The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-12-01
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10 PHir Of successful Farmers.
c EdHor Herold.-About four year
ago MessIs S A. Boudurant and C. I
Anderson bought $40 acres Of the farm
once owned and cultivated by the lat
Edmund Edmuuds, for which the,
paid $500 the dwelling and out
houses Were included la the purchase
II was nay privilege and pleasure a.
boy To- visit this delightful aud mos
comfortable Southside Virginia home
and some of the happy hours of my
young life were spent there. On last
Saturday at "high noonn / drew the
reins over "Beauregardn aud halted al
the famil.ar spot Time has been deal
ing gently with the old mansion and
the surroundings The noble trees are
still standing guard, the flowers are
blooming, tne evergreens know no
fading. the old yard fence has given
/ place to q new and the o.d-time greet
ing, and generous hospitality are just
a. Astounding as when Mr.. aud Mrs
kdmuuds ruled and reigned there.
This farm was always reckoped one of
our very best in this section, but
never saw it ia better dress than now.
saw no bare spot in the fields, no
guilies cutting their way through them,
no brIars where they ought not to
grow, 300 diapdated fence or gate,
no pig roofing in the wheat, 40 poor
horse or mule, 10 farm implements
exposed 10 the weather, no want of
wood az the wood pile and no lack of
cheer ON the hearlhstone. These two
young men do all the work Of the farm
except ON occasions when extra help is
needed, and ihe ladies the work of the
house with the following results:
Wheat crop this year, 300 bushels; corn
enough TO keep everything fat aud
sleek. aud tobacco which your CORE
spondent says viii bring IN open mark
ct more than $1,000 ! have already
stated this farm cost $500, and this
years results all told will amount to
twO-thlIds of that sum. And yet some
people sill say farming don't pay.
Poor farming, Of course not, nor do
poor business ventures Of any sort pay.
| reached this home twenty minutes
before dinner, but when l went to the !
table ID looked a. though Company !
had been expected. People who work |
hard are entitled to the best the land |
affords, aud surely these earnest work
ers are receiving it. Feeding on such |
ham, on such chicken, on such butter, |
ON such milk, on such cake, on such |
peaches n forgot my favorie, "turnip |
tops") there is no wonder that they are
strong to work. As "A boy | was inn
pressed with the fact that the floors OF
this home were the cleanesi and slick
est IN the iand They are so still, and
the "back lolsn are as large, and the
iAlf" t4iN is" UANer AAA 40 VI .ftttf NhAA.
plays 80 par, in this fight, and it is
being successfully demonstrated that
the white people of the South are as
independent a- those Of any other sec
ton of the Union.
Just South Of this farm are those Of
Me-sr-. John and Macon Gillian, and
TO the Southwest that Of MIR. II. A.
Stokes. These are successful farmers,
too, and a- soon as / eau find room in
the HERALD viii ask the privilege Of
describing their operations. If the
world knew just how successfully
farming can be carried on in Soulhside :
there would not be long an
Idle acre TO be found. The local paper
can do no more desirable work than
give out Just such information. Better
than politics, wars, murders, lynchings
and such like.