The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-06-28

contra I.
Editor Hecoid.-l have been priv
legged Of late 10 travel IN this section O
our State with aud to introduce To oul
people representative citizen Of a
Western State, aud with your permits.
sion, beg TO draw. as far as may be
able with the information at my COM
mand. contrast between the condi-
Tons under which he lives aud those
under which we have our being.
la reply TO an inquiry to him as to
what advantage his section had over
ours, he very promptly said: Ninety
~ per cent. of our farms are prolitably
worked and that can not be said Of
yours" To this was forced to plead
guilty, and TO admit there was an
advantage on his side. Then / asked
that he would select one Of the best of
his farms and give me the results Of
one years operations This he did and
we could not figure out more than
ten per cent return | then selected
one Of ours. and demonstrated fifty
percent return. Which is the greatest.
NIFTY or ten? As fifty is to ten, then
so Is at least one Prince Edward fam |
to one farm Of the leading agricultural |
county Of leading agricultural state |
OF the Great West.
He selected one Of his best, and |
selected one Of our best. He could have
selected Others and | could have gone
on selecting too, and at the end of the
contrast he would have had a longer
list OF farms with profit and | would
have had much larger returns on GER
lain farms-and what is the conclusion
% which We are driven? That in
Prince Edward where there is man
IN the farm the profits are greater than
IRE realized elsewhere on any Of the
arms Of our common country.
My travelling companion, and my
riend, as ! am sure can call him.
AID they used paint more freely in his
ectlon than they do in ours, that they
rove bigger, fatter and stronger horses
nd used more improved machinery.
II reply | said, we have running
'ater, aud bubbling springs, and
Of fire wood, and open win
srs. He had to confess that he had a
one Of these things. 7
Farmers Of Prince Edward, imagine II
treeless, springless. creekless farm, q
nd then thank God again that "your i
YES have fallen unto you in pleasant n
aces, and that yours is a goodly heri- "
ge." Our visiting brother pay $40 Il
onth for farm hand who goes to n
re field at Z a. m, returns to dinner 4.
1870 a. m, and then works ) hours
ter dinner when the days work Is
me 1t may be that fewer hours and -
ticker licks would be well for Us.
Ouse-help In the West is a rare lux
y, cyclones are not uncommon, roads Il
e dreadful in the winter time, labor
scarce, cold is cruel, heat is oppres-
'e, and lands which yield two tons
hay worth six dollars ton in mar -
t, bring sixty to seventy dollais an IS
re, while with our lands that yield
thousand pounds Of tobacco to the
re, worth in market from $40 to 500, an
= selling from SO to $50 an acre.
hen the facts are generally known,
d they will be In the near future,
IN ninety per cent. of our farm lands
j be profitable as they are now in H'
, prosperous and progressive West,
; only difference being that the
fits would be as ) to 10. The con-
st is not Over-drawn and if there is
comfort in it to owners and workers 10
Southside Virginia lands | do not
wv what can write that would give
m cheer. The only disadvantage / =
Or under in my effort to help build Do
the waste places Of this section of III
glnia comes from the old and oft
Gated fact that a prophet is not
bout honor save in his own country
among his own people.