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[28] Derr Report, 1925, 2.
[29] _Agricultural Census, 1925_; and Derr Reports, 1921 and 1924.
[30] "Fairfax Farmer Threw Away Plow."
[31] Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; and McNair, "What I Remember."
[32] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[33] _Ibid._
[34] Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; notes on interview with Joseph Beard by Elizabeth Pryor, Fairfax, Virginia, February 27, 1979; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[35] Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; McNair, "What I Remember."
[36] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 8, 1979.
[37] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978; Elizabeth Rice to Mary Scott, n.d. (c. fall, 1978), copy courtesy of Mary Scott.
[38] Elizabeth Rice to author, January 30, 1979.
[39] 4-H Record Books, copy in Annual Report of County Agricultural Extension Agent; Derr Report, 1927; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; and McNair, "What I Remember."
[40] Rogers/Netherton; Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978.
[41] Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.
[42] Margaret Peck quoted in _Out of the Frying Pan_ (Herndon, Virginia, 1964), 4.
[43] J. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978.
[44] Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; and Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.
[45] See _Hills Southern Almanac_, (Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 1929); J. H. Kolb and Edmund S. de Brunner, _A Study of Rural Society_ (Boston, 1935), 36-37.
[46] _Ibid._, 37.
[47] Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.
[48] Rogers/Netherton; Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978.
[49] Juliet Corson, _Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery_ (New York, 1886), 4; and Adeline Goessling, _The Farm and Home Cook Book_ (Chicago, 1919).
[50] Frances Darlington Simpson, _Virginia Country Life and Cooking_ (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., 1963).
[51] Virginia Polytechnical Inst.i.tute, _The Housing of Virginia's Rural Folk_ (Blacksburg, 1940), 26.
[52] Rebecca Middleton quoted in Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.
[53] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.
[54] Schneider, _Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia_, 30.
[55] Derr Reports, 1926, 1927; nearly all interviews collaborated this information, see especially Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.
[56] Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978; McNair, "What I Remember."
[57] Unidentified 1930s farmer quoted in Kolb and Brunner, _A Study of Rural Society_, 33.
[58] _Ibid._; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.
[59] VPI, _Housing_, 26.
[60] Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978.
[61] _Ibid._; Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.
[62] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.
[63] Edwin W. Beitzell, _Life on the Potomac River_ (Abell, Maryland, 1968), 130.
[64] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.
[65] Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978.
[66] _Ibid._
[67] Schneider, _Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia_, 31.
[68] Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978; and W. C. Funk, "An Economic Study of Small Farms Near Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.," _United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin 848_, June 22, 1920. This study concludes that the farmer with thirty or more acres spent 38% of his revenue for labor, as compared with 10% for feed, 11% for marketing and 3% for insurance and taxes. See Table IV of this study for a complete breakdown.
[69] Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978.
[70] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[71] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.
[72] _Ibid._
[73] _Ibid._; and William Edward Garnett and John W. Ellison, "Negro Life in Rural Virginia, 1865-1934," _Virginia Polytechnical Inst.i.tute Bulletin 295_, June, 1934.
[74] Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; and Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.
[75] Dana Gumb, "Pioneer Recalls McLean," _Echoes of History_, (March and May, 1972), 28.
[76] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.
[77] Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; and Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.
