Frying Pan Farm

Frying Pan Farm is a monograph by Elizabeth Brown Pryor. A passage says that dairying was widespread in the area and that Frying Pan Farm works much as a snapshot would to recall an important phase in Fairfax County's history. Part I, Continuity, says that the rhythms of farm life were based on the immutable round of the seasons, and that nature was the farmer's clock.

An event attended by 75 farmers heard reports by local farmers, talks by experts from USDA and VPI, and workshops on topics such as Egg Grading, Growing the Pullets and The Poultry Outlook for Virginia. The text says the largest and most prominent nationally of the local farmer's organizations and cooperatives was the Grange, a farmer's association initially started in Washington, D.C., in 1867. When competition became keen among the many Herndon forges, Henry Moffett refused to resort to the accepted practice of defaming the other smiths to build up his own business.