The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-01
SMALLER FARMS
FOR OLD VIRGINIA
That Is the Latter Day Cry.
Big Plantations Being
Cut Up.
COMPANY OUT FOR PURPOSE
Atwood-Kennedy Company Buy
Big Dinwiddie Plantation to
Make Little Farms.

There is growing tendency in
Virginia to cut mp the old planta-
lions OF huge Dimensions into small
farms all the way from five acres up
10 a hundred. bat mainly not greater
than fifty acres. The more rapid this
tendency grows the better IL Will he
Tor tho prosperity of tho Old Domin-
ion tor the man with the small farm.
instead Of the broad aero Irantntion.
Will necessarily have TO lie an 'inten-
svc farmer whether he was reared
10 that idea or not and intensive
farming is the demand OF the hour.
was very much Interested in a
talk the other day with a man who
has gone into the small farm bust
ness, that is TO say. he and his as
sooiatos saw tho tendency TO small
farms. and right we'll they knew that
10 the man or the men who exert
their energies to the encoura gement
and pushing along OF this tendency
There are good profits coming.
Small Farm Company Incorporated.
Thus it comes about that the At
Wood Kennedy Company was incor-
porated with S5o.ooo to 100000 capt.
tai The business of the company is
TO get control by purchase or other
wise Of large plantations In Vir-
ginia, develop them. cut them up into
small farms OF from even ave acres
up 10. say nifty or more acres ana
sell them on good terms to men who
ARE ready to engage in intensive farm
ing on the good and ricn lands OF
old Virginia, where any and every
thing can Toe made to prohtably re-
apond to modern methods of cultiva-
ton.
The company. which now has Of
nces in Petersburg and Kcnbridge.
and VIII, within the next month, omen
an office in Richmond also is man
aged by these officers: G. T. Atwood.
president. J. L. Grafton. Jr. vice.
president. D. T. Kennedy. secretary
and treasurer This compuny has alb
sorbed the real estate concerns Of
H. T Kennedy & Co, OF Kcnbridgc.
and j r Mckenna Is Co. Of Bremo
hluT, Mr.. McKenna has charge OF
the Petersburg Office and y. w Bell,
f7rmerly OF Richmond. holds down
tho Kenhridgc office and the other Of
iicers overlook both ana are much
on the go in search of big plantations
10 he cut UP into small farms.
First Investment In Dinwiddic.
The company has Just purchased
outright a Plantation In Dinwiddie
County that measures something over
525 acres and this is being surveyed
and laid of into small farms, ana
near about tho centre a little town is
expected to grow up and for this
purpose nifty Or sixty acres have been
laid off into lots, and in due tmo
there Will be an auction sale OF man
niacturlns sites. business yots bPd
residence lots The farm IS located
On the scahoard Air Line Railway. in
Dinwiddie County. sN miles from Pc
torsbu.g and twenty-eight from Ricn-
mond The station located near tho
centre Of tho property. is known on
the map as Burgess. and it is around
this station that tho town is TO
sprins ~. The plantation purchased
~ this onterprisins company was
known for uany years as the Bur
CESS Farm" and Inter it was equally
as we'll known as Oakland stock
Farm Right through its centre runs
the old Notwithstanding Turnpike,
which has recently been made one OF
the best roads IN tho State. ana has
been accepted as one OF the links in