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The Wool Market is brighter according to reports made by “Big Wheel” representatives of the industry at the annual meeting of the United Wool Growers Association held last week at Harrisonburg. Advance payment at Virginia Wool Pools to be 45c a pound for dear tied wool with a substantial second payment expected at the time the wool is sold. Rappahannock will ship with Culpeper again this year and pooling date will likely be the fourth week in June at Washington Cooperative Fruit Growers. Watch this column concerning further de■ tails. .... - • ■■ ■ • ■ - •
Recent lamb marketing reports made by local farmers indicate sheepherds who failed to dock and castrate lambs are taking around a. 7c per pound penalty. Ouch I
Dr. W. L. Wake, a recent graduate of Alabama School of Vetinary -Medicine,—was in—Washington on Thursday of last Week in search of office space and residence preparitory to setting up business here. Mrs. Wake, formerly Miss Arlene Lauck of Front Royal, in recent years taught school at Amissville. They were enthusiastically received by
(See RAPP-CHATS, Page 8)
Big Strawberries Grown
By His. Barber, Woodpile
Mrs. Lily O’Bannon Barber exhibited some giant strawberries last week that grew at her home near Woodville. “We’re not within the city limits of Woodville,” Mrs. Barber reported, “so you’ll have to say thbe strawberries grew in the suburbs of Woodville.”
One of the berries covered 2% ’ inches on a foot rule. This was not measuring the girth; the berry itself covered that much space. The berries were firm all the way through and Very sweet.
Mrs. "Barber states that she she knows no particular reason for the giant size of the berries. She has always had good luck with strawberries at her place, so it must be the soil, she thinks. At one time she had an excellent patch where the new Baptist pastorate now stands.
In reply to a question as to what kind of berries they were, she said she didn't know. There were three varieties planted, two of which were Fairfax and Dorset, and she didn’t recall the pame oi the third. For mulch, Mrs. Barber puts the yard leaves on the strawberry patch in the fall. She states that she just sprinkles the fallen leaves on the berry plants. and doesn’t bury them too deep.
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