The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-09-08

Of millet, excellent hay as all Wi
70 agree, and without doubt he is raisin
4 more colts and better than / have seel
: elsewhere. Horses are higher and D.,
land owner can afford altogether G,
! neglect this branch of farm work.
8 do not forget that our friend, Captain
General Frank Mckinney, is i'm imme
date command of these farm forces
and | would not take from him a lau.
rel he has so well earned and to which
he is so justly entitled; on the contra
ry would encourage him to remember
that peace hath her victories no less
renowned than war"
1t is good for sore eyes, and soured
tempers, and dyspeplic folks to ride
over the farms Of Messrs. Eugene and
Horace Richardson. This was also my
privilege on last Monday, an ideal
September day a. well as ideal farms.
For the South they are small farms,
only about 300 acres each, but every
inch Of land is on duty. Where the
crop is not growing there is grass, and
that's always a most valuable crop
Itself; where the grass ends forest trees
begin. And there are 10 gullies, no
naked spots, no bridges of doubtful
strength, no uninclosed fields, no gates
that will not open and shut, no bitches
choked up, no machinery without shell
ter when not in use, no poor mules, or
poor cows, or poor hogs. MIR. Horace
Richardson told me his tobacco crop of
this season was the best he has had i'm
ten years. | looked at one field which
impressed me as being unusually fine,
and was surprised to learn that it had
been recently cut over. / don't yet un-
derstand how all those plants grew
together. I walked through the low
ground corn Of Mr.. Eugene Richard.
son, and no old negro on that farm
need fear that he will have any "nub
bins to shuckU
Thirty sleek, black, fat hogs Of Mr.. |
Horace were grazing the clover-not |
industriously, for they didn't impress
me that they were ever hungry, and |
ought not to have been. During the
winter they were well grained and
housed, in June they Were turned ON
the clover, and then i'm the field from
which the wheat had been cut, and
now they have a monster pea patch to
invade. All this to be followed by
corn again, and there is just no telling
what they will weigh. There are
dozen springs Of pure water on the 300
acres of Mr.. Horace alone, so that the
hands at work are never out of touch
of cool water. To one just returned
from section springless and waterless.
this is matter Of vast import. When /
visit such lands as these in Southside
| wonder that there should be
any difficulty in Producing strangers
into our midst. / do not forget that
these land are favorably located with
reference to market, and that they are
blessed with more Of what we call low
grounds than are many others, and yet
he uplands are rich, and presume are
not naturally better than many Others
hat can be bought at very reasonable
prices.
Let the world know these things.
Mr.. Editor, and the HERALD will have
new subscribers and the Southside new
'itizens. One secret Of success on these
arms grows out Of the fact that those
n charge are actually fond of farming.
Instead Of drudgery it is a delight to
hem. And after all is it not better ,
han standing behind counter or at
desk? making or giving a pill?
ampling tobacco or selling whiskey?
freight or di-counting paper?
making macadam roads or writing ed
torals? selling tickets or setting type? ,
some farming does pay, and all mar
iages are not failures.