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Identifier: handbookofvirgin06virg (find matches)
Title: A hand book of Virginia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration Koiner, George W. (George Wellington), 1852-1939
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Publisher: Richmond, Everett Waddey Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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have been made upon it. When Mr. Belding took possession of the property about 15years ago he was without means and, during the first year on theplace, was forced to hire out for a part of the time to paycurrent expenses. - At that time there were no buildings of valueon the place, and the owner could provide but little personalproperty. Since then the following buildings have been erected:An excellent and convenient house; A large barn, well arrangedfor stock, grain, and hay (the hay is handled with machinery,and the barn is provided with one of the best equipped work shopsI have ever seen on a farm); two good silos, one made of cementblocks; a good potato cellar with a two-story granary above it(a home-made elevator runs from cellar to third floor), a goodtool shed, automobile house, corn crib, well curbed with cementblocks, wood house, and large cold frame. The fact that the owner not only planned all these buildingsbut also did a large part of the work of constructing them add to
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11 ones interest as he visits the place. It should be rememberedthat every dollar of the cost of these buildings, as well as of thefollowing machinery, was produced on the little farm: ensilagecutter; 5-horse-power gasoline engine; small threshing machine;hay baler; reaper; mower; riding sulky with ball coupling; acmeriding harrow; potato planter; cream separator; sulky plow;buggy; automobile; and other implements too numerous to men-tion. One of the most productive fields on this little farm is a smallpiece of alfalfa which was cut four times during the past year,the cuts averaging one and a half tons, or a total of six tons,per acre. By using plenty of barnyard manure, cultivating wellat the time, and selecting the seed according to the most approvedmethods the corn crop on the farm seldom yields less than 100bushels per acre, and it has gone as high as 150 bushels. The cultivation of a five-acre field best illustrates Mr. Beldingsfavorite rotation of crops. During the first part of

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