Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-10-19

,rOp Oi lrish potatoes snipped over INC
: & O.. ard got the best price for them
saw last spring German clover grow
ing on land that eight years ago would
only produce tickle coats and hen grass,
He followed the clover stuoble, ana
had the best crop OF corn l ever saw
GROW ON light land. lie was offered by
"A Western man few days ago nearly
three times what he gave i"r the place.
NV manager ON Hill Pleasant farm
planted last year three acres IN water !
melons; and sold them IN the patch ioi
sl4O. This looks like money could b'
made farming When asked if money
,u be made any other way, alwaA
think Of the richest man IN James city
who came from Long Island a cook on "
vessel and made his fortune IN the oyster
business. think OF a young man OF
York river. whose father was killed dur
ing the war. leaving him an infant H'
never had a days schooling, but by
honest industry IA the oyster business. s.
has acquired "a comiortablc home. a M,
farm on York River. and Is makn
money fast. ] thiuk OF a coloIod barL,
who lcit Richmond some years ago Wiz.
the implements OF bis trade and $50 De-
longing to his wife. and now has 4,
mammoth store in tie city OF Williams
burg and is worth his thousands,
could mention many who make none,
hshing In the James river, and in pursu
ing that new industry. conNuting stu
econ roc into caviarc. The timber bus
ness. now depressed. Will again beProh'
able, as We have pine, oak, cypress hic
ory. etc. in abundance. Hay can D.
pro6tably raised on the improved land.
, while the salt water meadows, WIN,
p once the coavsc grass has been cut oi
produce good hay Lands favorab
' situated like those ON the James riv
@ affords grazing all the year, and q
=" earliest spring lambs sold IN the Ne
iN York market arc raised here. We ha
% inexhaustiblc beds OF mari yielding 81
''' per cent. of carbonate of lime, and wh
g crushed is of great agricultural val
ia the shipment of this has already co
es menced and 1 think will icrease' Tn
'"' / can safely say that thereis apossibili
Of making money here by farming
tic well as 10y other business.
"'' "4th. Isit pleasant place 70 IL
la Williamsburg was once the Colon
'"' Capital, the refinement, wealth and &
'''' ture OF the whole state conferred here;
'u' Impress is still felt here and in the 5
eS sounding country. and no better soci
can anywher be found. We have ],
country, and good driving. boat
bathing, fishing, shooting and hunt
a man Neth ALeAhN AlloAN AAiotANN ltaf
-, here than he can working elsewhere.
friend killed last week twenty-four d,
sora, which. At 80 cents per d,
TINS would make good wages We 81
tLe deer, turkeys. geese, ducks, birds, h
from. and squirrels. and hunt as the Ems
, ~. do, foxes; one pack OF thirteen ho'
Sstarted last season forty-six and car
Iorty-four. We have no club hol
'io'" etc. Buy good books and read I
oOta- keep the children at home, get acqu
than cd with them, study their tastes and
i O, ents, and train specially.
in this article have not auude'
our infant city, Newport \
uSAs' or its twin city Hampton, with
seen magnificent industries. My effort
et L, been to write OF section OF the Pen
oo+. la not now so well and favorably kl
but W hich, in the near future, viii be
the most populous and wealthiest
nluC'' tion OF the state"
have
rs at
oarFei If Judge Henley were here today