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see the bull s head on the top left corner on the streamer is that of an Angus, we add a plus to that “A”. (Editor’s note: The paper tries to remember to alternate the Angus with a Hereford, just to keep the white-faced boys happy)
South Boston News, down in Halifax county, of the southwest good cattle country too. “Hundreds see rose show exhibit by garden clubhand that too is from our good land, showing its versatility, in production and the interests of our natives.
The King George News, and that’s way over south of Fredericksburg, where the Rappahannock River gets wider and the Potomac bounds it on the east. It too is good country and to price its editor’s worth he has the Chesapeake League Baseball standing box on the front page. Sign of a good American.
The Shenandoah Valley, over at New Market, where our weekly column has been used for many weeks and months too, “4-H Barn Dance held in barn”, and you’ve got to know these people of the Valley to knowr just how much fun they get out of that sort of thing, and how much the boys of the print office cooperate in seeing it has space. _
The Amherst New Era Progress, and Amherst county is about due south of Charlottesville, great country too. That fine County Agent there, O. B. Ross, has space for his column of Farm Notes, to read them is like going to a good extension meeting.
The Tidewater News, from that good town of Franklin, Southampton County, it’s down there that the Hampshire hog is getting such a play by the peanut growers and some farmers are already using an Angus bull on their lower bracket dairy cows, for vealer production, while their top producers go to a top bull of that dairy breed for stancion replacements, its as it should be. "Profitable hog production without pasture is an impossibility”, says the Farm News page by the farm and home extension agent. And that’s tantamount to gospel.
That has taken-you good folks up there on Route 211 and other good highways thereabouts, over a lot of territory, none better than your own, for its all part of the good Old Dominion. (Released by Virginia Angus Association.)
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