The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-30
WESTn0RELaUD.
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Prospects Another Corn story.

Correspondence Of The FREE LANCE.
M0ntross, Va, Jan. %, 1902
Owing 10 the prOtracted freeze,
followed by heavy rain falls, but little
farm work has been done. More ice and
ul better quality has been housed than
for years The public roads are in bad con-
ditiOn. and in some sections where they
are 80 much used. are almost impassable.
Capt. Robert Sanford, residing near
| Shiltons an octOgenarian aud well and
lavorably known throughout this see
| ton, died Saturday morning last.
The stOre-hOuse at CuriOman wharf,
with all its contents of merchandise,
kept by Mcssrs Reed X Jones was
consumed by fire some nights since, on
which there was no insurance The pro-
prietors now occupy aud carry on their
business in the warehouse, located on
| the end of the wharf.
Mr.. John VI. HUT has recently pur-
chased the farm and stOrehOuse owned
| by the Rev. II II FOnes, ior which twelve
| hundred dollars cash was paid. This
farm and storchOuse il located on the
telephone road leading to King George
county and in sight of MOntross. The
store will be occupied by Messrs. Brady
HUT and Stanly Walker
Ii is said that Mr. Il l.. Gutridge, near
Baynesville, who has conducted success
full mercantile businesses for many years,
will sell out and close business on &c
count of impaired health
DR.. &. C. Mann has gone on n Western
| trip Of three or four weeks, will visit
| Cleveland. o., and other Western points
on business Mrs Mann. who remains ut
Montross, receives letter each day from
the Doctor.
Mr.. Thomas r. Jackson, proprietor OF
| the Jackson Hotel, at MOntross, has ac-
cepted travelling position ~ salesman,
| for n well known grocery house OF Alex
andria. which position was filled for
| many years by the late } z Stifl. Mr..
Geo. \. Sandy has also accepted posi-
ton for Wholesale confectionery house,
and is on the road
Considerable quantity OF corn has been
shipped to the markets from this county
and sold nj prices very pleasing to the
shippers
Hogs. pigs and shoats have never been
so scarce in this county as at present.
| The home demand has been 40 great
that some have purchased shoats in
Washington markets. 4 shoat weighing
81 or lOlb gross. will bring 81 here.
The farmers all over the county are
much discouraged at the present pros
| poets for wheat crop. which looks sick
| ly aud exceedingly unpromising.
4 Western agricultural Journal, publish
cd last March, that il would distributs
! n quart OF superior seed corn among IT.
subscribers giving each one quart, charge
ing the receiver with the postage. 20 cts.
on the quart of corn After the harvest
| ing the product of the quart of seed, each
contestant for the $3.50 cash prise was
required To send up tn this agricultural
journal three OF the most perfect ears
grown by him, and SO make a
sworn statement before a justice or
notary public to the number OF pounds
of sheled corn grown from the quart
Mr.. T.. +. Porter, an enterprising farmer
at Montross procured quart OF the ad-
vertised corn. which he planted and
realized .443lbs OF corn. The quart
planted ( of an acre, aud con-
tanned 400 grains. the yield was
enormous, being about ~ bar
rels to the acre and many thought Mr.
Porter would fall heir to the $3.50 gold
prize He forwarded OF the most per
feet ears grown by him, and complied
with the terms oicontest, by making oath
TO the quantity OF corn and received very
complimentary letterirom the publishers,
saving they would see that he receive,
right treatment, when awards were
made, etc. Recently the paper published
a long list the contestants, the quantl-
ty of corn grown from the quart, mode
of cultivation, etc.
In the list is the report OF q party IN
Louisiana. made under OATH that 0,o9l
lbs of corn were raised from the quart.
The paper says the result is remarkable,
but not impossible. Such result from <
acre is equivalent to Hobbs or A, 776lbs
of corn. Mr.. Porter has written the
journal that he misunderstood the
case. that instead of its being a
corn growing contest it seems to have
been a question as to who could tell the
biggest corn yarn Now, after such a
sworn statement as above, coming from
Louisiana State afflicted by drouth the
past season. what has our Caroline
friend. whose report OF corn stalks and
pOtatOe vines siuce appeared in The FREE
LANCE i'm September last, to say? l..