Chapter VIII: Part III: Notes

_Professionalization and an Increased Standard of Living_

[157] Thomas A. Bailey, _The American Pageant_ (Boston, D. C. Heath, 1966), 416.

[158] _United States Congressional Record_, 1914, 1916, 1917.

[159] Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979.

[160] Kolb and Brunner, _A Study of Rural Society_, 424.

[161] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; McNair, "What I Remember" and "Fred Curtice, Fairfax Dairy Farmer," _Washington Post_, October 24, 1978.

[162] "Poultry School at Fairfax," February 16, 1933; and "Two Day Poultry School a Success," March 2, 1933, both in _Herndon News-Observer_.

[163] Advertisement in _Herndon News-Observer_, June 4, 1925.

[164] Beard/Netherton/Reed, November, 1974.

[165] Derr Report, 1925, 14; and 1937 Report.

[166] Minutes of Meetings, Farmer's Club #1, Herndon, Virginia, October 1, 1909 to January 13, 1935, copy courtesy of Rebecca Middleton.

[167] "Dairymen to Meet," _Fairfax Herald_, August 30, 1935; "Floris Producers Active," _Herndon News-Observer_, January 22, 1925; Derr Report, 1927; for an outstanding example of a contract such as the one described, see contract between Burden S. Athey and Windsor Lodge Farm, Huntley, Virginia, May 31, 1933, in possession of Mrs. Mary Scott.

[168] Lucy Blake Report, 1938, 7.

[169] See all of the annual reports of home demonstration agents, especially Sarah E. Thomas Reports, 1933 and 1934; and Lucy Steptoe Report, 1936.

[170] For 4-H Club activity, see annual reports of home demonstration agents; and "The Short Course," _Fairfax Herald_, July 16, 1926.

[171] Derr Report, 1926.

[172] "Floris 'Aggies' Organize," _Herndon News-Observer_, January 13, 1926 (sic, 1927); and Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

[173] "Influence of Club Members," _Herndon News-Observer_.

[174] Muriel Wheeler, 4-H Record Book, Herndon Club, 1933, in 4-H Record File, in Virginiana.

[175] _15th Census of the United States, Agricultural Summary, 1930_; Kolb and Brunner, _A Study of Rural Society_, 387; and advertisement in _Herndon News-Observer_, March 26, 1925.

[176] Derr Report, 1935, 13; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[177] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979; and Rita Shug, "The Town of Herndon," unpublished monograph, George Mason University, May, 1973, 8.

[178] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[179] VPI, _Housing_, 26.

[180] _Ibid._, 14 and 26; "Farm Home Water Supply for Fairfax County," _Herndon News-Observer_, June 23, 1932; and Netherton, et al., _Fairfax County_, 519.

[181] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, _Historic Progressive Fairfax County in Old Virginia_ (Alexandria, 1928), 35; Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[182] Greear/Netherton, March 23, 1978; and interview with Emma Millard, by Dana Gumb, November 15, 1972.

[183] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[184] Minutes of Farmer's Club #1; and Resolution of Farmer's Club #14, n.d., copy found in Minutes of Farmer's Club #1.

[185] Derr Report, 1925, 14.

[186] Publicity Committee of Herndon Chamber of Commerce, "Facts Regarding Bond Issue Every Voter Should Know," 1924, copy courtesy of Holden Harrison; Robert T. Hawkes, Jr., "The Emergence of a Leader: Harry Flood Byrd, Governor of Virginia, 1926-1930," _Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_, LXXXII, July 1, 1974, 281; _Historic Progressive Fairfax County_, 35.

[187] Agnes Rothery, _Virginia: The New Dominion_ (New York, 1940), 124-25.

[188] Derr Report, 1925.

[189] Lucy Blake Report, 1937, 7.

[190] "Improved Highways are Big Aid to the Farmer," _Herndon News-Observer_, December 30, 1926.

[191] McNair, "What I Remember."

[192] "A Unique Fairfax County Farm."

[193] "Cows Like Machines," _Herndon News-Observer_, April 28, 1932.

[194] _Report of the Commission to Study the Condition of the Farmers of Virginia to the General Assembly of Virginia_ (Richmond, 1930), 35; and Lord, _Men of Earth_, 147.

[195] Jere Rusk quoted in Joseph Schafer, _The Social History of American Agriculture_ (New York, 1936), 159. This book also contains an excellent summary of the problems mechanization produced for the small farmer.

[196] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[197] "The Way Out for the Farmer," _Washington Star_, June 19, 1932, section 7, 3.

[198] Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 53; and _Agricultural Censes, 1925_ and _1940_. The figures are 21.9% mortgaged in 1924, 28.4% in 1925 and 30.25% in 1940.

[199] J. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978.

[200] Derr Report, 1925, 8.

[201] Derr Report, 1921, 1.

[202] National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, _Proceedings of Long Range Study Committee I-III_, November 1967-March 1968, (Washington, D.C., 1969); and _Rural Electric Fact Book_ (Washington, D.C., 1960).

[203] Ellmore/Middleton/Pryor, March 8, 1979.

[204] Beard/Netherton/Reed, November, 1974.

[205] See _Ibid._, Derr Reports, 1926 and 1928; and Schaefer, _The Social History of American Agriculture_, 162.

[206] Virginia Agricultural Advisory Council, _A Five Year Program for Development of Virginia Agriculture_ (Richmond, 1923), 17; and Fairfax County Land Record Books, 1930-1931, in Virginiana.

[207] "Tax Rate," editorial in _Fairfax Herald_, April 23, 1926.

[208] Hawkes, "Harry Flood Byrd," 281.

[209] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[210] Editorial in _Fairfax Herald_, September 6, 1935.