The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-01-30
GENERAL MCCAUSLAND AS A FAR.
MER

! -UEA E4Al ACGAOSLAND As n FAX
MER.
a correspondent ofthe Richmond
Times writing from Point Pleasant
". Va, gives the following interest
ing information about General Nc,
Causland, whose name during the
war times was SO familiar to the
people Of this section:
General John McCausland, ofCon-
federate fame, is we'll known to the
readers of the Times asa fighter, but
they may not know him as farmer
and as snch 1 propose to make some
mention of him.
Thetieuerals homo place is about
fifteen miles up the Kanawha river
from this place and in the county OF
Mason, the richest in farming lands
of any county in the State.
Here he has a magnificent stone
structure or family residence, with
all modern oonveniences aud lnxur-
les, while his barns are models, and
of course the fences and gates are in
good keeping. In addition to the
home place, the Generalowns six
other farms, aud while he has CON-
petent managers in charge, he gives
personal direction and supervision
to all He tells me that sometimes
he takes in the situation on one OF
these farms from the car window OF
fast moving tIaiB,- 2nd can tell at
glance whether the troops are o.
gagged as he would have them.
imagine he is one of the few farm
ers in the country who, in the
management of the business brings
to his assistance the telephone,
telegraph lines and railroad trains.
He uses all three.
The lands of which he is owner
are rich, but while differing widely
from that financial policy which
makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer, he does believe in making
his rich lands richer, and to en-
courage his neighbors in making
poor land richer, too.
He is an enthusiastic believer in
the tile system, spends large sums
of money in that direction, and is
satisfied that he makes no better
investment.
He was once a large grower of
fat cattle, bat has too much good
sense to cling to any particular
branch of the land d-owner's business
if it ceases to be profitable, and of
recent years has been paying most
attention to hay, potatoes Qrish, OF
course,1 and tobacco. He had
forty acres in potatoes on one farm
last year. and sold 1000 bushels
from the venture, and but for the
excessive drought, would have
realised $4,000 bushels. They
were sold for sixty cents a bushel,
on the place.
He is preparing TO plant 200 acres
next season. AS stated before, he
cultivates tobacco, and successfully,
too-the dark, shipping tobacco on
bottom lands, and fancy light varie-
ty on the hill sides.
The farmers of Southside Virgin
ia will envy his mode of handling it
after it is cured and of selling it af-
ter it is ready for market. He simp
ly removes the leaves from the
stalks, and puts them in one pile,
without the trouble and expense OF
asserting and tieing into bundles,
and the city buyers come to bis
barns and buy the mass as it is, and
then remove it for further handling
to the city factories.
This saves to the farmer much la
Dor and money. For his last crop
of tobacco he received 81 cents
round at his barns. 1t is folly to
say to such a man that farming
doesn't pay. What an example, too,
has this good, wartime leader and
fighter given to the leaders since the
warl He has never been an aspir-
ant for Office; never cared to shine
in inaugural procession nor on re.
union or memorial occasions, and
has holy horror of footlight motor
iety.
he stopped fighting when the
war ended, and went to farming.
One of the surest signs of the