The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-04-19

den your flowers, the spring from which
you drink your spring and all Of the
crops yours, and / believe you will be
the happier man and the more useful
citizen. | have more than once in
these communications urged farming
on a small scale and / have nothing TO
take back on that line, but when it can
be done on large one and successfully
done do very much enjoy the sight
a few day ago stood IN the field
with Mr.. C. l.. Baltimore and watched
with wide awake interest, four two
horse plows cutting the sod as a reaper
cuts the ripening grain and the scene
was Inspiring. When men can afford
the outlay and where they can think
on large scale il pays to farm on
arge scale. only regret that
more Of our farmers cannot afford the
luxury, for it is luxury.
Things are humming on all Of our
farms just now but no where more so
than on that Of Mr. Ed. Bondurant.
The farmer who hasn't time to wait for
breakfast or to 60 to breakfast is Of
course busy. Stopping right in the
middle Of the row, and with a bag Of
bone for rest were new 10 me as a
breakfast resting place, but / have
rarely seen better mornings meal or
better mornings appetite. Not many
moments were consumed at the table |
and then 70 earnest work again. After |
all it isn't luck but labor that wins.
The wheat on this place is making a
neck to neck race with that Of Mr..
Horace Richardson, and / am not 50
sure which will win. | saw here, too
a gratifying growth Of clover, and an
abundance of last seasons oats and
corn. Mr. Bondurant is not an enthus-
last on the subject Of labor. saving
machines, but has unbouuded conf
deuce in muscle and willard ] am
not so sure that the combination has
been much improved on. One thing
is certain and that is that the best of
do no thinking, and that
without good thought Oh the farm
is a dismal failure.
This does not mean that we are to
close our eyes to progress, and live in
the past rather than in the present.
Mr.. Bondurant has no regularly en-
ployed hand on his place, and that GER
-ainly means 1901 and not 1890
Mr.. The. Garter cultivates the old
Walker farm near Darlington Heights.
aud when / visited him during the dry
lays Of last summer he was not so sure
If making anything but he brought I
$50 pounds OF tobacco 10 town one day :
at week, and went home rejoicing i'm
uch prices as these, Sl2 TO- 1910, So
ma 81. With good season no telling
low much money he will carry home
With him next time. / would rejoice
With him if he could make million
making tobacco, but the good Lord
nows best and tobacco growers don't
ct rich that way. There may be COM
ensations, however, Of which the
'orld knows nothing. believe there
re.
/ wish some one would tell me whyit
that the bottom lands on Bush river
re cleared, and ditched aud worked
lille those on Buffalo are abandoned?
remember when boy going to the
ard Times farm, then the property Of
le late Glenn &. Reed, of your town.
I'd managed by a Mr.. Carter. when
rn, wheat, oats and tobacco abounded
lille the watermelon patch was the
ggest 81 ever did see.n The land is
Ill there, but ditching has been neg
'ted and grubbing lost art, the re-
1t being that those crops are no
lger grown. The land must be bet
by reason Of rest and offer an invit-
field for an investment backed by
md, muscle and money. 81
It Is mistake to imagine that our
'mers are without a job on rainy
Us. | saw two Of them proftabIy
gagged recently on just such day.
e Of them was cutting stove wood.
1 the other delivering a load Of wood
which he received a Ground dollar.u
at was not a lost day to either of
m. The sold man" who fails to
nish an abundant supply of dry
We wood to the cold woman ought
er to have a good warm meal. and n
farmer who "dispises the dav of iii
al things" will always be just
r behind. OK THE Go