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Weekly .... FARM PRICE OUTLOOK I ___ J This is the way prospects for Virginia farm prices looked lo the Virginia Department ol Agriculture on Friday. The De partment offers it to .armers with thq warning that no one can predict prices and he right all the time.

Hogs Hoc prices ar>- probably in an adjustment period right now. just before starting the upgrade which should reach a peak in June We lock for a week or so of fluctuations as price reacts to daily and w; ekly receipts. But supplies are about ready to start m the summer decline, and the longer you can hold on to hogs without getting into the overweight discounts, the better off you should

be. Don't go the other way, either, marketing at too light weights Pre ferred range is 180 to 220 pounds. Prices last week were Virginia auctions. 10 cents lower at $17.90 top: Richmond yards, up 50 cents, $18.25 to $18.75: Baltimore, 75 cents to $1 higher at $19-$19.25: and Wes tern markets generally 50 cents higher at $18.25 to $18.75. Last year the Baltimore April average was about $16. Virginia

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auctions $15.50 top By the end of ..May. the price had moved up to ■i$]8 .29 and stayed about there the first half of June. - Wool It looks kke the wool market this year will be comparatively good. Demand outlook is brightened some by a two per cent drop in wool production last year, plus a two per cent drop in sheep produc tion this year. The weekly review of the Boston market on Friday showed country buyers of fleece wool paying mostly 50 cents on a grease basis. A rule to remember: when you sell wool, save the receipt showing poundage, price and buyer's signa ture. And. the more you get paid, the more yotir incentive payment will be For information, check with your ASC office. Lamb Lamb prices are now showing the ; usual pre-Easter gains, and ought to continue to strengthen on into May. Keep in mind that May usu ally brines the price peak. In Winchester last week, one 98 pound average lot brought $25.50; choice grade averaged $25.60. In Chicago, good and choice. 82 to 93 pounds were $24 to $26. Prices have been improving for the past month, and at the end of March midwest markets were about $4 better than the same week last | year. Retail demand is good, helped along by promotions, and one per .cent fewer early lambs in the U.S i adds a strengthening note State graded spring lamb sales | are set for Richmond and Winches ter on April 15. Again a warning: keep slaughter lamb receipts so you can get your incentive payments. Turkeys If you have breeder hens you are moving out. do it in the next ten ‘ days. Just before Easter is historically a bright spot in the spring turkey market. At least the after-Easter price doesn’t hold much hope for outdoing the pre-Easter one. One ' lot of Beltsville breeder hens sold

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Muddy Creek Church, Once Scene Of Lee's Worship, May Be Torn Down

By MRS. GRACE WRIGHT One of the area's oldest churches aces possible destruction as the result of a woman's will. Muddy Creek Baptist church at rrenholm. now in its 184th year, vill be remodeled or torn down and another built. Church members will decide the fate of the historic building. The church will receive $26,561 19. left by Miss Eva Bentle Palmore, of Richmond, who died July 19. 1955. at the age of 84, The will stated that the bulk of her estate would be placed in trust for the i benefit of Muddy Creek Baptist church. It also stated that, "if there shall be at any time in the future no! Baptist church, or any church formed partly from its member ship occupying substantially t h e ; same location then this trust shall | ease and the principal of this fund 1 shall be paid to the trustees of the Virginia Baptist Home for the Aged j at Culpeper. If my Executor, The Virginia Trust Co., and the Trustees | and members of the church decide j my estate is too small to form a trust fund, they can give the money to the church.” Miss Palmore Born in Powhatan Miss Palmore, who left the money to the church, was born at Pleasant j Oaks in Powhatan county, now the ‘ home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson C. | ^alimre. Muddy Creek church was built in ’774 with bricks made where the ! "hurch now stands. In 1938, a new slate roof was put ! n the chuch and new Sunday school rooms added The sla’e roof j '''as too heavy for the church, and I ’aused the walls to sac. The two j 'aller'es wore taken out of the church in 1938. —-j

j in the Valley last week brought 27' ! cents. Broilers We don’t see any strength coming :'ip any time soon in broiler prices. By the first of May. Virginia markets might feel the effect of a : slight drop off in supply, but you can’t bank too much on it. U. S. supply will keep on up until mid-April ease off slightly, and then head upward again. If con sumption m o v e s up seasonally, prices might react accordingly in . the little slack-off period in the last half of April Virginia supply is declining, and by May should be around 13 per cent below last year. Prices last week were the Valley a cent lower at 19 cents; Delmarva a cent lower at 20 cents and North Carolina and Georgia unchanged at 19 cents. April 1 broiler numbers in Vir ginia showed 12.3 million against 11.6 million last year, or seven per :cent more.

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For its first 10 years, it didn't have a pastor, then in 1784. Samuel Woodfin was elected. He served for nearly 50 years. By 1800. the church numbered 300 members the colored members included. Elder Woodfin died January 13. 1832 and was suc ceeded by Edward, Baptist wh served until 1835. when be moved to Alabama. Witt Took Over In February, 1837, Jesse Witt be came pastor. In 1844 be resigned to become agent of the general as sociation. and in the fall of the same year. C Tyree was chosen as his successor. Elder Tyree's pas torate continued until 1867, with in terruption from April, 1856 to April, 1857, T E. Reynolds: 1862. no pastor, and 1863. A B Woodfin In 1868. . R Bacby was pastor Bagbv began his min'stry at Muddy Creek chuich soon after the close of the War Between the States. He was lieutenant in the Powahtan ai ■ tillery, composed largely of men from the community. At that time. General Robert E Bee lived near this church at Der went. a home lent to him by his friend Captam William Cocke, a one-time wealthy land owner in Cumberland county across the creek. He often attended services at Muddv Creek church. The Negro 'laves also attended, and many of them were church members Bagbv Paralyzed

In January. 1913. while f ilms a -egular appointment at Sandy Creek Baptist church in Amelia county Dr. Bagbv was stricken with paraly sis. thus ending a lone career. H llved for two years, during which time Rev. St. George Abrahams supplied a short while until a pastor cuold be located In 1914. Rev .T R. Taylor, ot North Carolina be came minister. Hr resigned in I f Rev J. Sidney Cobb followed a. most immediately, and served tv - years and nine months before 1. resigned in 1925. A Mr Tra inhatn served from 1925 to 1930. and Rev T. E Goad from 1930 to 1935. In 1936. Rev. J S. Cobb was called again and hr accepted He served until 1944 Dr George R. Swam; supplied until September. 1945 Tin a student mobster at the Univrsvy of Richmond. Rev Zanc Grey R preached for nine months. Gatling Becomes Minister In 1946. Rev C L. Gatling of t! University of Richmond and Ha:: - ton. became minister. After tin resignation of Reverent Gatling in 1949. Rev. Harry Long, of Rich mond. preached regularly as sup

ply pastor fory three and a half ear; Rev Ce< ..... Carolina, becauu min; tor in mil and remained until his resi-muPOR m March. 1954. Rev. . Kenneth Clark, also of North Carolina, lie^ came minister in August, i954 and is still serving.

The present deacons of Muddy Creek church are Brownie W. Wil burn. Randolph Swann. Woodfin Swann, Montelle Cole Be r kle y Cosby. Jr., and H. O. Williams. The Bi W Wilburn. Randolph Swanh and Woodfin Swann.

Nine Presidents were Episcopal ian- six were Presbyterians, four were Methodists, four were Uni tarians. two were Baptists, two were Reformed Dutch, and one each were Friends Congregationalist and Dis ,'iples of Christ.

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