The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-12

iantie Coast Line Railway. and Of
tw 1aanf, I VII speak later, 10 also ~
etlt cleaning factory. but IL has a
iha set q merchants. who handle
me me, nuts IN an extensive way Jar
iatt with two railways competing forI
i,ts freight. has rare facilities for hand
ing the peanuts that are grown within
as t,erritory and the farmers there
product ~ their lands. .Tarratt Will
ere long lave a eletning factory.
WenIth In Its Farms.
sussex nag always been n famous
asricu, turnl county. There are planta
Lions lions IN me county which have been
more than 100 years that Will yet pro-
duce. handsomely. These lands respond
ADMIRABLY I to al sorts OF fertilizers.
.ivate and handle. and yield abundant
~ wren properly cultivated. Tho pea
nut crop " money-tnaker, Is very
e., .io, to -, cultivate. which can be done
with oeanut digger digger and pi"t thresh she
with peanut thresRer at the rate of
400 TO 500 bushels per day
me lazy negro does not cut much'l
OF a hsutc In the successful cultivation
or the peanut In Sussex county. The
!m.i n.u ol Is pr,e,emlnently the white
Fruit-raising Is In these latter days
very profitable part of agriculture.
The time was when Virginia farmers
considered fruit-raising as a mere play
thing, and they had peach trees and
apple trees and strawberry beds Just
for FIN, and to furnish a side luxury
for the old folks at home. In latter
years VirGirians have learned that
there is Profit in peach trees and straw
hnr IL, u,,l t., to
has this fact heon made more manifest
than IN Sussex cnrnty. II is natural
that sucli should le the case. for In
no part Of Virginia Is the climate bet
ter suited or the lands more adapted
to fruit culture than right here in
Sussex county.
The same conditions that make fruit
growing profitable conduce to market
gardening. which, because OF the
ladaptability of the soil, is easy. Added
to this is the splendid location as to
markets. To every part of the county
large city markets are accessible
Norfolk. Portsmouth and Suffolk on one
side. Petersburg and Richmond on an
other, and New York, Baltimore and
Philadelphia in easy access by water
Transportation from Norfolk, all COM
| hine to make Sussex county truck
ing county that has but few, II any
equals.
Talking with Judge West about the
| timber lands of the county, he became
enthusiastic. Said he:
"The finest timber in the world
| grows here. such as yellow pine, white
oak ash. hickory. gum, cypress, maple,
! poplar, dogwood, cedar birch. red oak
and post oak. While vast quantities
of timber have been cut and manu-
i s.to 49,, In, lie tpfN
yet there still remains standing large
quantities of very fine timber to be cut
| and manufactured. Experience has de-
monstrated that the yellow pine,
which seeds itself when land is left
! uncultivated, will come up and grow
into sawmll timber in from twenty
| five to thirty years and pay over 10
| per cent. per annum on an investment
| in the lands of this county. at the
presen. price. and at the present price
OF standing timber. An investment In
| these lands cannot be surpassed
Stock Rnising.
From the information I have been
able - gather can but reach the con-
| clusion that IL a man Is in search of
a region that offers facilities for stock
| raising that cannot be excelled by
Kentucky. Sussex county Is the loca-
| ton he is hunting for. The native
grasses afford excellent pasturage for
cows, sheep, horses. mules. hogs and
| goats for seven months of the year
for which time this stock will fatten
without additional food and keep In
| fine condition, and for the other FIVE
months of the year with little food and
| what the natural pasture affords. this
stock will keep in a growing condition.
Much Game and Fish.
1
ment to the bar and bench, but game
sportsman and an enthusiastic fisher
man as well. tells me that there Is no
section of the State or of the South
that offers more cnticements to the
fisherman and the gunner than the sec
ton from which I am writing. Game,
such as deer. wild turkey, partridge.
hare, squirrel. beaver, opossum rae
coon and duck. abound in this and adj
joining counties, and to sportsman
this section offers all that heart could
wish. An opportunity to secure game
preserves is now open here, and an in
weston for this purpose would be sure
To- get his money back, with 10 per
cent. per annum on the outlay. from
the growth of timber thereon in the
course OF twenty years, besides the use
of the lands.
/ Sussex county has all kinds of rail-
way transportation facilities and all
kinds Of competition for freights. I
do not hear any complaint in these
parts about freight rates. Some wise
| philosopher has said 1.-THE best thing
with which to tame a railroad is an
other railroad" Sussex county has
enough railway lines to guarantee
tameness to degree.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and
Norfolk and Western Railroad pass en-
tirely through the county from north
IT., south. the Atlantic Coast Line fur
nishing transportation for the people in
the western section of the county and