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That the farm family was no longer raising its own meat, that they had lost a good deal of control over the quality and availability of their daily necessities, that housewives viewed themselves as important and cohesive enough to organize a boycott, that farm commodities were no longer strictly under the regulation of the farmer, and that the government's interference was beginning to be questioned and resented were signs of radical change in rural economic and social structure. The farmer was no longer so isolated, nor so overtaxed with sheer physical labor. The price he paid for these advantages was diminis.h.i.+ng control over a way of life which had begun to slip away.

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,” _Was.h.i.+ngton 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] Advertis.e.m.e.nt 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 advertis.e.m.e.nt 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.