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books — I read books about every aspect of cattle mSnagemeht and pasture renovation."
Mrs. Lucas called on Mayo Brown, farm management consultant from Clarke County, for help. "He came and spent the day.” she said. “He became a fmiliar sight around here, coming for the day whenever 1 needed him." With Brown's help. Mrs. Lucas soon had the farm in good working order, and purchased a herd of Angus cows.
la-* I960, Mrs. Lucas became a cooperator with the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District and over the years built three farm ponds. At 84. she gets around the vast area with the help of a golf cart. The dayto-day operation is now run by her son. Col. Robert Dickey, who retired from the Marine Corps in 1974.
The Colonel and his wife, Kitty, continued to improve the land with a planned program of pasture, hay. and beef cattle herd management. The 205 open acres now support 66 Angus and Angus-Hereford cross cows. The cows calve in early winter and calves are sold in the Stale Graded Feeder Cattle Sale the following fall. Fifty-five acres of fescue and clover are used for hay and stockpiled winter grazing.
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