The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-08
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY RECORDS
1901

live in apartment houses ana cn"ui
the ,cXations Of municipal rapi
transit in order that they may D.
able 10 meet at stated time in th
morning. and learn what each has {
offer the other for sale, and compar
notes with re e,yationsl on what tn
telegraph has reported over night
The city i, intensely practical and IN
tensely abstract. Every second ha
il, quoiable value, actual OF specula
tive, bGt for any one man day is no
what he makes il but what he can gel
ont Of it as the upshot OF rs own acti
yities in relation to those Of severa
millions Of his fellows. The city man
has To suffer So many contacts, 81
many swift applications Of judgment
Inc must reverse or adjust his opinions
20 often that like the old woman 10
The iingle-b0ok, he sometimes won
ders If this can really be him. Peo-
pie should D OF live in aclty until they
are able TO Withstand the impact OF
that composite personality which the
city mea $. Young men, forinstance
should not go to the ETY. for any sort
of permanent stay, until they have
acquired distinct point Of view.
They must first be able TO assimilate
with some degree Of wi,d m, and they
must he capable Of eliminating al
every turn. Like a car wheel expos
ed to constant vibrations, man be-
comes i'm the city differently organ
led, and the odds are about even
whether he will finish on the scrap
heap or develop into useful C tizen.
After all, who cares TO live in the
city when the country road is being
made into street lined with farms in
place of lot, - by 1902 Are "mod-
em conveniences the desideratum ?
4 simple contriyance puts water in o
your house, the mail is at your door,
YOU order by the telephone what you
want al the store and the goods are
delivered by automobile. Ifyou must
20 10 town to buy a hat or hear some
Parsee lecture, the railroad is not i'm
accessible aud after day you are al
home again. Nothing can be more
certain than that the country IS be-
coming every day a more liyable
place. Isolation is impossible today,
but for those who want To be "more in
touchn and this generally means
very little the country is being re-
modelled. The Patent Oilice /, stack
ed with devices which only need eX-
and there is more and more
and more 90 come. Experts are show
ing as what TO do with our lands, aud
The multiplication OF banks is enab-
ling az to follow the suggestions.
Many Of Us will live to see, il not an
exodus from the cities, al least a ces-
sation Of the drain upon the country.
Even now our young men follow up
the rainbow 10 find the pot Of gold oy-
or the hills when by digging in the
front yard they might win plenty
with peace
Let as know first what we have.
An inventory is very necessary. The
Bureau Of Soils has done little WORK in
Virginia, but Prince Edward fortunate
is is one of the areas surveyed. The re-
port. equipped with an excellent map,
may be had for the asking and should
be in the hands Of every planter in
the county. The authors, Messrs.
Charles \. Mooney and Thomas A..
Caiue. are brief and to the point. Be
low are a few facts drawn from their
most interesting report The area
covered is 40 square miles, 275, i30
acres: Prince Edward county, from
the headwaters Of Buffalo and Briery
90 the eastern boundry Of the county;
the northeastern corner Of Charlotte;
a northern strip Of Lunenburg; and q
western strip Of Nottoway.
In am area having as little diversity
i'm photography as this, where there
are only six different soils, and these
occurring together over the whole
area. where throughout the whole
area the same crops are grown, and
where the people are all Of the same
origin. it is TO be expected that the
agricultural conditions will be similar.
the same crops are grown
generally over the area, the soils vary
greatly as TO fertility in different parts
of the area, and yields are affected ac-
cordingly. The distribution Of the
soils is such that fr three TO four
types are found practically upol every
farm, which permits Of a diversified
system Of agriculture. The people be-
long largely TO the older families Of
virginia. and are A. a rule conserva-
tive class. settlement began soon az
ter 1900 10y pioneers generally Of Eng
lish extraction, who came from the
more eastern communities of the
state. From the very first they grew
tobacco which soon became the staple
product Up TO the time Of the build
ing of the railroad, RichmOnd6O miles
away. was the market for the tobacco
which was transported either overland
1y wagon or by boat down the APP
pomattox and James Rivers. The
plantations i'm the early days were
large. and each plantation formed
an independent communi-
.y. Nearly every necessity was pro-
luced and manufactured on the plan
.ation and very little indeed was re-
mIred from outside sources. The
prontabIene,s Of tobacco growing in
iucsd the planters TO greatly extend
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