[93] _Ibid._, 201-202.
[94] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[95] _Ibid._; Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978; Barger and Lansberg, _American Agriculture, 1899-1939_, 212.
[96] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[97] Nickell and Randolph, _An Economic and Social Survey of Fairfax County_, 75-76; and Derr Report, 1925, photo section.
[98] Derr Report, 1936. In 1940 there were still only 298 tractors in the county. See _Agricultural Census, 1940_.
[99] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[100] Barger and Lansberg, _American Agriculture, 1899-1939_, 221; Richard Peck was among those in the Floris vicinity who believed that the early machines "ruined" a good cow; see Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978.
[101] Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979. The Harrisons bought their equipment quite early--around 1924; McNair, "What I Remember"; Peck/Netherton, February 23, 1978; J. Middleton/Netherton, February 24, 1978; Bailey/Netherton, December 19, 1978.
[102] Advertis.e.m.e.nts in _Herndon News-Observer_; and Holden Harrison quoted in Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[103] Author"s conversation with Joseph Beard, April 25, 1979; and Sears and Roebuck catalog, 1927-1928.
[104] Inventory of property of George W. Kidwell, April 6, 1928, Fairfax County Will Book Liber 11, 343-344.
[105] McNair, "What I Remember"; and notes on conversation with Joseph Beard, April 16, 1979.
[106] Beard/Pryor, February 27, 1979; Congressional Record.
[107] Russell Lord, _Men of Earth_ (New York, 1931), 80.
[108] "Poultry Men Confer," _Fairfax Herald_, February 26, 1926.
[109] Virginia Agricultural Advisory Council, _A Five Year Program for the Development of Virginia"s Agriculture_ (Richmond, 1923), 29; and Derr Report, 1920.
[110] Derr Report, 1926.
[111] Beard/Harrison/Pryor, March 6, 1979.
[112] Derr Reports, nearly every year. See, for example, 1932, 11.
[113] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979; and Harrison/Pryor, February 5, 1979.
[114] Beard/Pryor, January 23, 1979.
[115] Derr Report, 1932, 11.
[116] _Ibid._, 1926, 8.
[117] _Ibid._, 1925, 6.
[118] Beard/Netherton/Reid, November, 1974.
[119] _Ibid._
[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," _Washington 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 Washington, 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 Washington, 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.