G. Washington's Successor

Hunter Roy Greenlaw farms 385 acres of George Washington's boyhood home on the banks of the Rappahannock River near Falmouth, Va. When Hunter took over the farm after his father's death nearly five years ago, it didn't amount to much. A gangling stalk of a lad, Hunter stayed in high school and managed the farm on the principles he learned there.

He used plenty of fertilizer, rotated his corn, beans, grass crops, grew seed corn under-contract for a wholesale firm, bought a $1,075 tractor on the installment plan to help his two mules and five horses. By the time he was graduated from high school last year, with a four-year average of 92 1/2%, Hunter Roy and the prospering Greenlaw farm were models for miles around. Last week the Future Farmers of America, of which Hunter is one of 173,000 members, convened in Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted honor of Star Farmer, which carries a $500 prize. "I sure would like to win that," said Hunter, who did not think he would because last year's Star Farmer, Robert Lee Bristow, now assistant manager of a farmer's cooperative, hailed from a nearby Virginia county. Ignoring that circumstance, the judges decided on Hunter Roy in record time. After figuring that the $500 would finish the payments on his tractor, Star Farmer Greenlaw hurried back to work. His proud mother fretted: "That boy sure will work himself to death."

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