The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-07
DANNILLE.

A TOUR THROUGH PORTIONS OF PlTISYLNANlA:
WHAT GOOD FARMER SAYS; FOREHANDED
MEN-REYENUE RECEIPTS FOR THE MONTH
AND THE YEAR.
correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.I
July ), 1880.
In recent tour through the northwestern
portions OF this county observed that not
large crops of tobacco had been planted, but
i'm some OF the fields the plants were grow.
ing of finely; that the fields OF corn were
clean Of grass. and the crops were, Is Il gen
eral thing, looking unusually vigorous and
the crops OF oats then being harvested
were quite Indifferent. I'm reference 20 the
oat crop. good farmer says that people
need not expect Il good yield until they
attend-frst, to the quality Of the seed
and, second, give the seed fair show
ing TO put the seed into land which
was the year before cultivated in corn,
and was hardly able TO produce il,
j., SAYS he, next to throwing the seed and
the labor away and, he adds, to turn cattle
in upon this land after the reaperS have
passed over il, that is the next Thing 10
throwing the land away. I'm reference to
the remark which has sometimes been made
that oats is an exhaustive crop, this farmer
saws that il a field be sOwn in oats year after
year for several years and left ungrazed II
will be found that the yield OF oats will be
better year after year, and the land Will be
mucn more fertile aS To other crops after
wards. Corn followed by oats, and oats by
/ cattle, says he, will Kill any OF our lands
| bat the river bottoms.
| In this tour it was not an unusual thing
| 10 ind planters who had bought lands upon
which the previous owners had not been
able to make a living, and who had tv ju-
| dlcious farming aud planting been able 10
live comfortably, improve their lands and
premises. and put away something in bank
for their children and Il rainy day. These
are called forehsnded men. Here's one
man whom | could name that has lived I'm
thi. way, and has recently put up barn
and stable after the Pennsylvania style,
which cost him 81 100 cash. Here's another
mau who came out OF the army in 1868
| with not much else but strong body and a
disposition TO do something. This man has
a face that shows that he Is at peace with all
the world and himself, and things about the
house and yard look pleasant he is one OF
the forehanded. Here's another: This man
sold some OF his tobacco in Danville for $50
per hundred this season, and SAYS he is 90.
ing TO stop work when he can give each
one OF his children one hundred acres OF
the land that lies near Turkey Cock noun
tain. and have tract for himself aud BIT,
wife; and be Is progressing IN that direction
rapidly. And here's another, who has Just
about done what the last-named was pro-
posing to do, and cannot consent to stop
Just yet"
Captain Marks, Of the internal-revenut
Office, gives me the figures for June: To-
bacco and cigars, $50, 1890; assessments,
SO 1888; special taxes, 1906 20; spirits
s3i4 70-total. SSJ,174l9. Figures foI
June, 1879: Tobacco AID cigars, S97 1858 80
assessments, 5000 SO: special taxes,
s6ll26; spirits, S22j-tota. Sl00, AL
Figures for the fiscal year ending June
Both Tobacco and cigars, 1850, 3GC.5l; as.
sessments, s9,247i5; special taxes, So.
965.05; spirits, sl7,373 G0-total, sl,002,.
952 "a. Figures for The year ending June