The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-08-10
In Buckingham.


} ing all of my life but which nsve
saw until last Friday, and | am gIa'
to have been there. The large hote
and many cottages of other days whicl
in their day gave welcome, and shelter
and rest, and comfort to 500 guests a
once, are no longer there, but a massv,
and typical country mansion embow.
cred in yard of shade trees, evergreen.
and flowers, remains, and nearby that
health-giving sulphur spring, from
which so many tired ones have drunk
and been refreshed, and so many sick
ones have drunk and been made well
again. As | dipped and drank, and
rested, | wondered that any Southside
| Nirginian should want to go to the
Greenbrier White or the Montgomery
White when in easy touch sparkles,
and bubbles, and flows the Bucking-
ham White, just rs pure, more palata-
BILE and just as remedial. And here |
know is a feature not to he found at
either of the other Whites, or any other
summer resort in the land. In we'll
nigh hand-pull Of that spring is a glo-
rious watermelon patch, 50 that the
pleasure seeker and seeker after health
can indeed and IN truth get them
"fresh of of de vine" The habit of
the owner is to 60 to that patch early
"Of mornings" and fill that spring
chock full Of choice melons, 50 that if
by ten a. IN. the gods were in search Of
food fit for them they might find il
right there. The only regret about the
experience | had there and in that hos
pitable home, where Virginia matron
presides and provides as they only can,
Is that like all Of earth it came to an
end.
There are 400 acres Of land attached
to the property, and these are being
worked by Mr.. Wiley Morris, who left
the so-caled business world to return
to the old homestead where | believe
he is happier and will be just as pros
porous. His methods differ somewhat |
from those Of brother farmers, and |
was very much impressed with them.
Ifhe has a hobby it is the peavine,
believing as he does, that the ''cOw
pea is the salvation Of the Southern
farmer"
| had been led to believe that corn
was an eXhauster Of our lands, and all
we had to do was to follow corn with
corn, and the sig was up" but Mr..
Morris is fully persuaded that he can
cultivate the same land Il mean up
and of cOurse) i'm corn year after year
and yet improve it. This is done by
sowing peas and blowing them under
1t the time of laying by the corn. This,
he says, retains the moisture and ae-
ually gives more to the land than the
,orn takes from it, and when the corn
las been cut, shocked and shucked
he peas will be ready for the hogs,
md when the hogs are done with the
peas the vines are ready to be turned
lnder to furnish food for another crop.
Aud so the good work goes on year by
year, and Southside Virginia soil Is
made TO grow better and at the same
ime feed the human family and fatten
he hog family. Can any of your
eaders beat that, Mr.. Editor? If so
ell them to let the world know it.
Mr.. Morris has 80 hogs this year,
low in the wood pasture, but soon to
Ne turned into the orchard, when they
will feed OH peas, the most luXurlant
rop have seen, until the corn has
,een gathered, when they will be CIV
m larger pea range 50 that when
,enning time comes they will require
,ut little corn to make them ready for
he slaughter pens. When the hogs
cave the orchard it will be seeded in
We, and when the spring comes 1t VIII
Ne given to the land, and then the peas
gain and then the hogs BY this pro-
ess the orchard gets two good work.
ngs a year, and am quite sure that
With better worked orchards the fruit
'ied would be more regular and much
more satisfactory. | look for a better
Law in Southside Virginia when peas
IS a feeder and a fertilizer are more
recognized.
The labor problem is being solved 10y
It least two buckingham farmers.
,Ir Cobb Cox, brother Of our towns
nan, Mr.. A. A. Cox, has as his only
a son of 10 summers, and
yet he has $4,000 hills Of tobacco and
me of the best crops Of corn | have
cen, all well worked and growing
randy. There are nine people Ia
amily, too, and everything moves on
and well. Mr.. Geo. Elcan,
neighbor, young man himself, with
he aid of two younger brothers, the
.Ider not Is should judge, is cultiva-
ing 10000 hills this season, with full
.rops of other things, and here there
ire dozen in family and not a negro
IN the place. The Southern young
nan of today is not holding his hands