Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-12-28

are paid for, it ranges from to per
, cent. [ saw poor fellow, tenant
farmer, unloading corn from his wagon
into the Car at Is cents per bushel.
told him about Virginia. her mild climate,
comfortable houses. good orchards. and
corn at As cents, and his eyes glistened.
But he ia fast, for he rented for four
years, clears the land builds his house, and
gets three-fourths the first, two-thirds the
second and one-half the last two years.
But to hasten on, reached Deshler late
in the evening. There L met the Mayor
,, OF the town, the editor of the paper and a
real estate man combined ia one person,
much interested in Virginia, also Mr.. E.
n. Warden, a lawyer. Wednesday morn
ing took up my traps for Mansfield.
where the Aultman u Taylor threshers are
a real estate man who is so much i'm
pressed with the coming boom for. Vir-
GINA, that he is seriously talking of giving
up his business in Mansfield and coming
to Virginia to engage in the real estate
business here. Here met the only far
mer talked with. who claimed to make
over per cent. on his farm, he said he
made over six.
Mr.. A. A Stuart is also from this place
and seemed to take great interest in the
immigration movement and promised to
use the ammunition [ left with him to
good effect. Every sort of question was
speered at me, and here very Intelligent
farmer found in attendance on court got
me into discussion on the bee question,
and informed me that southern honey did
not rank IN the market as high as western
and northern. l told him [ had seen as
fine in Virginia as the world could furnish
and that, I supposed far southern
honey, was more likely to be made from
poisonous and strongly scented flowers,
and Virginia being ranked as Southern
State feels the effect.
HoMEWARD BOUND.
On Thursday morning | ran over to
Lima on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Wabash road, from which point Dir.
John Weaver, farmer, started for
Harrisonburg with a party. Here Mr..
J. E. Putnam aud Mr.. J. M. Osburne
seemed to take a lively interest in
my matters and expect to do good
work. From this point [ came back to
Cincinnati on the C., 81. & ID. and made
the connection for home at Covington
with the Kentucky Central. had sup
posed that the scenery on the New River
would not be very pretty in the winter
season, but I was agreeably disappointed
as the naked trees enabled me to get
better view Of the grandeur of the rocks
than I ever had before, festooned as they
were by the icicles hung from them wher-
ever spring burst from the mountain
side.
IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS TO THE FARM
ERs OF VIRGINIA.
Upon the whole I feel that this trip has
not been without results, and that at
least it has enabled me to see some of the
points upon which 1 should be better post
ed, and in order to get the information |
need I would respectfully ask all the
farmers in the State who expect to attend
the Farmers Assembly to be held in
Richmond, in January next. to post them
selves fully in regard to al the facts con-
corning their particular counties and Sec
lions, such as soils, minerals, products,
timber. labor. price Of lands. accessibility
to market. health, quantity Of grains,
grasses, and vegetables grown to the acre,
the percent made by Intelligent, industri-
GUS farmers On the cash value of their
lands Counting their living as part of
their income). kind and quality of fruits
and the prices obtained, and any other
point that would occur to them to ask
about country to which they were
thinking Of going to settle.
"When 90 you expect to make your
next trip, Judge?"
Well, IN about two or three weeks,
expect.