The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
.SANDY'S OLD.FARM
ANOBJECT LESSON
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an income producer He had some
money he had made by hard Hicks on
the commercial tourists road and Dor
roWed some more. for his plan was to
have ON the place only the best OF
everything, and 1t took money to sup.
ply them Then. he started in with
the idea that he must spend not lit
tie money to bring the old worn-out
lands UP to productiyencss before ho
could expect q profit.
Thoroughbred Throughout.
(, THE best OF everything" was indeed
his motto, and when he went to buy
horses he looked for thoroughbreds.
when he wanted to stock his dairy
plant he bought only thoroughbred
COWS; when he decided to raise his
own meat and have some to sell he
bought only thoroughbred hogs: when
he decided that he was close enough
to market for his wife to make lot
of pin money raising chickens, he Sc
cured only thoroughbred eggs and
chicks Even when he saw the need
of few hounds to chase tho rabbits
and old hares on the place, he got the
best strains OF beagles and for bird
hunting the purest Of pointers.
The other day I heard bright little
girl from city, who was visiting the
place for the first time and had spent
nm hour or more trying unsuccessfully
to catch young hare, say she verify
believed the rabbits and the hares wers
also thoroughbred--too thoroughbred.
in fact. for her purposes. Several pecan
trees and two English walnut trees.
planted on the place several years ago,
and now Just beginning TO bear fruit,
are also thoroughbred. The rose bushes
IN the beautiful yard and the vegetables
IN the garden are thoroughbred, and
!those two magnificent boys who are
now understanding the "old man" in his
twentieth century farming operations
ARE thoroughbred farmers and up-to-
ldaters. too. You couldn't drive those
boys off the farm, not even TO live in
80 charming place as Richmond. but
Of these boys will speak later
BY Way of illustration.
have already told in another article
pbout the Demonstration" methods.
which might more properly be called
"Sandy's methods" and go It is no use
to recapitulate here. Suffice It to say
that by the application OF these meth
'ods he has in the last twelve years
made an old worn-out Nottoway county
plantation one OF the most productive
OF farms and one OF the most comfort.
able homes in the State OF Virginia. and
he has been making money all the time.
Just one illustr ation Will do. l looked
to-day upon teu-acre plot which
twelve years ago was rented pJ Drum
mer' Sandy to a negro farmer for
Fourth OF the crop" True negro
was the renter, and everybody knows
how uncertain the average Southsidc
Virginia niger" farmer is. 1t may
be true also that that particular year
was not good time for corn CROWNS,
bu. be all that az It may be. the fact IS
sSonrth oh de crap
amounted to six bushels o: shelled corn
from the whole ten acres. and that
wear corn was selling for ~ cents per
bushel.
Quite Another Picture.
Year before last Q9l3) Farmer
SANDY gathered from that same ten
acres OF land 500 bushels of shelled
corn. or eighty bushels per acre. III
an adjoining field of the same size ne
last year gathered 1890 bushels. OF W.
bushels to the acre. This ten-acre lot
which brought from the renter only SIX
bushels of corn twelve years ago, is
To-day in hay, and unless the weather
and the seasons are unusually bad, Sandy
will cut from II five tons 10 the acre,
and. mind you, hay Is now selling a.
500 per ton. and by proper care and
proper cultivation. the land Is getting
better and better every day IN the
year. This is intelligent fartning-the
kind that is being brought out by thae
demonstration work" which l take up
three columns elsewhere TO tell ABOUT
Then and Now.
In twelve years the profits from this
farm have done wonders. The old orlcK
house built In the solid and substan-
tial way OF our forefathers, has been
enlarged; water works have been IN
PRODUCED, heating apparatus mas oeen
Installed, hot and cold water Is IN every
room, all of the conveniences LOT house-
keeping have been introduced. ana III
short, here in Nottoway county Is
home that has all of the convenience
and comforts OF a city home and al
~ the lawn and field and garden beau
,ies and comforts OF a farm place, ana
.vary cent to pay for the same was
5np ont of an old so-called worn out
Virginia farm. Great goodness Ihe'e
ARE no such things as WORKOUT Nif'
rinia farms, and will never be, as lons
as there arc Virginia farmers win the
nerve and the energy to wear them ~
again.
Other Things in Abundance.
There is a great deal of talk in THESE
latter days and a lot of complaint anou'
Virginia farmer boys leaving the ruro!
Sistricts TO make homes in the cities
So we'll regulated boy is going 70 leaV.
such farm as 1 have described lo'
There he has all that he can hnd ina
IS worth finding in any city IN th'
fTnited States, and great deal mors
Mat is desirable.
Mr.. Sandy does not confne himself g
1orn and hay. He raises all the oats
and wheat and potatoes and othe'
thines4 he needs. and OF all things al
ways has surplus to sell. IN aodl
lion he conducts model dairy, am
from rty-odd cows he makes none:
shipping cream to Richmond. he raise
Srst-class horses and sells colts ever.
Eear for good money. He raises hos
ind is meat seller,
He. or rather Mrs. Sandy, raise
gchickens and she is chicken an
egg seller, and they are raising y"
Of the finest boys in the State wh
are already hrst-class farmers, an
Aheir ambition is to improve on IN
cold man" One of them (Oldham) !
eighteen years Of age. and scott
lust sixteen, and they are ALREADY up
to-date farmers They started
members of boys corn growing club
and all the other kinds of clubs tina
make flrst-class farming study. the