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By SUSAN LOTH
Contributing Writrr
WASHINGTON—“It was my granddad’s farm, and my great-granddad’s before that. You want to see the old family farm? Go look at the shopping center and the townhouse projects around it. In the middle you’ll find what's left: I guess Mother has around five acres."
Wallace Covington Jr. still lives and works in Fairfax County, Va., but the 200 acres where he raises cattle are in the county down the road—the road that takes him farther from Washington, D. C.’s urban sprawl.
Elsewhere in Fairfax County, homesites are for sale at 823-acre Franklin Farm. The J. B. Franklins have sold their dairy farm, and . the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association Inc. soon will lose one more nearby source.
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