Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-12

the little package Of precious weed. Mr..
j. N. Terry, not far from Locust Level,
bought small farm, spent IS per acre
for fertilizer, realized slO0 per acre for
his tobacco, and pail for the whole
place the first year. Another tract Of
sixty-iive acres, near Glover, cost Mr..
W. G.. NJ. $3.50. His first crop Of to-
bacco brought sl30 more than the price
he paid for the place his next crop
over 81, coo, the primings alone bring
ing near sl00. On this little
place there are lots Of clover.
orchard grass, wheat, a fine orchard,
and a handsome residence, good barns
with 6ues, though the barns cost over
els to put them up and the hues
1928 the brick. sun-dried, made by
Mr.. NJ. himself. This is what is called
poor land, but Mr.. NJ. says a hand can
tend twice as much tobacco on poor
land as on rich. The soil is light,
and there is so much less grass to fight,
and the fertilizer will make it do any,
thing. At any rate, this gentleman has
on this sixty-five acres Of poor land
made one Of the completest little homes
in Halifax.
The fine tobacco-land extends on up
into Pittsylvania and is just as yalua-
bic as in Halifax in fact, the highest
..prices'I have heard of such land bring
ing were gotten in that county. The old
Bird Ferrell place, five miles from
Vernon Hill, sold not long since for $40
per acre. 1t is a fancy little tobacco
farm with no unusual improvements.
John Mccormick bought another place
near Vernon recently (the Anderson
farm for $30peracre. The improvements
very inferior. 7. Wilkerson a few
years ago bought a northumberland
tract of land in Pittsylyania for $3.50.
His first crop Of tobacco brought him
900, and he made $50 bushels of corn,
and paid FOR his place. He would not
take $25 per acre for his farm now.
And so | might go on Gd hJitum, but
the subject would weary you; so ! will
tell you about
a POORHOUsE THAT PAYS,
and | doubt if there is another one
in the State that does, but Halifax has
a superintendent of the poor who
knows how to manage and how to make
fine tobacco, and last year he took care
Of large number of the county's poor
wards-fed. clothed, and paid all cx-
penSeS of the pOoI-h0use farm, and
turned over to the supervisors Mt the
end Of the year a surplus Of 5000 he
had saved over and above expenses.
This model superintendent is Mr.. R. r.
Edwards. | wish | could have inter
viewed him pro bono pubiico. He is
appreciated in Halifax, and the county
supervisors have raised his salary from
500 to 500.
IMPROVEMENTS.
Some of the improvements in the
section ! am writing Of are worthy of
mention. Among them is a new Bap-
fist church at County Line, another new
one at Vernon Hill, a new PreSby teran
church at Oak Level. a fluc- factory al
the same place. where | found orders
for outfits for sixty new barns already
in. showing that progress is still the
watchword among the tobacco
growers here. There is also large
new Houring-mill at Meadsyille, Just
finished, and another six miles from
there on Sandy creek, and a complete
saw-mill at each place, all built and own
ed by Mr.. A. r. Pool, most ingenious
and enterprising citizen, who came to
this county from Texas only ten year,
ago with $500 in his pocket. Then
there is a fouriShing country store at
almost every crossroads another fine
-four, griSt-, and saw-mll at Johnson's.
on Sandy creek; long new covered
county bridge there; another $1,000
one going up at POOLS mill, and ten
flourishing country stores, to say no.
thing Of scores Of handsome residences
and other new buildings, all within a
radius Of twelve miles.
If any county in the State can show
as much progress, enterprise, and per-
manent improvement as this section Of
Halifax the writer has not yet found
the place. but would like to see it and
l." write it up" VoX.