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[120] Derr Report, 1930, 29.

[121] _Ibid._, 1936, 16; and notes following interview, Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[122] ”Farm Notes” and ”Scientific Feeding,” January 22, 1925; and ”Rid Houses and Hens of Vermin,” October 21, 1926; all in _Herndon News-Observer_.

[123] _Ibid._, April 14, 1932.

[124] Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; and _The Southern Planter_, April, 1930.

[125] Statements of Holden Harrison and Joseph Beard in Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[126] ”The Way Out for the Farmer,” _Was.h.i.+ngton Star_, June 19, 1932; _Agricultural Census, 1925_; Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 71; ”A Unique Fairfax County Farm,” undated newspaper clipping (c. 1945) belonging to Mrs. Mary Scott; Elizabeth Rice to author, Wilmington, Delaware, January 30, 1979.

[127] Funk, ”An Economic History of Small Farms Near Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.,”

4.

[128] Derr Report, 1935, 10. Mr. D. H. McAslan made about $500 the first year from a $143 investment.

[129] Funk, ”An Economic History of Small Farms Near Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.,”

6-7; Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_; and Derr Report, 1927, 13.

[130] Description of A. S. Harrison by Holden Harrison, Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.

[131] ”Fairfax Farmer States Facts,” _Herndon News-Observer_, March 1, 1934.

[132] Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 29-30.

[133] Nan Netherton, Donald Sweig, Janice Artemel, Patricia Hickin, and Patrick Reed, _Fairfax County, Virginia: A History_ (Fairfax Virginia, 1978), 480-483.

[134] Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 26-27.

[135] ”Pure Bred Bulls,” _Herndon News-Observer_, May 17, 1928, 1; and Derr Report, 1926, 6.

[136] ”History of the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers a.s.sociation,”

_Herndon News-Observer_, May 4, 1933.

[137] _Ibid._; and Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.

[138] William Edward Garnett, ”Rural Organization in Relation to Rural Life in Virginia,” _Virginia Agricultural Extension Station Bulletin 256_ (Blacksburg, May 1927), 11; and Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 83.

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

[140] Garnett, ”Rural Organization in Relation to Rural Life in Virginia,” and _Ibid._

[141] _Agricultural Censes, 1925, 1940._ The 1940 figures show milk production per farm in Fairfax County to be 400% above the average in the state.

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