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-Miss Lucy Catherine Bowie, editor of Rappahannock News," appeared before the board in be* half of a unified telephone system throughout the county which wduld abolish the (toll charges now (being billed on calls made to and from the various districts of the county. A motion of approval was made by W. C. Campbell, seconded by J. P. Cook, and unanimously passed by the board. Resolutions were requested to be made concerning the matter and copies to be sent to the Rappahannock News, the C A P Telephone Company, the Virginia Telephone and Telegraph Company, and also to State Senator . Raymond Guestr and Representative - D. - Preach? Blaughte»Jv.
Several representatives from the Flint Hill district appeared . before the board and requested that a secondary road, about Simile long, be located in the Chester Gap area. The board appointed a committee of viewers tp locate such a road. Those appointed were J. Rodes Brown, Capt. H. C. Warwick, R. H. Dulaney, E. M. Jones, and Herbert Williams.
All members of the board were present at the meeting.
Hay Yields Lag Behind
Other Crops
Hay has not kept pace with other Virginia crops during the past two decades in the matter of increased average yields per acre.
This was pointed out by H. L. Diinton, head of VPI’s agronomy department.
From 1329 through- 1947, he said, the acreage planted to all hay crops in the state increased from 925,000 to 1,351,000 'but the average yield per acre remained virtually unchanged.
In the same period, other major crops registered substantial increases in average yields, ranging from 10 percent for alfalfa to 50 or 60 precent for corn.
He emphasized that hay yields are important because Virginia is becoming more and more of a livestock state, with cattle numbers now placed at more than 1,000,000 head.
He pointed out that hay formas probably one-half of the feed for Virginia cattle during winter months'. More of it is fed to beef cattle than to dairy cattle!
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