The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-16

would 'cuss out" all OF its factions
ana everybody pull together for tho
| general good. That magnificent county,
with it's splendid county seat could be,
ana ought to be. a little empire unto
itself. II VIII never do 1t until its
ioiks set In the habit of pulling to-
| sether, and when they do get Into that
habtt the general profits will foot UP
much more largely than all OF the
salaries of all OF the county Offices
named In the dccalosuc, and these
seem to be the primal cause OF tho
| dissentions and tho factions.
Sweet Country Life.
Somebody. don't know who, has
sent me picture OF a little log cabin
and the sender has written under IL
IA children's playhouse on the farm"
l nave asked the artist of The Times
Dispatch to print 1t somewhere in to-
ua!s Industrial Section. don't know
whether he Will find room for 1t or
not, but | hope he Will. a playhouse
on the farm for the children is n zinc
tning; Every farm in Virginia ought
| 70 nave one. y great trouble with
| farm life In Virginia. has Ions. been that
there was so much work for so little
play. The baby on the farm, the little
@ri or the little boy on the farm.
| needs 10 play Just as we'll as the baby
or the boy or the girl in the town.
Don't pat the little things to work too
| soon H N
Give them some time to play ana
something to play with. YomI'know
| we are trying TO Keep the Virginia
farm boys and the farm girls at home.
Maybe We old folks are moro to blame
Tor their carly departure from the farm
Ithan they are y playhouse on the
farm IL mighty attractive thing and
the kind that is pictured in another
column does not cost much. doubt
II 1t cost as much as s.. but even IL ii
should cost forty times as much it
would hea good investment.
| Women Corn Growers.
! r. s. Farrar, the assistant State
agent, In charge Of farm dcmonstra-
ton work. is something OF an orator
as well rs farmer demonstrated. He
tor, too. for ] am told that last week
| nc dared to 20 over TO Farmville and
make speech to the students VI the
Female Normal School there on the
first blush wondered what a lot of
| young women, prospective school
inarms,. had IN do with corn growing.
ana ana, why Farrar thought IL well 10
talk to such an audience on that sub
Jet On second thought. | am sure
! Farrar knew his business. The best
| teachers In the world are the women OF
virginia, and the more they know the
more they can teach. God forbid thai
the good women OF Virginia will ever
have to 60 out and actually work the
enan, but II Is nj right that they
+, how to go out and do that very thing.
] gness Farrar acted wisely when no
| went to Farmville to tell the fair
te ei, q. how TO make corn. They will
| tell 1t all right That's woman turc
Ahnut NlrEtnin Fruit
| From Albemarle count; ana from
Augusta ana from Nelson Il got on
ness Down here in Richmond the lov
ers Of the p!ppins ana tho winesaps
and the good peaches We're almost on
nc point OF having the jim-jams as
/, me cold spell continued much I'm int
April and they were going around
| with long faces and bcmonninr tho
| iacs that Virginia grown applies and
InrarhcS would mt show IN this year.
know how the Virginia orchardists
have caught on. | am certainty NOT
going to tell Just how II happens. hut
| the fact Is that Virginia fruit grow
crs are not near So fearful of spring,
| frosts MS the. need to he Some Of
the old-timcrs sweat and fume about
irosts,, hut the twcnticth-ccntury fell
| lows know how to hoodwink jack-
frost every year. There will he n
big apple crop and good peach crop
In Virginia this year and next year
| frost has been BUNDLED. ana there is
+, no longer any fear Of him. Don't fret.t
! the Virginia fruit cror is Just as sure
as ne corn crop or the tobacco crop,
4
Of ,crop. and Old Virginia can MAKE
| ali the kinds.
County Fair Contests.
Chesterhcid county man was in TO
! see me the other day. and he told INC
that the county fair TO he held in old
| Chesterfield this coming fall is going
to he big thing, something indeed
ahat Is Is, likely TO make the state Fair
! says the outlook Is that the exhibits,
which will nc mostly OF farm products.
! will be larger and more varied than
any exhibits that any county fair will
be able to show. Maybe my friend,
| who may be given to boasting. was
talking through his hat but somehow
! Ike that kind Of hat cloatlencc, BE
| II remembered. there will he about
thirty county fairs this year, and 1t
! may be that old Chcsterfelds exhibit
| will hit the high water mark, and It
Viii II the ether counties do not get
! since have allowed the Chestcrncldian
| to do little hoastinG. tho other coun-
ties and the authorities of the other
may 60 him one better. hone they
Will all try It. Wish could in some
way get up kind Of county contest. a
| hroiherly rivalry. so TO speak, fight
| county fairs can make the best show.
Go nj It. hoys. and to the hest OF You
big premium. and NAV the hindmost
escare the clutches OF his satanic ma
| jesty.
| Ward ~ CInrksyiIIc 5J
Tho town Of GAINESVILLE. IN IN Meek
| lenburg county. has long hcen a bidder
| for the central point on the Interstate to-
national highway. that is to he Its
| bid Is based upon tho fact that II al
ready has good roads out from tho
town In al least three directions ana
/ the further fact thai IT has the only
| bridge across the Roanoke River
above Roanoke Rapids These arc two
| splendid assets for Clarksvlllc. and L
| should not wonder II they do n sight.
in the way OF getting the national
| highway to run through the old town.
| but Clarksville must not hank too
/ largely on It's ma4radam roads and its
| nne bridge. That town can have lots
| Of other good things that Will attract
| folks and Investors If Il will look out
! for them But 1t must DO some look
| Ing out OF It's own. It can't afford to
! sit down and wait for things Ia come.
| or perchance while it waits some liver
towns Will rush In and catch the fish
and trap the birds and rake In the
nrofts. Natural advantages arc fne
things IN their way. bu, they are not