Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-02
THE NORTHERN NECK.
Farming Operations backward
Many Persons Vaccinated.

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| CONFORM. KING GEORGE COUNTY,
| VA. April l.-(Special)- long con-
tined cold and we. weather has had n
discorraging effect upon the farmers and
truckers of this section. There was less
farm work done during March than Is
generally done In January, and conse-
| quently April finds the fields unploughed
ana but little work OF any kind fairly
begun. The trucking interests will suffer
/ TO greater extent than will the ordinary
| field crops, for IL is now too late IN the
| season 10 prepare the soil and plant truck
for IL TO mature in time for market pur-
poses, but not so I'm regard TO the corn
crop. 1t is true that the corn-flelds are
generally ploughed and ready for plant
ing by the first. or early part. OF April
and now little or no ploughing has been
done for corn, but the farmers seem TO
have forgotten that among the best yields
of corn made here was that of 1865. when
the fields were not ploughed until some
time in May, and that one or two seasons
IN comparatively recent years the fields
were so washed and broken by May
HOODS as TO necessitate u reploughing
Oh many or them, so that q large per-
centage OF the corn was not planted until
the last week in May and the first ten
days in June. Good crops were made in
each Of those years. Two years ago a
great deal of the corn which was planted
In April and early May was so destroyed
by the cut" and "bud-worm" as to re-
quire reploughing and replanting OF
many whole fields as late as the Sth OF
June. and yet the corn yield OF that
year was almost phenomenaly good
Early ploughing and early planting are
very desirable, and are justly advocated
by all wideawake, enterprising farmers
but IL Is a matter of actual experience
here that when both have been provi-
dentially hlndered and the weather condi-
tions necessitated late planting. good
yields have followed and prosperity has
been no less than when the ordinary con-
ditions obtained.
1t was reported here this week that
smallpox had made its appearance in
fredericksburg-that a young gentleman
In the national bank there had been
stricken with the disease-and our people
became so much alarmed that vaccina-
ton was the absorbing topic and chief
ambition for some days. While some
waited for confirmation, or contradc-
tion, OF the rumor, many sought a doc
tor and the only known prentiVe.
and it Is probable that a larger number
of King Georgians have been vaccnated
since last Tuesday than in any one week
since the civil war; or. at least, since the
smallpox scare of 1882.
Mr. Mark Kicker. who Is arranging 10
move his large saw-mll plant from King
George to some point on the James river,
below Richmond, is loading a fleet Of
barges on the Potomac with sawed rail-
road ties, to be shipped TO Philadelphia.
Messrs. James M. Henderson and Mar
shall Grymes. the sureties OF the late
c. G.. McClelland, postmaster at Osso. |
this county, have designated Willis B. |
henderson as acting postmaster, to have |
charge of the pOst-office until successor |
to the deceased postmaster is duly ap- /
pointed and commissioned by the de-
Dartment, at Washington. Ex-Sheriff |
William j. Rogers is the most formidable
for the Osso pOstmastership,
and II is most likely that he will re-
,eiye the appointment. as he stands ex-
,eedingly well with the administration
wing of the Republican party.
The Fredericksburg correspondent OF
he Washington Post recently reported
Dr. NJ w. Minor, OF this place, as one
II the candidates for the Treasurer
hice Of King George. and the Doctor Is
" no means pleased, since he Is, he de-
lares. not now. and has not been, a
andidate for that or any other cfflce
The mistake probably grew out of the
act that Mr.. j. Il. Minor, Jr., Is one
I the candidates.
Miss Mamie $. Rogers, OF this neghbor-
ood Is spending some time in Washing
on. ID. G.
Miss Lizzie Taylor, OF Mount View, this
ounty, is visiting relatives IN King VIII
nm.
Miss Katie b. Arnold. daughter or DR..
T. Arnold. near here. left some days
go for Richmond county, where she viii
E the guest OF kinsfolk for some time.
Mr. Bowie Grigsby left yesterday for
n extended visit to Washington, ID. c.,
nd Richmond Va.
Mrs. r. p Tayloe, OF Chatterton. this
,unty. who has been quite i'll for two
eeks, Is reported as somewhat improved.
The Baptists have decided TO purchase
ghteen or twenty acres of land TO en-
rye the already capacous grounds OF | .
Grove" camp-meeting in the
wer part OF the Northern Neck. Ii Is
id that the committee have engaged
ev. DIR. Hale, OF Roanoke, TO conduct the : !,
mp meeting the coming summer.