The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-11-15
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EdHOr Herdid;-The Atlanta Con-
stitution had flaming editorial recent
ly, commendatory Of the Walton Tri-
bune, weekly contemporary Of that
State, for its work in the interest of the
farmers in the community in which ii
was published. Here is an extract
from it,:
"The hay crop i'm Walton county this
year will prove great blessing 10 our
farmers. In size il is probably the
largest ever saved. In driving through
the country recently the editor of the
Tribune saw nine large stacks Of hay
on one farm, almost every farmer has
sa' ed more or less hay. Our farmers
INDUCED in veritabe hay carnival
during the moving season, and they
will never regret the expenditure of
the labor necessary To save the hay
crop"
Nine stacks of hay, mind you, on one
farm, when the HERALD, mentioned
81 on one farm, in sight from the point
where its correspondent stood, and
more under the hill and out of sight
Just suppose that it had been reported
by the Walton Tribune, Of Georgia, and
then what a dellrium of delight would
have been INDUCED in by the Consttu-
ton, and this would have been emf
nently proper on the part Of Atlanta's
daily, for just that kind Of work on its
part has largely contributed in making
Georgia one Of the most progressive
and prosperous of our Southern sisters.
Again the Tribune says 1.-THE corn
crop Of Walton county this year j.
thing Of beauty to the man who loves
nature and the product of the soil. The
fields filled with ripe, full-eared, yellow
husked corn present pleasing contrast
scattered among other fields white with
cotton and the knowledge that they
will help feed so many Thousands of
people and horses, mules aud cattle this
winter lends additional beauty, the
beauty of utility. aud added interest 40
these fields which are the symbol of
abundant prosperity"
The writer failed to mention the
yield per acre, and this regret for /
have the thought that we could have
beat them in the corn test as we have
just done i'm the hay.
The Constitution did the whole with
this pleasant outburst:
"a repetition Of such scenes all over
Georgia would result in wealth "a well
a. comfort Wherever grass grows and
water runs the fortune has been half
made, and It only needs little appli-
cation on the part of the worker To
reap the reward"
Such newspaper work must be
valuable, and it ought to be Ia the
Herald's credit that il has long been
engaged in IT. IL is better than politics,
aud do not mean 10y this to intimate
that there is no place in the worlds
economy for politics.
| know at least one farmer who
doesn't regret that he attended the
FarmvilIe Fair He went home wear
ing a splendid pair Of shoes given a.
pr, MUM by Messrs. Richardson q
Crale, and a round silver dollar in hi'
pocket, premium from the Fair
The timber producing capacity o
this section Of Virginia grows on me
As have before written the HERALD
the busy, buzzing saw at work for ~
many years hasn't a. yet destroyed
this feature Of wealth ! verify believ
that If the timber which has beef
shipped from Prospect, on the y. x w.
and Meherrin, on the Southern, hat
been worked into its last value at th0s
respective points, instead Of two sma
towns we would have had two cities q
10000 each. We are making other
rich and not getting rich ourselves. /
sight Of Farmville we have numbf
Of farms with the original forest wealth
but little impaired, and if you woul
= know just how valuable IT Is reckone
Just try and buy it, aud what is true
e this immediate section is equally tn
of Others in Prince Edward and adjoll
e ing counties Still the wOodman h'
e not been sparing our trees, but h'
labored with might and main to destrc
a them.