The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-08
BIG Big YEARS. WORK.
THINGS ON AHEAD
F'romAll Parts of the Old
Dominion Come Very
Cheering Reports.
BUSINESS GOOD
AT ALL POINTS
The Year That Is Ahead Should
and Probably Will Prove Bet
ter Than the One Which
Has Just Died-Plans OuS.
lined for Industrial
Section.
BY FRANK s. WOODsoS.
Industrial Editor.

from all parts of Virginia come most
cheering induatrsal reports as the good
business In nearly all lines transacted
the past year is being footed up From
every one of the twenty cities in the
state and from all the larger towns
there come reports that make the
heart glad. Taking all OF the many
industries known to the State from
Goa mining and gold mining and quar-
rying to brick making for building
purposes; from cotton manufacturing
70 shirt making and overall making:
from tobacco manufacturing to cigar
and cheroot making; from plain coun-
try saw milling to box and barrel man
utacturinG and finishing timber work;
from peanut growing up to the distri-
button of the nuts throughout the
world from the various cleaning and
working factories; from IRON mining
TO the finished work turned out by
the various nail. horse shoe. stove and
otner iron working factories. up to the
building OF steam engines, all of the
reports are of the cheering kind
Backbone OF 1t All.
The reports from all the banks in
the state, with here and there an ex-
ception, are of the pleasing kind. a
richmond banker told me yesterday
.here was less trouble recorded in tho
banking world in Virginia last wear
IMAM In any year since the war Be-
tween the States. and behind all OF
these good reports there come even
more splendid reports from the back
bone OF 1t all-the agricultural dis
tricts' guess. from all accounts that
nave come up, that the farmers of
virginia as a class have never done
peter In any one year than they did
| iast year They are learning how to
grow things that they never grew be-
Iore' and grow them probably. and
virsihia farmers are learning more
raplolS' perhaps. than their brethren
IN some other Southern States thar
farming Is a science, an industrial husi
ness subject to the laws of supply
ana demand, and as much a matter or
business thought and calculation as a.
shoe factory or tonacco factory. or
any other Kind of factory
Tie Renl Business on the Farm
some virginia farmers have reached
the conclusion that to Farm successful-
~ more good sense and more careful
ejaculation and more astute bookkeep-
ing are required than in the manufac
turing line. And those who have reach
90 this conclusion. and are acting and
governing themselves accordingly. are
making big success of the greatest
industrial pursuit known to the world.
| virginia farmers, as rule are
ahead OF the game, got ahead of IL
last year, and they are going to stay
ahead of 1t In the future or course. I
an '"iAiiiB now ABOUT real farmers, 4
men who know a thing or two. and vat
| realize that they do not know If ali
ana are willing to learn from demon
strators and other instructors In tho
science OF farming. Unfortunately.
there are lot of people in Virginia
VINO are classed as farmers who are
not real agricuiturists. They are the
white fellows who refuse to he lno
structed and the brother in black who
cant be instructed. or who can't mus
ter up the needed energy to make use
| OF the little instruction he is capabls
or holding These are the men who
reduce the average in any given line
| OF products. -t
Averages Pulled Down
| Take corn. for Instance we hear ot
men, ana boys, too. who make from 100
| 10 100 bushels Of corn 10 the acre. ana
yet the general average or The State
Is less than thirty bushels to the acre.
| Inc Fellows mentioned above arc the
ones who reduce this average If
isiNteen-yea old boy can 10 beyond loo
bushels TO the acre, the stronger ana
/ ihc mlShtier old man o. he struneer
ana mighticr tolored farm lsbarer
ought to do the same thing. bu; they
cant do 1T. ana the reason why they
| do not IS To be found in tho fact liar
they do not bring INTELLIGENCE and
! muscle to bear US wAll as The up-,o-
date boy does.
! The Year Ahead
! The Industrial Section ilatters itself 4
that 1t had somewhat TO do with help Ii
/ ing things along the past year: that 1t
has 20 certain extent helped the
manufacturcr the merchant. tile bank
r or and the farmer 10 do better, things
/ by Keeping them posted as the days
/ went by as TO whal other parts OF the
state were doing. ana all that Kind OF
: thing. The Industrial Section also
knows that it has done not n it'll, In
the matter of calling attention of the
outside world l. the grand possibin.
/ lies IN all lines in old Virginia 1t liz
+ proud Of that work. AMI the plans for
! the good year 1911 are to enlarge This
| good effort. During the present year
\ the industrial editor expects 10 VISIT
every city and good sized town of the
state and find out what they arc doing
and what they propose 10 do. and let
/ the world know all about T. The farm il
ing interest will also be looked after.
and II Is the hope and bolief OF The
dispatch that IL VIII be able to
/ do much towards building up all the
towns of the state and all of the back
/ country too That Is what it is here
| Tor. and II is ,~o,ng to do its level best
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