The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22
new SYSTEM
OF FARMING
Scarcity Of Labor Makes Diff
ferent Methods Necessary.
INTENSIVE VS.. EXTENSIVE
Merchants and Farmers Taking Stock
in a New Steamboat Company.
Memorial to Rev w. r. D.
Moncure.

Especial to The Times ispatch.)
CONFORM, KING GEORGE COUNTY.
VA, Feb. 2l.-For some years past the
farmers here have been considering and
discussing the ACCESSIBILITY OF changing
their modus operandl and adopting a
system better suited to the conditions OF
the present time. Many things have
conspired to make some radical change
necessary, chief among these being the
scarcity and uncertainty of labor DUR
ing crop season.
1t often happens that when the farmer
has pitched" large crop and Is in
pressing need Of competent help. the la
Dor either goes North or demands higher
wages than can be paid for ordinary
farm work. and then the crop must either
be slighted to such a degree as to great.
ly reduce the yield, or be cultivated at
cost far In excess Of the market value.
A tenant system was some years ago
adopted as remedy for this labor evil
"a system Of farming on Shares" the
landlord furnishing the land and team
and the tenant. furnishing the labor.
But this system is not without objections
to many. and therefore Is not satisfactory
as a rule.
Many OF the farmers will this year
adopt the long talked Of Intensive sys-
tenn In place Of the extensive" sys-.
tenn, which has hitherto obtained.
This Intensive system means briefly
the cultivation OF a. small area in any
one crop. and such timely and thorough
cultivation as to Increase the yield per
acre.
FEWER ACRES.
one hundred acres In corn will now Gull
tivate ,some forty or fifty acres, and
a good many who have hitherto cultivat-
ed fifty acres will this year-and proba-
bly, hereafter-cultivate only twenty or
twenty-five acres, and thus obviate the
necessity OF hiring labor to any con-
siderable extent
has still other advantages. The culti-
walton OF smaller area will enable the
farmer not only to practice such thor
oughness as will increase the yield per
acre, but will enable him to divide his
farm into more fields than formerly.
and thus rest sthe worn out soil, grow
grass and raise cattle and sheep more
extensively.
a representative Of a recently organ
lied and incorporated steam boat and
transpor tation company OF Was hington,
D. c., Is making a tour Of this and
other counties Of the Northern Neck,
taking subscriptions to the joint stock
Of the company.
MONCURE MEMORIAL.
The Baptists OF Stafford and upper
King George are manifesting the deep
est interest In the w. R. D. A1oncure
Memorial Chapel. now In course Of erec-
ton In the former county. Mr.. Mon
cure was one of the most popular and
universally loved Baptist ministers of
modern times. and the people Of these
counties take great pride in erecting a
house OF worship to perpetuate his mem
DRY.
A good many colored men here have
been engaged to go to Marlborough. just
across Potomac Creek, in Stafford coun-
ty. to work at the big fishery, which
course of the next two weeks. Good
seine-haulers are paid s1s to s25 per
month on the Marlborough shore.
Some of the white labor here viii go
to the Crows Nest" neighborhood as
soon as the weather will admit of camp
Ing in the woods, to work for the COM
pany that recently purchased the i'm
to Europe. The timber is to be sawed
into logs. and the logs will be hewn
to a square with broad axes, before 1t
can be further prepared for shipment
to the old country.
IT is understood that Mr.. ]. B. Mat
tingley, of La Plata, Md, who recently
purchased several tracts of timberland In
Hooes Neck. this county. is arranging to
bring two large steam saw mills across
the Potomac for the purpose of convert
ing the timber into cross ties and scant-
ling for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany.
Captain Randall of washington. was
at Colonial Beach several days ago ar
ranging for the erection there of a
power house S0xsO feet. Captain Ran
dali, in addition to this power house.
will rebuild the Colonial Beach Wharf.
erect a rolla costa and build a large
addition to the hotel recently purchased
by him.
TELEPHONE CABLE.
It is reported that a telephone cable
will be laid across the Rappahannock
for the purpose of connecting King
George and Caroline and for the fur
thor purpose of putting a larger territory
in direct telephone communication With
fredericksburg, etc.
Mrs, Fielding Lewis, who underwent
surgical operation in Washington about
six weeks ago, has SO far recovered her
health as to be able to return to this
county. She Is now guest Of hor
daughter. Mrs, John S. Dickinson, at
Berry Plain, and will return to Marmion,
her home, in few days.
DR.. Whiting, of King and Queen, has