Part I--Notes

Continuity

Interview with Joseph Beard by Elizabeth Pryor, Fairfax, Virginia, January 23, 1979; notes from interview with Margaret Mary Lee by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, March 28, 1978. All transcripts and notes from interviews used in this paper are deposited in the Fairfax County Library Virginiana Collection (hereafter cited "Virginiana").

Notes on interview with Elizabeth and Emma Ellmore by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, March 2, 1978.

Interview with Holden Harrison, Ray Harrison and Virginia Presgraves Harrison by Elizabeth Pryor, Chantilly, Virginia, February 5, 1979.

Notes on interview with John and Edna Middleton by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, February 24, 1978.

Interview with Joseph Beard and Holden Harrison by Elizabeth Pryor, Floris, Virginia, March 6, 1979; Wilson Day McNair, "What I Remember," unpublished manuscript, n.d., copy courtesy of Louise McNair Ryder; author's conversation with Rebecca Middleton, Floris, Virginia, April 4, 1979.

John Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978; and interview with Joseph Beard by Nan Netherton and Patrick Reed, Fairfax, Virginia, November, 1974.

Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

"Floris Producers Active," Herndon News-Observer, January 22, 1925.

Lottie Dyer Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia (Marion, Virginia, 1962), 10 and 30.

Notes on interview with Richard Peck by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, February 23, 1978; notes on interview with Virginia McFarland Greear by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, March 2, 1978; and Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia, 10.

Elizabeth Rice to author, Wilmington, Delaware, January 30, 1979.

Beard/Netherton/Reed, November, 1974; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978; Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Agricultural Census, 1925; and Federal Crop Reporting Service, Virginia Farm Statistics, 1935-1936 (Richmond, 1936).

Ibid.; and Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Lehman Nickell and Cary J. Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County (Charlottesville, 1924), 29-40; notes on interview with Neal Bailey by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, December 12, 1978; "Fairfax Farmer Threw Away His Plow in 1928 and Amazing Results Have Been Revolutionary," Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 17, 1951; and Annual Reports of County Agricultural Extension Agent H. B. Derr, 1928, 1929 and 1932, in Virginiana.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.

Ibid.; and McNair, "What I Remember."

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Derr Reports, 1928, 1932; McNair, "What I Remember"; and Joseph Beard quoted in Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Ibid.

Notes on interview with Edith Rogers by Nan Netherton, Herndon, Virginia, n.d. (c. spring, 1978).

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; Rogers/Netherton; Derr Report, 1926, 9.

Derr Report, 1925, 2.

Agricultural Census, 1925; and Derr Reports, 1921 and 1924.

"Fairfax Farmer Threw Away Plow."

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; and McNair, "What I Remember."

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Ibid.

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.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; McNair, "What I Remember."

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

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.

Elizabeth Rice to author, January 30, 1979.

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."

Rogers/Netherton; Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.

Margaret Peck quoted in Out of the Frying Pan (Herndon, Virginia, 1964), 4.

J. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978.

Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; and Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

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.

Ibid., 37.

Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Rogers/Netherton; Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978.

Juliet Corson, Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery (New York, 1886), 4; and Adeline Goessling, The Farm and Home Cook Book (Chicago, 1919).

Frances Darlington Simpson, Virginia Country Life and Cooking (Washington, D.C., 1963).

Virginia Polytechnical Institute, The Housing of Virginia's Rural Folk (Blacksburg, 1940), 26.

Rebecca Middleton quoted in Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia, 30.

Derr Reports, 1926, 1927; nearly all interviews collaborated this information, see especially Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978; McNair, "What I Remember."

Unidentified 1930s farmer quoted in Kolb and Brunner, A Study of Rural Society, 33.

Ibid.; Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

VPI, Housing, 26.

Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978.

Ibid.; Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Edwin W. Beitzell, Life on the Potomac River (Abell, Maryland, 1968), 130.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978.

Ibid.

Schneider, Memoirs of Herndon, Virginia, 31.

Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978; and W. C. Funk, "An Economic Study of Small Farms Near Washington, 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.

Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Ibid.

Ibid.; and William Edward Garnett and John W. Ellison, "Negro Life in Rural Virginia, 1865-1934," Virginia Polytechnical Institute Bulletin 295, June, 1934.

Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; and Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.

Dana Gumb, "Pioneer Recalls McLean," Echoes of History, (March and May, 1972), 28.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; and Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Garnett and Ellison, "Negro Life in Rural Virginia," 13.

Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Lee/Netherton, March 28, 1978.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.

Ellmore/Netherton, March 2, 1978; interview with Edith Rogers by Patty Corbat, Craig Smith and Phyllis Hirshman, June 12, 1970.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979; Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979.

Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.

Rogers/Corbat, et al., June 12, 1970.

Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County, 75-76; and Agricultural Census, 1925. Nickell gives a 13% tenancy and lists 175 out of 304 tenants to be working on a cash-tenant basis. The Agricultural Census for 1940 also shows a 10% tenancy figure.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979. For a grim but revealing view of what tenancy could mean during this period, see James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, (New York, 1960).

Harold Barger and Hans M. Lansburg, American Agriculture 1899-1939 (New York, 1975), 212; and Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.