Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
RY F.. VI. HI NTER.
County Agent. LOudOun County, Na.

County Agent. LOudOun County. Va.
Meadow Brook Loudoun county. is
the home of william T Smith. Mrs.
Smith and their four chi!dren-Re-
hccca. Edward Eleanor and Esther.
All the family share alike in work
and play. The children have their
chores. Rebecca and Edward bringing
in the cows and helping with the milk
ing The children also have their in
dividuaI projects and ownership. Re
becca has her hens and their broods.
while Edward owns the best heifer
on the farm. The smaller children
will each take their place in the
scheme of work and play as they
grow up.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith are congenfal
business mates, and Mr., Smith says
his wife is the chief factor in the
prosperity of Meadow Brook. Each
works with the cordial sympathy and
understanding of the other in the
common plan. improvements and la
Dor saving devices in the house and
on the farm keep step pretty well. Mr..
Smith bought a truck. Mrs. Smith got
a gas stove and a steam Gamer for
the summer kitchen. These years of
high prices have helped the farm
family TO get along in a substantial
way because everybody works.
Meadow Brook is situated on good
road three miles from the town of
Purcellville. The fact that the farm
is situated near the center of Lou
doun county does not make it what it
is. Meadow Brook would be Meadow
Brook wherever the Smith family
might have founded it II is first the
plan and secondly the industry with
which the plan is being carried out
that is putting this farm on the map
as model to enterprising farmers
Shows Reading by Mr.. Smith.
The farm plan is more than a blue
print. The buildings are plain but
substantial. There is no finished APP
pearance about the place as though
the inhabitants had reached a stage
of leisure. The impression the visitor
gets of the farmStead is that of pro-
ductiveness and substantial prosperity.
More than any farm l know of
Meadow Brook is a concrete example
of what its owner has read. For many
years Mr.. Smith has been a close
reader. William T. Smith has been
known as William Terry" Smith
among his neighbors because of his
close adherence to the farm pYac-
tees of the late 7. b. Terry. Mr.. Ter
ry was for many years a leading con-
tributor to farm journals and prac-
ticed on his fifty-acre farm at Akron.
Ohio. what he taught.
Mr.. Smith has the faculty of digest
ing what he reads and reducing such
ideas are worthy of application to
concrete form on his farm. His crop
ping plan he frankly ascribes to Mr..
Terry. Meadow Brook has only 165
acres. Besides garden and grounds,
the farm is divided in four fields and
a wood lot. The rotation is as simple
as A b G, and nobody has ever made
a better--corn. wheat. clover. Each
year sees thirty acres in corn. thirty
acres in wheat. thirty acres in clover,
and thirty dairy cows grazing in the
same sixty acres of blue grass pas
ture. All four fields open close to the
barns, and each year sees the NOV
filled with new mown clover hay, the
yards ricked with plenty of straw and
cribs and bins filled with grain. Be
sides grain for bread and corn for
feeding, much grain is hauled away to
market.
once visited Meadow Brook in COM
pany with an investigator in farm
management from the State College of
Agriculture. After reasonable assur-
ance that we were not seeking infor-
nation under false pretenses. Mr..
Smith opened his farm record and dis
closed every detail of the farming
business. When the investigator had
carefully analysed the accounts he was
surprised at the net results. He was
puzzled and seemed to be doubling the
figures. when a smile broke over his
face and he said: Il see. l see. 1t is
in the yields. the high average yields.
Thirty acres, seventy-five bushels of