Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-03-10
MIR. LINKOuS TELL OF FARM
ING IN MARYLAND.
Whiteford, Ma, Feb 2
Editor of Clinch Valley News:

that | would like to write to YOU,
readers once mere through your pa.
per. l wish to say to you, one AMI
all, that have not forgotten you
nor do / expect too while I live.
am in MICS farming country am
having so much to do and SO MANY
things to look after have very lit.
tie time to write. l do not Know
whether or not you, ever think O,
me, but think of you and very Of
ssn, too.
Well, perhaps some of you NAV
want to know something about m.
and perhaps more about the coun-
try. And l wish to say, that this is
nice country to live in, not level.
of course, but more so than Taz ;
we'll county. We have plenty of h..ls
here but not high. and most of Iam
are flat on top making nice farm
ing ground. Sandy did you saw.
when | was in Tazewell last sum.
mer? Someone asked me if we didn't
have to dope the land here. / told
them that we used about 125 pounds
OF fertilizer on our corn and he said
he used 800 pounds. and 500 hun.
dred was better. Well, maybe YOU
want to know if VIZ raise any,,ho,
out here. should smile! Last sun, :.
mer we had "a acres in corn. which
made US almost two thousand bush
els of shelled corn, and one man. -
team and riding corn worker did
the work after it was ready TO plant
all except thinning. We have Just.
shipped car load of hay and have
enough for two more cars, baieo.
ready for shipment. We make ~.
tons to the acre. We have made All
high as thirty bushels of wheat and
fifty bushels of oats to the acre,
and we do not claim to be the .es,
farmers here, either. but do claim:
to have as good farming lana as
most anybody around here. Our
fields all lay nicely. We can run any
kind of machinery over every foot
of our cultivating land, and nearly
all the pasture and woodland, also.
We have most all kinds of ma. min
very used in this country, such as
binders, moving machines, hayload-
ers, wheat drills, gasoline engines,
feed grinders. fodder cutters, etc.
We also have n milking machine.
which milks twenty one or two COWS
FOR us. We have nearly three hun
drcd acres of land, have four dwcu.
ing houses. three large barns and
plenty of outbuildings Have eight
horses, forty-four head of cattle,
seven pure-bred pigs, six of Then,
sows ready now. for narrowing. We
have five or six hundred hens. Ev..
erything is nicely sheltered and look.
good, SO you don't wonder that !;
haven't much time to write, do You :
Please, dear friends. do not think
l am trying to boast, for am not
AS everybody who kenw me knows
that my means were limited when [
came here, and now l think we nave
two as nice places as there az III
the country, and as nice stuff on,
them, but we are not as lucky rs
some of our neighbors, who have
farmed all their lives and ar. ..or
only out of debt but have nice.
substantial bank account, besides,
and | therefore have no reason for
Boosting, but all the same think
this is one of the best farmin..
countries ever saw. We can raise
anything almost that grows any
where-corn, wheat, hay, oats, to
matoes,t sweet corn, cabbage, pota-
toes, onions, melons, all are raised IN
felds, also beans and all kinds of
garden vegetables. When the sun is
coming down hot in spring and sum.
mer you can almost see everyrn,u..
growing.
AS to climate. / think there !,
very little difference in the climate
there and here. 1t may be q little
colder here and not so chaneeable
as the ground sometimes freezes
here and stays frozen all winter.
thus becoming dry making the roads
dusty as summertime. We have n
goa rohd system, ten months school
with free books for all. Two wears
ago l took the census and nor y
single child did I find that was old
enough that could not read or write
There is a splendid market hero
for all products, and poultry ,,.s
well hf're. We have been seltino
fifteen or sixteen hundred dollars
worth of poultry and eggs and twice
as much milk year. Milk is a great
source of income for the farmer m
sumnar time it is very common
sight to see herd of fifteen o,
twenty cows standing in the shade
or grazing on the green pastures ..
meadows, as everybody calls then
here. l want to tell you how ode
some things are here. The low land.
are oil pastured, the uplands cult.
vatevd. No ono ever turns over in :
buggy or wagon. They always "up
set" They call a thunder storm {
"gust." The boys never go to se,
their girls in day time, always a