The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-07-06
Hogs For Bacon, Hogs For Meat,
POwhatan Farm
Identified AS
Mystery Farm

. acre farm as general farming op-
GRAFTON with the emphasis on hogs.
] Since 1913 he has specialized in
hog breeding stock. The REVIVAL
line. fer that is Walton's brand
name. is knone in Is states from
Maine to Texas.
The REVIVAL farm, known to
some Of the older citizens as Sum
merset" is located on Highway SO
four miles north of Ballsville. and
about nine miles east of Cumber-
land.
The farmhouse has a new home
look" that bellies its 200 year old
history. With hand-hewn logs in the
basement. it is Understandable that
this is one of the first homes built
In PoWhatan County Naturally. con-
siderable modernization has been
done.
Walton and his wife. the former
Miss Rosa Lee Scott. moved here
shortly after their marriage in
1912. He has been working the farm
full time since then except for a
three year period in which he work
ed for the Beacon Feed Co.
Built Farm Supply
Walton built farm supply store
on a corner of his property fronting
Route 80 and operated it as the
REVIVAL Farm Supply for several
years. before selling it to the Bea-
con Company. 1t is operated now
by George Jefferies as the Powha-
tan Feed Service
When Walton first started operat-
ing his farm. it had only about %
acres of open land Now he has
otcr 80 aces cleared
Walton has herd Of so Hereford
cattle. and has recently d d j
about dozen Brown Swiss to his
beef operation Il may sell the
E-retords soon, Walton advised.
"On the other hand. l intend to in
crease my Brown Swiss herd" he
added.
Walton. OF course. keeps both
ines pure ty running The two herds
in different pastures, etc. Its
funny thing he noted. different
strains dor, care much about mix
ing together anyway. so it is Just
as easy to keep them separate
Water is an important item to the
Powhatan farm. But it is not ma
jor problem. Just down the hill from
the farmhol Sc there is a spring site
that is said to contain seven separ-
ate SPRINGS. Also several small
creeks run through the property
Walton is not raising broilers this
year as he has done in the past, He
generally raised as many as 10000
broilers a year, with 5000 in each
flock. However. the farm does have
1000 layers, and the eggs are sold
to Clay's hatchery in Blackstone
One Family Farm
IGti'lWal Idl III Is Opci dlCQ dS
oneman lot, or better yet as one
family Job With four boys and a
girl the Waltons have a lot of help
for almost all Jobs
Eugene M. Walton. III. is the old
est. 10. closely followed by Scotty
10. Lucy Ann. 9. and the young
sters, Donald Lee 4. and Dickie. 3.
Gene likes the livestock and feeds
! the hogs, calves. etc. as we'll as
/ taking an interest iE the machinery
Scottv handles the layers. and 9TH
err odd jobs. while Lucy Ann helps
her mother They attend Powhatan
High School where they are inter
ested in The high school band,
anon! other school and farm prof.
ectS.
Extra helr is hired only for large
jobs like cutting hay. cleaning the
brooder house. etc.
Emphasis on Hogs
This year Walton added Yorkshire
AMI Landrace breeds to his h 0 G
herds. They are a bacon type hog
TO go with his meat hogs. the Hamp-
shires.
TIE hefty, sun-tanned farmer has
his breeding stock registered with
them American Swine Association He
obtained his boars from hte mid