Frying Pan Farm - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
[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.
