Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-09
GREAT CHANGES SEEN
IN JAMES CITY COUNTY
Wonderful Advances Made Along
Agricultural Lines in Last,
Few Years.
MODERN METHODS ADoPTF
Day Of the One-Horse Plow Has
Passed-Labor-Sav and Eli
Client Farm Machinery Now Is
Being Used.

Z Being Used.
y WILLIAMSBURG. VA. July S.-A
short time ago prominent business
! man remarked to another that he had
:, travelled through the Peninsula coun-
!. ties of Virginia regularly for several
8 years and had roamed around extern
I sively In other parts OF the state. and
; that he had noticed that within the
previous three or four years James City
n County. one Of tho smaller counties,
lad made even more wonderful adj
{ rancement along agricultural lines
. than any county that had come under
. his observation
1t is probably true tina: few If any,
? counties in the State had more room
for Improvement than this county but
!, all the same. Z. NJ Sla wson, the county
demonstration agent Of the, govern
mental and State cooperative work.
who overheard the remark. could only
: be pleased. for the observation came
: from ore who did not know that he,
through the agency Of demonstration
: work in the county. WAS doing great
deal in the shaping OF the destiny OF a
: county and section that for so long a
time was backward.
OF interest not only in williamsburg
and James City County, but throughout
the Peninsula and the State To sum
up demonstration work and its in
f1uence in James CITY County. it is
necessary to look back few years
and note conditions as they then exist
ed Five years ago one might have
J, seen the deserted farm tract covered
: with hroomsedge, hriars and field pine
and streaked in places with old corn
J. row ridges that stood so high YOU
: could hardly drive over them: roads
constructed like Indian trails lowest
Sin the center and NJ times almost i'm
: passahle. and little dilapidated one
room schoolhouses that were atcessi-
BILE to only a par, of the children in
the rural districts. and would have to
listen TO the tale of woe from the new
conner. who was wondering how he
could sell out and get enough money
10 take him somewhere else.
ALMOST EVERY FIELD
NOW IN CULTIVATION
< Now pause FOR a moment and turn
TO the present Behold the county with
practically every field in cultivation. and
cut-over timber land being cleared for
Z the pillow: we'll graded roads tina, lead
: to every part OF the county: up-to-date
centralized schools accessible 10 an:
!, and then listen 10 the farmer as. with
smile. he puts a price OF SlOn per
acre on his farm and adds that he
{ don't care whether h. sells or not
The day of The one horse pillow ha c
) passed, and the one-crop systom has
gone with II. In its stead lahor-savirs
and efficient farm machinery has come
TO nearly every farm where crop rora-
ton is being carried out with a view
OF increasing soil fertility and maxim &
bigger yields
One now may hear farmers talking
Of corn yields of seventy-fvc bushels
an acre and alfalfa hay at four tons
per acre, and the best OF II is they
know how IL can be made so 10 come
that II is being done. II they have not
already obtained such results, they are
going to do IL. II YOU will just give
them little more time In Other
words. demonstration tests all over the
county In corn and grass have shown
what can he done They have created
new inspiration in the farmer. and
!, he has taken hold again with renewed
vicor
MANY ALFALFA FIELDS
WILL he SOW,
Nearly eve.s-' farmer in the county
expects to COW. a field of alfalfa This
fall. lao being registered on the dem
onstra tors list ar present With the
prospects OF more forage in sight. live.
b. stock raising. the basis Of all good
farming, Is being rapidly introduced
A number of registered herd bulls OF
the best breeding have been brough,
into the county to take the \,lacc of inc