The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-01-09
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STATE NEWS

Sheep grown in Pocahontas county
IN 1915 had a total valuation Of more
than $4,000. The total number raised
was 24,500 at an average value of four
dollars a head. The average value OF
sheep in the entire state is 1896 a
head. The highest valuation Is in Raj.
nigh county, where the average is
$500 head.
Some citizens of Boone, Logan and
Wyoming counties are asking that the
1917 Legislature change the county
boundary lines affecting portions OF
each OF these counties. II is the claim
OF these citizens that they live in COM
munities remote from the seat of their
respective county governments, and
that by making certain boundary
changes all would be conveniently near
q county seat. A change in the Raj.
eigh county boundary next to the
Boone line would be satisfactory to the
Boone county citizens who are affect.
ed, but so far as known Raleigh does
not care to have any changes made.
AS was to have been expected the
present spell OF mild weather has made
Old Mother Nature uneasy. The other
day the Moundsville Echo printed the
following: "A real live toad was
found on the surface of the ground at
the Smelter works Thursday after.
noon by Jesse Warner and his men,
while they were building forms. The
toad was brought to the Echo office by
y ID. Berisford who then took 1t home.
All but small percentage of the
persons whose homes. were washed
away in the Cabin Creek and Goa!
river floor have returned and are
now comfortably quartered in houses
more safely located out of reach of
swollen streams according to Josiah
Il, Keely, of Kayford, who was named
IS president of the West Virginia Coal
Mining Institute recently.
The Chenille Democrat is response.
bic for the following: mir. Ida
Jones' Of Stewards creek, one of the
live, progressive farmers of the coun-
~ was in the city Monday A few days
before Mr.. Jones butchered what was
perhaps the largest porker ever raised
in the county. He measured 6 geet 1C
inches round, and was feet long. He
was strung up by horse power with
block and tackle. This animal was of
The Ole. breed, and while he was not
weighed, Mr.. Jones and his neighbors
estimated his weight at a LOCO pounds.
He yielded IA gallons OF sausage and
"A gallons OF lard"
According to the Weston newspa.
pers. Frank Miller. farmer at the state
hospital in that place made splen-
did showing late yesterday on the P. X.
Teter farm on Smith run which the
state has rented. The cropping results
are given as follows: Potatoes, 1000
bushels; beans, $50 bushels; turnips,
so bushels; radishes, 200 0ozen; let.
tuce. 300 pounds; peas, 10 bushels;
cucumbers, 542 dozen; sugar corn, S25
dozen; tomatoes, 20 bushels: cabbage,
1855 pounds; onions, 225 dozen; ear
corn, 1900 bushels; so tons on ensil.
age. On a portion Of the R. H Harri.
son farm 1900 bushels of ear corr
was also raised. Mr.. Miller has done
much toward making the state hospital
self sustaining one"
Messrs. J. P. Skaggs & Son. of Elm.
hurst, Monroe county, have butchered
a Duroc-Jersey hog two years and ten
months old that weighed net six hun.
dred and sixty poln.:s. For two years
this big porker was the head OF the
herd of Messrs. Skaggs & Son. They
couldn't get his gross weight because
no scales OF sufficient capacity were
available.
The apple growers OF Berkeley coun-
" are figuring up just how much of
that million or more dollars the 1916
apple crop OF the county came into
their pockets. According to the best
authorities the 1916 crop is estimated
Mt $4,000 barrels, 100000 or more OF
these were fancy fruit. The average
price per barrel was little better thar:
$3.50. All the growers made money
last year as the large increase In the
bank deposits in Marttnsburg show
that II was remarkably prosperous
season. The profits last season were
50 good that many Of the orchards com
panies and individual growers were
able to cancel heavy Indebtedness they
had been carrying for a number OF
years, leaving many of them entirei,
free of debt. Nearly all Of the orchart
companies have declared the yearly
dividends, some of them going as high
as IS per cent. This Is evidence that
apple growing In Berkeley county is
a profitable industry. Thousands OF
young apple trees viii be set out in
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