Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-08-23
against oHt II Loudoun county. As Tor fruit

against OUT IN L0ud0un county. AS Tor fruit,
Virginia Il q natural apple orchard
"All my life I've planted apple orchards.
planted the first orchard west OF the Mis-
souri,. ought to know something about an
apple tree, although I've had half dozen
battles with agricultural societies over the
tap root question. believe in a tap root
with.my apple trees, while your tree peddlers
who want to cut up an apple root so as to
make from four to six trees out of it, don't
believe in tap root. They can't There's
only one tap root to a tree, and to bolieve in
Its necessity would at once put stop to
grating, and manufacturing with shears and
grating wax six apple trees out OF one natu-
raj root. But that is aside.
"What started out to say was that Virginia
was natural apple orchard. There are men
who make speciality of apple raising in Vir-
gnla now. 1t isn't six weeks since | was
with Mr.. Henry Fairfax. on his farms, and
he told me that he shipped vast consignlnents
of apples to England. Pippins they were
Mr. Fairfax informed me he received 81
barrel for them. lie said, too, that Eng land
would take ten times the shipments she was
getting. They never had enough pippins.
apple farmers in Virginia. and the business
could be carried to heights of success not yet
dreamed of. There's practically no limit.
Markets might be extended, and if anything
can becounted sure in the future it Is that
every apple Virginia can raise, even il she
plants every field and fence corner to or
chard, will find a purchaser at fiattering,
rich figure. The worlds mouth is always
watering for an apple. 1t may tire Of an
orange, and get sick at the sight OF banana,
but you can put an apple in nomination and
carry the world unanimously every time.
"Some Northern men are beginning to find
out these farm possibilities of Virginia. One
Yankee gentleman-and he is a gentleman,
TOBIAS bought big farm right nextto JEFF
fersons old place OF Monticello. What did
the Yankee gentleman pay? Twenty-Five
dol lars an acre, and he got as good a piece OF
land as could have been surveyed in the
garden of Eden. Make money? or course
he will.
"One lucky thing about Virginia. and one
which will brighten her life when Michigan
Minnesota, and Wisconsin sit wringing their
hands, and that is the lumbermen haven
stripped her of her natural forests. 1t makes
tremendous difference in the rains of {
region whether you've robbed it of its trees OF
been honest with it.
SIT is outrage and worse it is threat to
the future the way that forests are felled il
this country. There are today about 450, 600
900 acres of timber in this country, and the
destruction is $4,000 acres daily. Every time
the sun goes down you can figure on $4,000
| fewer acres of woodland than existed wheI
that sun came up. 1t is easy to conjecture
how long it will last.
mo. can only reiterate my advice to
young men: Go to Virginia. Take your
money and buy farm. Yon can do it for
from $40 to $25 an acre; the cheapest and
richest lands on earth, with the world for {
market for all you produce.
| "To people who are writing me letter!
about the matter. can only suggest that the.
hunt up some real estate or railroad man in
whom they can put confidence and take hi
advice. The land is there; they can get it, ant
if they will go into the farm business with
little sober industry they will never regre
going to Virginia.
Speaking of industry man who goes OF
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tory or aboard boat, must work. He can
sit on the front porch and read Coins Finan
cial School.
81 recall one time driving along road an
noting about forty hogs filing merrily thrOug
a hole in the rickety fence which marked
field, and proceeding to lay waste corn.
was right near the house and called to th
woman of the place. l told her the pig
were ripping that cornfield wide open. ani
asked her where her husband was. Sh
wrung her hands helpIessly and said he wa
away to Populist meeting. I ran the hog
out of his corn and stopped up the hole in hi
fence myself, and then drove on. reflected
as did so that the affair certainly had ting
of irony in it. A pronounced gold bug driv
ing the hogs out of silver-bug's corn while
the latter whooped it up at a Populist meet
| ing"