Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-01-08

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and the vaIlev farp,ar. toll - :, 80
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thick with stand.natism whan = 49,
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comparison. The same with the Shen-
andoah Dutch and since mortgages are
as rare with them as plug hats and
wrist watches, where's the argument
10 move them
The stand-patters and 'sgrandfath-
ers' sons" have caught the silo fever
ard they are luying a deal of lime
rock and acid phosphate, but thew are
doing this on their own initiative. thank
you, and no experts need lin .er on the
premises.
Tnberville, a little village near
Harrlsonburg, ordered twenty-seven
ailos this fall. and all along that hun
drei miles of valley pike from Win
chester TO Staunton YOU will see silos
and great red larns outlined against
the wooded hills or5nestling in the river
bottoms. Collectively or individua!ly
the farms are pictures there isn't d
hint anywhere of sioyenly or sIopnv
work.
A very glib talke-, who seemed t.,
have every new wrinkle in farm prac-
tjce-aoiling, animal hushandry. the en-
tire gamut-on the tip o. his tongue.
told mr., when ran across him in
I1arrisonburg, Il at nearly every farm
er in Rockingham County was a soil
robber and that not one of them was
arning six per cent on his investment.
When / crossed over to the Rockine-
ham National Bark MIR Dnrledine.
tn cashier. informed me that these
same soil robbers had on deposit some
81, 500, 100 in tie county banks. Ten
years ago the total deposits for the
county were $3.50, OOO.s So far as the
present generation derives the benefits.
larceny from Mother Earth seems to
pay. It is up to the rising generation,
then to take the case lefore the Grand
Jury of Econt mics and apply for an
indie; ment.
They will fell Won m and down The
lono white n.ka that ,hev hove 10 ,.hor
troublas rbara arc faw negroes i
tho ysilav-a,most mona en,n,o,ad &c
farm hands. In Frederick County there
are many cions.of the best old Virginia
Observation-Disclosures aris.ocrats-
but there are few that ever owned
slaves and grew soft and lily white il
wrappings OF cotton wool. There is an
atmosphere Of old gilt in the very sun
shine at Winchester On eyery street
yolhdiscoyer the fine old lines of classic
Colonial SIMPLICITY, but there are nc
loafers on the street corners and there
are more signs of recrudescence than oil
decay. There is modern cold storage
warehouse with capacity for one hun,
dred thousand barrels of apples. an6
plans are afoot for the building d
another onei there are cooperating
plants to take care of the by products
There are up-the- minute spraying out.
fits. wooden and flour mills AMI man,
Dominion aristocrat rolls M his sleeve,
he can nnu me prize IN enterprise
notwithstanding that the Valley o.
Virginia shipped out one million barrels
Of apples i9 1911, wss told BY Mr.
Lupton-who among other activities
numbers that Of President Of the East
ern Fruit Growers Association tina
otchardlng is merely an incident to gen
eral farming activities. You can coun