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Farmers Find
New Sideline
When Howard W.Brent, Jr. stepped up to the microphone last week during the five-day outdoor recreation symposium held in Blacksburg, you could easily tell he was a man who loved his work. Brent operates a campground called 'Grey’s Point* near Topping, Virginia. A couple of years ago Grey’s Point was merely an attractive patch of woods along the banks of the Rappahannock River. But then Brent moved in with an ax and shovel and converted it into a campground complete with hot showers and a trading post. He opened it to the public last summer. , The public came and looked,’ and apparently liked what they saw. At any rate, they didn’t seem to mind paying BrenL$3 a night for camping under the trees. Brent didn’t make a killing last summer, in fact he didn’t even show a profit, and doesn’t expect to for three years. But he’s having the time of his life mingling with campers whom he calls, 'high quality people," and one day he hopes it will pay. Then there was PhilipM.Mit chell of Manassas, at the symposium, who converted his farm into a shooting preserve turning his chicken house and sheep shed into an elaborate club house and dog kennel. He sells hunting to city folk, and when he isn’t selling hunt ing he’s training, boarding and breeding dogs, and selling game birds for meat. Mitchell’s partner, whom he calls a 'man-and-a-half* i6 his wife. Last season she dressed some 5,000 game birds for hunters and'while she was resting she took care of my five children" Mitchell said. Also at the symposium was farmer John A. Wade from Alton who went down to his farm pond to fish one day, and was told by some stranger to get the heck out of there.
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