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Tlie year 1952 rail lo extremes for the Virginia farmer, the aver- j age at the center probably sliav- ' ing 10 cents from each dollar of net income, the Stall Department of Agriculture figures. Virginia’s traditional diversit> brought di verse fortune to individual farms, bui saved the overall agricultural economy. On meat animal... the fair haired children of Southern agri culture. farmers took their first shellacing since the war. Poultry forged ahead to become the num ber one source of income, but turkey growers, who have doubled their bird numbers twice in three years, took a beating from the law of supply and demand. Cash crops recovered remark ably or beliefitted in price from a summer drought anci racked up a 5 per cent increase in total

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