The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-11
.FARMV|LlE MOVES AHEAD;
DIVERSIFIED INTERESTS
ENCOURAGEMENT to Varied Farm
Work Slogan of Bust.
ness Men.
HOME MARKET FOR PRODUCTS
No Longer PinninE Faith on One
Money Crop-Dark Shipping To-
bacco Is Not the Only Pebble on
the Beach.

the Beach.
FARMV1LLE. VA. October 1o--one
of the real solid towns OF Virginia is
Farmrille. II is one of the old towns
| and always has been solid. Financially,
| religiously. socially. educationally and
otherwise that is to the good. Farm
| vile has always been in the modest
| lime light The good old town has
never tried to play to the galleries or
to Eut OH any excessive airs but It has
always been solid
For many years. very manly. this
| good town has been the capital of the
| dark tobacco growing territory of vir-
gina. and the long black and The
lohS brown weed that used to com
mand all kinds of fancy figures in the
European tobacco markets were first
marketed here. and as q result a great
deal OF money was invested In the
town IN the building of factories and
urSinS plants and prizeries for the
nahuiihg or the dark weed, and in ware
houses for the first sales Of the same
III is known of all men that for the
past half dozen or more years there
has come blight on the dark tobacco
business In Virginia. The blight was
in no way due to any deterioration in
FALLING down of the efforts of the grow
ers, but due solely to certain trade and
| trafiic conditions that have enabled
the buyers of the dark stuff to control
the markets and to certain extent
make the farmer who grows the weed
only the servant of the manufacturer
| or government that buys it, The long
Ozark shipping" is consumed entirely
| IN foreign lands and those foreign lands
| MAKE government monopolis OF the to-
! pacco business. The principal govern
ments that are the buyers of the long
uarks have in recent years formed n
| Kind OF combine by which and through
! Mhich they name the price to be paid
| rms condition has been fully eNpIained
| and exploited I'm these columns. and il
Is not necessary to go into any further
! details here. The simple fact Of tho
business is that the governmental buy
ers have been putting the screws down
rather hard on the growers for several
years and now In addition to that the
great war in Europe comes along which
| practically cuts off the tobacco growers
of Southsde Virginia. that is those of
them who still pin their faith to the
long dark shipping stuff, from an out :
| side market.
This condition has hit the town of
| r'armrille hard blow from which IL
may suffer for several months vet. but
! In the end 1t is going to prove n hless.
Z
that have boon In the habit of doing
| their marketing and their tratiSnc, here
some wide awake business mon. the
oahkers of the town and the Business
Men Association saw this thing
| months, even several wears ago aud
they have been preaching the sood n nno'
and homny doctrine and the diversified
| crop doctrine. This war business comes
along In good time to impress these
sooa doctrines on the minds of the
farmers who live and move and have
their being in the rich and nro,Iucti,,
regions that surround Far,nvillc Hence
the war In Europe may in the end have
good effect over here In Prince ed
ward County. -
| inc bankers and the Business Mems
ASSOCIATION have been for several
years preaching to the Prince Edward
county farmers and those of Cumber-
lano and Buckingham and ,Nottowav
anu Amelia Counties who look TO
rarihviile as market, the doctine of
| DIVERSITY OF crops, the doctrine of hog
raising and cattle raising and rouI-
try-raising and grain and grass grow
!ieve In and practice this good doctrine
the Farmville bankers and business
men generally have been at work on a
new system of marketing which viii"
1t does not propose TO obilternte or evnn
10 discourage the tobacco selling bnsi
mrss, "oe a pr, propose TO make Fnrmvilie a
= los
the dark shipping tobacco.
JOINT committee from the Bust
ness Mems Association and the Farm
ers' Union have been at work for some
time on plan TO make Farmville n
cooperative shipping point in carload
lots of all kinds of farm products frnn,
n pound or butter up to the bale of
nay, or the dozen eggs up to 100 hush
els or potatoes, or from the bushel NJ
| wheat up to the carload lot OF Hour or
! the carload lot of corn. or from the
] dozen jars of preserved fruits nm 10
.he oozeh barrels OF apples or peaches.
! nave not time or space to enter into
detailed account of the plan. but !
! may say In general way that il in
NolVes great cooperative commits
sion and shipping house here in Farm
| vile that Will belong to all of the
peonie, ana VIII be the distributing
/ point from which the varied product 9
! OF this good county Of Prince Edward
and the adjoining counties that can
reach Farmville easily over good conn
try roads and narrow guage and broad
Euase railroads The movement is In
the hands or seeing and expert
enced business men; and should
Judge, from all that has so far come
| 70 the front, that the day Is near at
I hand when 1t Will be made n perfect
success.
ONE OF STRONGEST
BANKING TOWNS IN VIRGINIA
| Farmville is good business town
ana always has been. ] guess ac-
/ cording to population. II is one of
the strongest banking towns In the
state. There are here three banks
the old Planters Bank. the Peoples
National and the First National-oI,
OF which are In fne shape. The total
capital and surplus of the three banks
Is s2s9,e0o.s0 The total deposits foot
up nearly s750.00O Loans and dis
counts run up to nearly $1,000. 900, and
the total tootings Of the three banks
are something over s1,250.OOO
| The Industrial enterprises of the
town are its tobacco Interest, ITS