The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-08-03
In Homes and on Farms.


7 The fields have been producing prof
| table crops and in the meantime grow
ing richer convenient outhouses hav
been built, fences erected, gates swuni
on their hinges, shade trees planted
ana one OF the largest and best orchard
IN AL this section brought well-nigh L
full bearing, and to high state of per
lection. All this, remember, in the
short time of four years. ! pulled lus.
clous peaches from healthy, well de.
veloped trees which have seen but four
summers. My attention was called to
TWO plum trees, well named "Abund-
ance,' which this season yielded
enormously. Shaking, pulling, giving
away and daily selling combined did
not save the limbs from breaking I'M
der the load of fruit. used to reckon
the "Green Gage" as the prince of
plums, but the abundance is greatly
its superior. Peaches, from that or
chard, came in early and will continue
to come until the Frost King asserts
its sway and drives them and kindred
fruits and flowers to winter quarters.
Apples, pears, plums, apricots, nee
tarlnes, grapes and cherries make a
happy and cougenial family in this
fruit-home, and who can estimate
the loss to that home, the people who
occupy it permanently, the friends
who are welcomed to it, the local mar
ket, if those trees had not been planted
and cared for?
But Mr.. Garden doesn't exhaust his
energies on his orchard, but has on
hand and well IN hand all other crops
known to this section except oats. He
prefers hay to oats, and is very success.
full with it. My attention was called |
to a lot Of three acres from which this
season he cut large crop of clio, er,
plowed under the second crop, sowed
it in peas from which he will get all
other profitable hay yield. He tells me
that the pea vine is invaluable as hay,
and should be cut while the pods are
about half developed, and that it re-
quires a little more sunshine than
clover or timothy to cure well. This
question Of forage ought to be one of
absorbing interest to our farmers, and
The man who contributes 20 the solu.
ton of the problem will be enrolled on
The list Of public benefactors.
Mr.. Garden employs but little extra
abOr, but has about HIM all the mod
ern cOnveniences and labOr-saying ma
;hinery. And then, too, he is reader
If agricultural publications and doesn't
hesitate to adopt practical suggestions
If brother-farmers. Such farming is
lot only remunerative but entertaining
md OF daily interest.
Mr.. James Young, who has been
the old Crawley farm, near
Prospect, successfully and prolitably,
las sold out his farming outfit, and
will 90 into other business. 1t is to be
egretted that such farmer should
tep out of ranks, but he sold to Mr..
as Venable, who will make his mai
len effort in the new field Of labor the
Oming season, and for whom | pre-
Iict good degree of success. When
'Ir. Young says good bye to those
mules, they are beauties) however,
here will be some tears shed. They
AVE been constant and congenial COM {
,anions, and the parting must of neces-
ity, be sad
Mr.. Warren Fuqua says his tobacco
his year is the poorest he ever raised,
ut lie said that last year and then sold
he best crop he ever raised.
The late tobacco promises to be the
est tobacco this season, but if it should
e so, the fact will encourage no good
armer to be late with his work. |
till believe in the early-bird theory, }
hough do not believe in rising at q
Il the morning and working until 8
t night. J
Mr.. Swan has been working our roads q
dmirably well, but the time has come
When scraping dirt into the middle of q
he road is out Of order. Spend the
est of the season in draining and
permanently and well bot
ON places which are to be found on
II roads, and which are "terrors" in
ad weather.
Your correspondent feels peculiar in
crest in Wilmington, where for num-
er of years be INDUCED the luxury of
arming on a large and URproftdbte
Gale. He comforted himself by ac-
using the land and allowing the man
D 20 free, but now that Mr.. Arthur
IcDanald has charge of the same land
nd is making a success Of it, | have
0 confess that the man did it and not
he land.
have no where found better upland
Orn or more promising tobacco. The
Wheat crop, much of it on corn land,
lade good returns and the whole place
being well set in grass. About the
ome and about the farm there is ev-