The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-13

dNrederick~~Miss Haynes:
I have received some very AMUSING
letters from the Poultry club children
of last year. The following is one Of
them, Dear agent: / had very bad
tuck Matching my chicks out of fifteen
eggs, Had but two 10 hatch---oue
rooster and one rul1et, gave the
rooster TO my mother for Christmas
dinner 1t weighed ten pounds.
don't remember ever seeing such a
large chicken. ! still have the pullet
Think lots OF her. I call her Mabel
She Is just as nice as the rooster, ]
love the poultry work"
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This week the board of superv isors
was asked for an appropriation to
continue demonstration work AT first
the appropria ton seemed rather
doubtful but was finally made by
unanimous vote. During the argu-
ment one farmer said: when the
county agent came TO my place and
began to talk about n self feeder, I
SIMPLY let Il go in one ear and out the
other for / thought | had common
sense enough TO know that no farmer
| could afford to turn hogs on self
seff-feeder. told them that they
wanted. Then to make matters worse
he told US TO buy tankage at $500 a
hundred. One rainy day / went TO the
| shop and found my boys building n
self feeder hold them that they
ought not 10 waste lumber in that
way, but they seemed to be determ-
| ined 10 try II out 80 they went on,
used the feeder and kept an accurate
| record. We now have three self-feed-
| ers and tell YOU, would part with
! my wheat binder, before I would with
my selffeeders Yes, | would return
| 10 the cradle before I would the hand
! feeding, for the binder Is only used n
! few days in the year while the feeder
I In used every day, Sunday included"
! Caroline~~R. r. Holberton:
/ At the last~eourt day began selling
/ nitrate OF soda in earnest taking ap-
| plications for II all day SO fast did the
applications come In that / had to
have an assistant 10 help take them
and answer questions we sold s5.13s
that day at an average saving OF
81 per ton, The agents are cutting
/ their prices 10 meet US IF I had not
started this move the farmers would
/ have TO pay from $1,000 10 $500
| more per ton. This is the first work
f, under the name of the county farm
| bureau
t., Goochland--Miss Davis.
! One OF my canning club girls last
fyear put up number of jars OF
! green tomato pickle to use as Christ
| mas presents. She told me yester-
| day that as result of these gifts she
had already taken some good orders
for this years pickle,
Tazewell-R r. Wall.
IA very interesting tractor demon
/ stration was held this week. The far
/ rner who agreed TO allow II on his
i farm had declared he would not
| have one OF them but after seeing the
1 work he became much interested.
| His son plowed and by the lime it
waS over they were both wanting "A
tractor and will likely get one. Two
other farmers bought tractors.
7 Fairtax--H. B. Dsrr.
During the past month the agent
has spent considerable time in work
( ing up mem bership for another COW
! testing association in this country.
'T'he worn has pfogft ssHd far enough
to warrant the sending OF one of
\ our young men TO Blacksburg TO take
the testing course II IL more likely
that the new association will be an
assured fact This viii place Fairfax
county in the lead In the East as
know of no other county with more
than one. The results are pleasing
10 every member OF the dairy assoc
cia'tlon and tie county is now widely
advertised az the home OF fine cows
4 Buyers are coming here from all over
the South.
Recently a buyer from, Florida
came TO this county 10 buy a car
! load of cows. He was very much
Il pleased with three cows In one mans
herd. which the latter was not an