Marshville--Mr. T.J. Marsh and sons gathered 1,280 bushels of corn on the ear this year from eight acres of land, which is equivalent to about 90 bushels of shelled corn per acre. they will also average about a bale and a half of cotton per acre. Mr. Marsh says that they make more now on a few acres than they made a few years ago with two or three times as many mules and hands working large fields of thin soil. The three L's have been applied to their farm--limestone, legumes and live-stock. Uncle Tom says he's going to retire from active farm work and turn it over to the boys.
(From the front page of the Monroe Journal, Nov. 12, 1920)
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