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advice on what to plant, how much, and when to plant and harvest.
Try to employ everyone in the County and not have a lot of people drawing unemployment checks for doing nothing.
Why not set up an open market where anyone in the County could sell any farm product they might have at the price they want to sell for, not what they have to sell at a price to keep the price up to some standard set by the Federal or State Organization.
I am sure the consumers would drive in from Washington, D. C., other cities and towns to buy everything produced on the farm and nothing would go to waste.
The farmers would be Happy and more Prosperous.
FRANK E. NEAL RR1, Box 63G Castleton, Va. 22716
Benefits
Minimal
To the editor:
First, the Rappahannock News provided excellent and unbiased coverage of the hearing held December 22 on the application to install an Alpine Slide at the ski area. I hope it will cause the citizens of our county to evaluate the proposal.
The only benefit I can visualize from such an installation is a very limited monetary one to a very few people. I fear an adverse effect on residents through higher taxes, pollution of the environment and an inequitable diversion of our limited county road funds for improving the Harris Hollow road. Additional tax revenues seem likely to fall far short of increased costs to be borne by taxpayers, notwithstanding the other problems.
It is unlikely that many county residents would try the Alpine Slide more than once, if at all. Can Rappahannock County afford, or actually desire to become an area for "thrill rides" for residents of the District of Columbia area? Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens surely can serve them adequately.
ALBERT DAUB
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