Section 7, 3.

Nickell and Randolph, An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County, 53; and Agricultural Censes, 1925 and 1940. The figures are 21.9% mortgaged in 1924, 28.4% in 1925 and 30.25% in 1940.

J. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978.

Derr Report, 1925, 8.

Derr Report, 1921, 1.

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Proceedings of Long Range Study Committee I-III, November 1967-March 1968, (Washington, D.C., 1969); and Rural Electric Fact Book (Washington, D.C., 1960).

Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

Beard/Netherton/Reed, November, 1974.

See Ibid., Derr Reports, 1926 and 1928; and Schaefer, The Social History of American Agriculture, 162.

Virginia Agricultural Advisory Council, A Five Year Program for Development of Virginia Agriculture (Richmond, 1923), 17; and Fairfax County Land Record Books, 1930-1931, in Virginiana.

"Tax Rate," editorial in Fairfax Herald, April 23, 1926.

Hawkes, "Harry Flood Byrd," 281.

Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

Editorial in Fairfax Herald, September 6, 1935.