The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-02-22
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trees, buds. blossoms and fruits that
the fight against them amounts we'll
nigh 10 one Of exhaustion. The spray
process has already begun and will be
continued for months TO come. Each
tree will be sprayed five times and at
the cost Of 30 cents tree. And to this
must BE- added the plowlng, pruning,
gathering, packing, &c, &c. Some
years the profits are satisfactory and
then follows the "ofr year" and the
of prices. He told me Of this expe-
Renee: Was offered $3.50 barrel at
his home, but shipped them to Eng
| land and realized 63 cents a barrel af-
ter all expenses had been paid. This
was his mistake, however, and not that
Of the orchard. The spraying business
has gotten to be so lively that this
owner has ordered a gasoline engine to
pump the mixture to the tree tops.
Still would rather own this orchard
than the best Of tobacco farms.
have had some interesting chicken
talks Of late, too. One wide-awake
worker who is busy about other things
cleared $500 on chickens last year. His
effort is to double it this year.
4 successful lady school teacher
became interested in chicken culture,
quit the school room where she was
making S35 a month for seven months
Of the year, and is now making $50 a
month for twelve months Of the year.
She is making specially Of broilers
for New York swell hotels and gets
top prices for her eggs because they
are always fresh" She sells her
eggs and buys neighborhood eggs for
the incubators. And this is a daught-
er Of Virginia.
spent a cold night in well ap-
poi ted home recently, and the owner
ordered a colored boy to make fire in
nv room and Of course had none. !
spen. a colder night in another home
and after supper | was invited TO my
room where / found an old-time white
oak fire i'm wide open fire place in
full glow. | don't know that | have
seen sny such fire since "befo de wah. "
IL was more than fit for king. To
say that / enjoyed it is to putitmildly.
The next morning al an early hour
there was a gentle tap at the door and
i'm came the landlord, or proprietor Of
the home. with an arm full Of dry
wood and in five minutes there was
another blazing, glowing fire. On in
quiry / learned that he had m de the
fire Of the night before just as he was
making that Of the morning. lie did
il himself and it was well done No
order to the small boy but the man
event and did it, On further inqui-
~ | learned that this was the richest
man i'm the community. lie accepted
my money and gave me value in re-
turn. Labor may come and go, yea
may a d 90 but there will be no cold,
cheer ess hearth stones in this home
30 long az this worker lives to work.
And this is son Of Virginia. Verify
the labor problem is being solved. The
girls getting ice, the school teacher
making money raising chickens and
the old man making fires give prom
Use of better and brighter things in our
Southland. l repeat, the Anglo Sax
on race is not a dependent race.
met with a rare character in the
county Of Nelson. lie has been for
many years a member Of one Of our
evangelical churches, and yet, during
a pleasant chat with him he looked
me full in the eye and asked with en-
phasis: "Did you ever see a Christian,
sir?r told him he would have TO
explain his question, as / didn't
understand it. lie then proceeded
to say: 81 killed two horses a few
wears ago in an effort to find a
Christian but failed" and here is
the exp'anation. He inaugurated
prohibition fight in his county
expecting all Christians to vote with
him and after an earnest fight he sur
fered a disastrous defeat, and now
CHARGES that the Christians caused It,
and since then he is rather Of the opin'
ion that there are no "voting Christ
ians" at any rate. After The railroad
wreck i'm which President Spencer and
others lost their lives, / happened to
say in presence Of this same queel
man. "that was a mysterious proyl
dence.r wherelpon he shouted bach
at me. "nonsense, sir; what has prov
idence got to do with a railroad wreck
Mans folly and God had nothing t.
do with it," And yet in some re
spects my old friend is one OF tn
most devout men / ever met with
He will not agree, however, that ther'
is such a thing as an anti-prohibitiol
Christian. I have spent some mos
delightful hours i'm his presence an'
, As often as / can am sure to call OF
him. Dickens never portrayed NOR
interesting character.
enjoyed immensely Sunday viii
the Student Y. NJ. G. A. Conference
which met recently at the Universit.
of Virginia. There were more thar
POO delegates present and the sight o
them was inspiring while the speak
ing and the singing were Of high orde
Of merit-the fact is the very bes
= music ever listened to is made by
well trained qusrtette Of college boys
: Rev. Dr. Stone, Of Baltimore, wa
+ with them too, aud charmed then
with his genial presence and words q
genuine and glowing eloquence.
e mot an old Confederate soldier IN