkins, he estimates conservative ly at $2.00 a two-horse load. This :VlR."jAMES Af 3rYEKS, The Confederate Veteran who raised 107 bushels of corn on one acre with 60 cents worth of fertilizer. foots up a total of $17.00, giving him a net profit of $7.90 on his investment cf $9.10, nearly 90 per cent, with his 107 bushels of corn thrown in abso lutely free. And yet we have heard apparently sane, sensible men say that farming doesn't pay! Mr. Myers is 66 years old. He served in the Confederate army in Company B, 3 7th North Carolina, and if this should meet the eyes of any of his old comrades, he wishes that they would write to him. If any of them are farmers like Mr. Myers we wish that they would write to us. We want to see if we cannot i mince them to come to Davidson county. Why w.v;rs Need Ware- (Carolina Fnion Farmer. Fanners need warehouses as places of distribution more than for storaso houses. The warehouse system is in tended for a business channel to ell through, as market houses for farm ers where purchaser can seek th seller, and pay a price fixed ly tho seller commensurate with cost of pro duction and relative value. When the Farmers' Fnion begins to educate in business methods of marketing in a newly organized section many of its, members get the idea that ware houses Will be of no value exc-pt to the member who stores his cotton or other products in them. This is an erroneous idea of the real purpose of a co-operative warehouse system. Products may or may not be stored in the warehouses fr a season, but it is expected that all products of members, who want to reform the suicidal and ruinous practice of ped dling products, by individuals upon the streets, taking whatever the local market offers, be sold through the co-operative warehouse when there i. a satisfactory demand for it. It is a selling system that is proposed, and the idea of storage and using th? products us collateral for a loan is merely incidental. Remember that it is the system of competitive individ ual street selling on local markets1, without regard for demand, that wo want to break up, and farmers as a class will never have an equal chane with other folks until they break it up. Banker Raises Big Hogs Good Cotton in Moore North Wilkesboro Hustler.) "Mr. John Wilmoth, of Kapps Hill section, has recently gathered from one acre of his land 99 uusneis oi ; corn," savs The Mount Airy News, and that "it may be interesting to: know how Mr. Wilmoth made such a large yield. He tells us the land is ordinary creek bottom and that it was in wheat followed by peas last, year. Before planting in corn last spring he ploughed the land and drill ed 400 pounds of 'fertilizer broadcast. Then he planted the corn so that it stood 13 inches apart in the row and the rows were 3 feet wide. At the time of planting he put under the corn 200 pounds of fertilizer and five loads of stable manure. After the corn was up he plowed it seven times but the hoe was not used. He had figured up all the cost and says this corn has cost him less per bushel than that raised on land that made ordinary vield." (Kapps Mills is near the Wilkes line in Surry, which ac counts for this.) (Southern Pines Tourist.-) Mr. D. J. Campbell lives just out of Aberdeen, on the Raeford road. He is a live and progressive farmer and finds it entirely, possible to raise good' crops by the application of hard work and the right kind and amount of fertilizer. In the fall of 1910, Mr. Campbell broke an acre on which he intended to plant cotton, to the depth of 12 inches. In the spring of 1911 he plowed to the depth of 9 inches. He put the cotton in rows 3 1-2 feet apart and used 1,200 - pounds of 7 5 5 fertilizer. Late in April he planted his seed, but as he did not get a good stand he planted again on May 10. The sandstorm of May 2 9, that did considerable damage to cotton all over this section, hurt his growing crop somewhat. Late in July he put to his cotton 100 pounds of nitrate of soda to brighten it up and give it a good color. He has not completed the pick ing, but so far he has gathered 2. 525 pounds and has 200 or 300 pounds yet to be picked. This means two "plump bales on this one acre of sand. Mr, Campbell remarks that from the time the cotton was planted un til August 1, after which a cotton crop cannot be greatly improved, onlv one rain that wet the soil enough to do anv good fell. The land has been cultivated for 50 years and Mr. Campbell does nut know how much-longer. Now Independent (Gaston Progress.) Not many years ago a native of Ohio came to North Carolina for the purpose of finding health and to en gage in toek raising. His neighbors believed that he would find health but considered him a fool for settling on an old broken down farm, and predicted that he would soon go out of business. He went ahead, how ever, and today he is one of the lead ing citizens of that section. He has made money and is now independent. He recently refuced to accept a posi tion which would pay him $2,000 a year, because he could make more money on that old farm which he purchased a few years .ago. Jle is still ..raising stock and is preaching the same doctrine to others with the result that many have also gone into this business. (Apex Journal.) Mr. J. R. Cunningham, besides be ing the popular and efficient cashier of the Merchants and Farmers Hank, is some hog raiser. This week h killed two fourteen-months-old hogs, which netted him 878 pounds of pork. One weighed 432 pounds and the other 44G. Mr. Cunningham bought the two pigs from Mr. George Fp church just a little over one y.-ar ago. A Big Increase (Apex Journal.) Mr. F. W. Holt, who lives near Apex, tells us that this year h" pro duced f.S bushels of coin per a'-r on a piece of land where he got les.j than live bushels per acre six year ago. This is farming along the riht line. A Goodlv Land (run i rn. Big Hogs in Person f Iloxboro Courier.") Several of our citizens have been slaughtering some big hogs. On Mon ay Mr. Joe H. Carver killed one which weighed 363 pounds, Mr. K. G. long killed two weighing respectively 367 and 400 pounds, and Mr. Joe G. Moore two which weighed 237 and 2G0. .Mr. Carver says this was not all he killed, but you will notice it was the on:y one he had weighed, consequently it is an easy guess as to the weight of the remainder of those 14 which hv .-did he was fattening. ( Willia mston Hntorprise. .) Martin ffnintv has abundant thic; vear in forest, field and strea; Even bears aic dining out in the op n and rabbits frisk about the puMic highways. Surely the hnrvvt is gr-at in this goodly land. Big Bulb Business (Pose Hill Hr.terprise. ) The bull growers ar busy getting the bulbs to market. The fame for mile out from the towns are -n-gaged in tliis prontitble bu?inss. Magnolia i the greatest bulb growing town of the whole -ountry. Some Corn in Person s ( Iloxboro Ciu: iei Mr. A. It. Foushee reports that hn has gathered his "pet" pat h of corn, containing two acres, which produced 30 barrels, lf-0 bu:hrls, or 75 bushels per acre, and produced on poor land at that. Mr. Foushee says he ex pects to double the yield n-xt yfvar. i 4 i I Y j si i s . 1 : ! . 7? r - T ! H 'i t 1 : i I'll- f i i i i 1 f i LIT. 1 u 1
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