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[93] _Ibid._, 201-202.

[94] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[95] _Ibid._; Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; Barger and Lansberg, _American Agriculture, 1899-1939_, 212.

[96] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[97] Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 75-76; and Derr Report, 1925, photo section.

[98] Derr Report, 1936. In 1940 there were still only 298 tractors in the county. See _Agricultural Census, 1940_.

[99] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[100] Barger and Lansberg, _American Agriculture, 1899-1939_, 221; Richard Peck was among those in the Floris vicinity who believed that the early machines "ruined" a good cow; see Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

[101] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979. The Harrisons bought their equipment quite early--around 1924; McNair, "What I Remember"; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978; J. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978; Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.

[102] Advertis.e.m.e.nts in _Herndon News-Observer_; and Holden Harrison quoted in Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[103] Author's conversation with Joseph Beard, April 25, 1979; and Sears and Roebuck catalog, 1927-1928.

[104] Inventory of property of George W. Kidwell, April 6, 1928, Fairfax County Will Book Liber 11, 343-344.

[105] McNair, "What I Remember"; and notes on conversation with Joseph Beard, April 16, 1979.

[106] Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; Congressional Record.

[107] Russell Lord, _Men of Earth_ (New York, 1931), 80.

[108] "Poultry Men Confer," _Fairfax Herald_, February 26, 1926.

[109] Virginia Agricultural Advisory Council, _A Five Year Program for the Development of Virginia's Agriculture_ (Richmond, 1923), 29; and Derr Report, 1920.

[110] Derr Report, 1926.

[111] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[112] Derr Reports, nearly every year. See, for example, 1932, 11.

[113] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[114] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

[115] Derr Report, 1932, 11.

[116] _Ibid._, 1926, 8.

[117] _Ibid._, 1925, 6.

[118] Beard/Netherton/Reid, November, 1974.

[119] _Ibid._

[120] Derr Report, 1930, 29.

[121] _Ibid._, 1936, 16; and notes following interview, Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[122] "Farm Notes" and "Scientific Feeding," January 22, 1925; and "Rid Houses and Hens of Vermin," October 21, 1926; all in _Herndon News-Observer_.

[123] _Ibid._, April 14, 1932.

[124] Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; and _The Southern Planter_, April, 1930.

[125] Statements of Holden Harrison and Joseph Beard in Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[126] "The Way Out for the Farmer," _Was.h.i.+ngton Star_, June 19, 1932; _Agricultural Census, 1925_; Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 71; "A Unique Fairfax County Farm," undated newspaper clipping (c. 1945) belonging to Mrs. Mary Scott; Elizabeth Rice to author, Wilmington, Delaware, January 30, 1979.

[127] Funk, "An Economic History of Small Farms Near Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.,"

4.

[128] Derr Report, 1935, 10. Mr. D. H. McAslan made about $500 the first year from a $143 investment.

[129] Funk, "An Economic History of Small Farms Near Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.,"

6-7; Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_; and Derr Report, 1927, 13.

[130] Description of A. S. Harrison by Holden Harrison, Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[131] "Fairfax Farmer States Facts," _Herndon News-Observer_, March 1, 1934.

[132] Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 29-30.

[133] Nan Netherton, Donald Sweig, Janice Artemel, Patricia Hickin, and Patrick Reed, _Fairfax County, Virginia: A History_ (Fairfax Virginia, 1978), 480-483.

[134] Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 26-27.

[135] "Pure Bred Bulls," _Herndon News-Observer_, May 17, 1928, 1; and Derr Report, 1926, 6.

[136] "History of the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers a.s.sociation,"

_Herndon News-Observer_, May 4, 1933.

[137] _Ibid._; and Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[138] William Edward Garnett, "Rural Organization in Relation to Rural Life in Virginia," _Virginia Agricultural Extension Station Bulletin 256_ (Blacksburg, May 1927), 11; and Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 83.

[139] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[140] Garnett, "Rural Organization in Relation to Rural Life in Virginia," and _Ibid._

[141] _Agricultural Censes, 1925, 1940._ The 1940 figures show milk production per farm in Fairfax County to be 400% above the average in the state.