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40 YEARS AGO
Augustl2,1965
Rapp-Chats by W.H. Lyne Of the twenty-eight commodities listed by the Virginia Crop Reporting Service under prices received,' but seven show to be selling at a figure equal or higher than the three year (1947-1949) price averages. Of these seven, only two could be thought of as being commercially produced in Rappahannock County: Wool and lambs. Our sheep population is at an all time low. Are you farmers turning your backs on a type of livestock consistently a sure fire moneymaker for the reasonably good manager? Swine is another one-out-ofseven item. Here again have you slipped? True there's hardly enough feed com produced to fatten a couple car loads, but man-o-man, what about feeder pigs? On Sunday, August 15, the Rappahannock Mills Committee of the Historical Society will hold its first meeting on the Court House grounds at 2 o'clock. At 3 p.m. the group will safari to at least two of the extant mills in the county. Arrangements will be made ahead of time to see that we can get in and around the old mills. A project study sheet will be ready for each participant to use in collecting data. This will be the beginning of the historical program of locating, identifying and photographing the thirty to forty mill sites known to have been in use in this
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