Part Ii--Notes

Change

Barger and Lansberg, American Agriculture, 1899-1939, 212.

Ibid., 201-202.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Ibid.; Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; Barger and Lansberg, American Agriculture, 1899-1939, 212.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County, 75-76; and Derr Report, 1925, photo section.

Derr Report, 1936. In 1940 there were still only 298 tractors in the county. See Agricultural Census, 1940.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

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.

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.

Advertisements in Herndon News-Observer; and Holden Harrison quoted in Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

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

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

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

Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; Congressional Record.

Russell Lord, Men of Earth (New York, 1931), 80.

"Poultry Men Confer," Fairfax Herald, February 26, 1926.

Virginia Agricultural Advisory Council, A Five Year Program for the Development of Virginia's Agriculture (Richmond, 1923), 29; and Derr Report, 1920.

Derr Report, 1926.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

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

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

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

Derr Report, 1932, 11.

Ibid., 1926, 8.

Ibid., 1925, 6.

Beard/Netherton/Reid, November, 1974.

Ibid.

Derr Report, 1930, 29.

Ibid., 1936, 16; and notes following interview, Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

"Farm Notes" and "Scientific Feeding," January 22, 1925; and "Rid Houses and Hens of Vermin," October 21, 1926; all in Herndon News-Observer.

Ibid., April 14, 1932.

Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; and The Southern Planter, April, 1930.

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

"The Way Out for the Farmer," Washington 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.

Funk, "An Economic History of Small Farms Near Washington, D.C.," 4.

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

Funk, "An Economic History of Small Farms Near Washington, D.C.," 6-7; Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County; and Derr Report, 1927, 13.

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

"Fairfax Farmer States Facts," Herndon News-Observer, March 1, 1934.

Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County, 29-30.

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

Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County, 26-27.

"Pure Bred Bulls," Herndon News-Observer, May 17, 1928, 1; and Derr Report, 1926, 6.

"History of the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association," Herndon News-Observer, May 4, 1933.

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

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.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Garnett, "Rural Organization in Relation to Rural Life in Virginia," and Ibid.

Agricultural Censes, 1925, 1940. The 1940 figures show milk production per farm in Fairfax County to be 400% above the average in the state.

Derr Report, 1937; and "State Dairy Herd Improvement Association," Herndon News-Observer, August 8, 1935.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

"Fairfax Farmer Threw Away His Plow in 1928 and Amazing Results Have Been Revolutionary," Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 17, 1951.

Oliver Martin, On and Off the Concrete in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia (Washington, 1930), 26.

Derr Reports, 1926, 6, and 1927, 13.

Milk prices dropped from $4.05 per 100 gallons in 1920 to a low of $2.10 in 1932. By 1935 they were still low, but had risen some to $2.25. The prices given are July figures; January listings were generally a bit higher. See Virginia Farm Statistics (Richmond, 1936), 59.

Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.

H. B. Derr, "Helping Farmers," Herndon News-Observer, April 14, 1932; and Derr Report, 1927, 13.

Derr, "Helping Farmers."

Derr Report, 1932, 5.

Derr Report, 1926, 6.

Derr Report, 1932, 6.

McNair, "What I Remember"; and 16th Census of the United States, 1940, Agriculture--Volume I, Statistics for Counties (Washington, 1942).

C. T. Rice Herd Record Books, 1923-1937, in possession of Mrs. Mary Scott.

Derr and Beard Reports, nearly every year, see especially 1926, 1932.