The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-26
DEMONSTRATIONS
old CHESTERFIELD.
What Scott Parrish Has
Done onSome Grounds
Near to Richmond.
MINIBORYA FARM;
ITS DEVELOPMENT,
Flowers and Vegetables, Fruits
and Grasses, Cattle and Chick
ems, Milk and Butter-Sweet
Country Life, and Ali Be-
ing Dug Out of the
Ground at Profit.
by FRANK S. wooDsoN,
industrial Editor.

lnuuStrlul EuiIOfs
Somehow I can't get away from this
Virginia farm demonstration business.
and wherever find a demonstration"
who has really demonstrated" or. to
put 1t in palmer English. one who has
proven good thing to be good
thing in an agricultural and country
home making way, / tie onto him and
try as best 1 can to get from him
something about his experience so that
I may tell of it for the benefit OF
farmers and woud-be farmers who
would like to go and do likewise.
A friend told me the other day that
when he was up In Goochland county
attending court he heard an OLD rock
ribbed farmer of the ancient vintage,
ridicullng some Of my farm stories
in the Industrial Section. That old
Goochland mossback declared tnat the
principal writer for the Industrial
Section was not farmer, but news
paper man, and therefore in the very
nature OF the case, so he commended,
could not know anything about farm
ing Very true that may be. but being
newspaper man the writer may be
able to find out from practical farmers
and up-to-date farm demonstrators
what they have been doing along
twentieth century lines. and he may
be able TO print the results OF his
Investigations along these lines to ths
benefit and the enlightenment OF
twentieth century farmers.
Moyshncl<. VS.. Real Farmers.
OF course. have no knowledge OF
the old time way Of farming, and [
am thankful for my ignorance in this
respect. OF course, I have but little
practical knowledge of 1odern methods.
of farming but have sense enough In
a general way TO find out from men who
do know about 1t what methods they
have found and have proven to be tho
best and the only thing have tried
to do in the Industrial Section OF The
Times-Dispatch is to give twentieth
century farmers the benefit OF such
investigation.
OF course, old mossbacks do not cara
to learn anything. and. OF course. do
not care whether they read or learn
from this column or not. I am not
wasting any time writing tor their
benefit, for very we'll do know that
there is no use to butt ones head
against a brick wall am not writ
ing for old mossbacks and brick-wall
gardless of my knowledge OF farming,
know that is thankless task.
Youngsters to the Front.
And know some other things, too.
one Of which is that the biggest thing
ginia and for all the South as for
that matter. would be about 10000
tirst-class funerals with 10000 old
mossbacks heading the professions in
horizontal position. Give the young
men half chance on the Virginia
farms and there will be different re-
port to make in the early years to
come. and there will be fewer young
men leaving the farms to find homes
IN,
funerals would materially help this
good movement along.
What They Don't Know.
The old Goochland county moss
back above referred to (and am glad
that I do not know his nancy might
have commended. had my informant had
time or inclination to extend the dis
Sandy spent goodly number Of the
years of his life as a COMMERCIAL
tourist he knows nothing about farm
ing. but all the same Sandy has proven
that he does know more than all the
old mossbacks in the country
| The same old mossback, Or men OF
his kind, might contend that j. Scott
Parrish. of this city. who has spent
many years OF his life IN the develop
ment of one of the most splendid In
dustries of Richmond, could not In the
nature of the case know anything
about making old worn out lands In
Chesterfield county within seven miles
of Richmond productive and profitable.
but all the same Scott Parrish has
done Just that thing, and there is to-
day no finer or more valuable farm
estate in Virginia or all the South
than his Miniborya Farm.
Mlniborya's Fine Exhibit.
I went out last week to the Mini
borya Farm and saw for myself. I
think know a good farm when see
1t. and am prepared to say that there
is no more lovely or profitable place
In all Virginia than Miniborya.
Eleven years ago or Whereabouts Mr..
Parrish bought lis acres of old worn
out lands on Falling Creek. just
seven miles from Richmond. His orig
inal object was simply to make for
himself and his family Just plain
little country home, and the idea OF
developing this splendid property into
a money-maSing farm did not occur
to him at the time Of the purchase.
However. he was man of discern
ment and good business man withal.
and he was tho owner OF the acres
not a great while before he conceived
the Idea that the place could be made
money-maf1er as we'll "a nice coun
try home and for the life OF him ha
could not see why the two ideas should
not work tremendously, Well, 1t re-
quired little more money. maybe
great deal more. to harmonic the
ideas, but luckily Mr. Parrish had a
way of raising the capital. and he
Went to work accordingly.
Bnsiness Foresight Comes In,
In the first place, he had to set HIS
land in shape. and he made much OF
a study as 70 how to do that thing.
AS far as have been able to gather
from him. his methods varied very
little from those I have already de-
scribed in this section OF The Tines
Iojspafch, the methodA practtced hv