Part Iii--Notes

Professionalization and an Increased Standard of Living

Thomas A. Bailey, The American Pageant (Boston, D. C. Heath, 1966), 416.

United States Congressional Record, 1914, 1916, 1917.

Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979.

Kolb and Brunner, A Study of Rural Society, 424.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; McNair, "What I Remember" and "Fred Curtice, Fairfax Dairy Farmer," Washington Post, October 24, 1978.

"Poultry School at Fairfax," February 16, 1933; and "Two Day Poultry School a Success," March 2, 1933, both in Herndon News-Observer.

Advertisement in Herndon News-Observer, June 4, 1925.

Beard/Netherton/Reed, November, 1974.

Derr Report, 1925, 14; and 1937 Report.

Minutes of Meetings, Farmer's Club #1, Herndon, Virginia, October 1, 1909 to January 13, 1935, copy courtesy of Rebecca Middleton.

"Dairymen to Meet," Fairfax Herald, August 30, 1935; "Floris Producers Active," Herndon News-Observer, January 22, 1925; Derr Report, 1927; for an outstanding example of a contract such as the one described, see contract between Burden S. Athey and Windsor Lodge Farm, Huntley, Virginia, May 31, 1933, in possession of Mrs. Mary Scott.

Lucy Blake Report, 1938, 7.

See all of the annual reports of home demonstration agents, especially Sarah E. Thomas Reports, 1933 and 1934; and Lucy Steptoe Report, 1936.

For 4-H Club activity, see annual reports of home demonstration agents; and "The Short Course," Fairfax Herald, July 16, 1926.

Derr Report, 1926.

"Floris 'Aggies' Organize," Herndon News-Observer, January 13, 1926 (sic, 1927); and Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

"Influence of Club Members," Herndon News-Observer.

Muriel Wheeler, 4-H Record Book, Herndon Club, 1933, in 4-H Record File, in Virginiana.

15th Census of the United States, Agricultural Summary, 1930; Kolb and Brunner, A Study of Rural Society, 387; and advertisement in Herndon News-Observer, March 26, 1925.

Derr Report, 1935, 13; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; and Rita Shug, "The Town of Herndon," unpublished monograph, George Mason University, May, 1973, 8.

Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

VPI, Housing, 26.

Ibid., 14 and 26; "Farm Home Water Supply for Fairfax County," Herndon News-Observer, June 23, 1932; and Netherton, et al., Fairfax County, 519.

Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Historic Progressive Fairfax County in Old Virginia (Alexandria, 1928), 35; Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978; and interview with Emma Millard, by Dana Gumb, November 15, 1972.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Minutes of Farmer's Club #1; and Resolution of Farmer's Club #14, n.d., copy found in Minutes of Farmer's Club #1.

Derr Report, 1925, 14.

Publicity Committee of Herndon Chamber of Commerce, "Facts Regarding Bond Issue Every Voter Should Know," 1924, copy courtesy of Holden Harrison; Robert T. Hawkes, Jr., "The Emergence of a Leader: Harry Flood Byrd, Governor of Virginia, 1926-1930," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, LXXXII, July 1, 1974, 281; Historic Progressive Fairfax County, 35.

Agnes Rothery, Virginia: The New Dominion (New York, 1940), 124-25.

Derr Report, 1925.

Lucy Blake Report, 1937, 7.

"Improved Highways are Big Aid to the Farmer," Herndon News-Observer, December 30, 1926.

McNair, "What I Remember."

"A Unique Fairfax County Farm."

"Cows Like Machines," Herndon News-Observer, April 28, 1932.

Report of the Commission to Study the Condition of the Farmers of Virginia to the General Assembly of Virginia (Richmond, 1930), 35; and Lord, Men of Earth, 147.

Jere Rusk quoted in Joseph Schafer, The Social History of American Agriculture (New York, 1936), 159. This book also contains an excellent summary of the problems mechanization produced for the small farmer.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

"The Way Out for the Farmer," Washington Star, June 19, 1932,