Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-14
IVY FARMER PUTS IT
RIGHT UP TO KO|NER
ans on State Commissioners for
Sure Receipt for Getting
Rich,
rLANs FOR NoNBURNING BARN
"epartment Is Bewildered by Ava
'ancho OF Inquiries as to Every
problem Which Has Ever Puzzled
hSriculturfsts in This State.

come bathing problems are out be-
'''e Commissioner OF Agriculture
Gorge W. Koiner by farmers writing
the chief OF the department for ad-
zee on farming. ono OF the most
'"'ricate puzzles in agriculture the
''m'nissioner has encountered In all
MS experience, however, was presented
scsteroay in lengthy communication
'Fon tiiler of the soil whose post
''hce address IS Ivy. Va.
This gentleman" commented Di-
'ector OF Farmers Institutes ]. j. owen,
'tter perusing the 1879 questions pro-
FUNDED by tho correspondent. "is no
Pa'h farmer. He is an agriculturlst.
Aso think he liz a horticulturist,
an arhorealist and an agronomist"
The man writing from Ivy conf,dcs
70 Commissioner Koiner that farming
worrying him heap He says he
qiit II for a while and went into real
estate trading In Washington. D. C..
nut a property slump put him out Of
business Al another time he pur-
,haSed land in Florida. and went into
range growing. y hard freeze came
aionE and wiped him out
SENDS AVALANCHE OF
INQUIRIES AND COMMENTS
Ills letter reads IN part:
f!easc send me Farmers Bulletin
40 -. In re apple orchards and how
20 plant and spray. Have YOU any
spray calendars? Also send me annual
bulletin regularly. and any other data
on Virginia farmers propositions. in
Guiding Irrigation. How about tile ir-
risauon. drainage combination plant.
WIN stops. as for celery. Also any
'reaus" on your experience on John
son grass IN rcd clay-land that washc ,
badly.
Tell me what the tenacity as to
growing IN land that oats. timothy
ana clover spews out OF IT, When
should Johnson grass be planted to
stick: How about green and hay.
and " II will aid redemption OF gals.
Drought stunted. Some seasons plenty
of rain here.
II you can tell me how TO make
money on 500 acres--thirty In orchard
ninc years. WinesaHS. Stayrnans, Works
and Black Tw!gs: some old peach trees
scattered through apples. with broom
h"dcc pasture Gorty acres) and mtg
woods, with several streaTns: balance
- IN starved washes, which is a sight
II VIII bless YOU.
WANTS CURE FOR OLD BRICK
HOUSE WITH COLD ROOMS
About eight acres OF timothy had
sand IN soil; II stood fairly we'll; clover
all dead. Have sprayed apples we'll for
,"O years, but the gals almost Ee,
my Angora. Last year We had seventy
Two barrels Of corn twenty acres.
bu, got started late. and then tho
horses got forage poison from modify
fodder and ;wo died. The old brick
house has large cold rooms. and no
tenant house Oh place.
We owe 5000 and want a living
on $4,000 value. No apples yet. and
peaches nil. Hogs and milk helped Nv
ing some Soil has several good acres
blue grass a; house. Not plowed for
many years. showing once upon q
time land had something in II.
is Johnson grass our salvation
some say II Is pest. but this valley
has much summer drought that any
grass that will forage hay and stay
tn" winter washing looks good.
Tell me about our next move and
send all the seed. demonstrators. gas
tractors that won't die hard and barns
that won't burn (ours did with all
tho old CROP that each man IS en-
titled TO under the section OF Virginia
Ecyiscd Statutes"