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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11
ELLIS LEADS N COTTON
Banner County in Production oil
the FIeecy Staple.

Some time ago Mr.. e. j. Little
john of Galveston wrote Colonel
George l.. Walton, of the state de-
partment of insurance, statistics and
history, for o list of the counties in
Texas leading In the production of
cotton, wheat, sugar and fruit. Last
Saturday Mr. Littlejohn was fur
nished with the following:
Cotton-Ellisc county produced 1885,
i04 bales; Williamson county, l08,-
l37 bales; Fannin county, l02,0l9;
Hunt county, o. STA bales. The fig
ures for cotton are for 1900.
Wheat-~In 1899 Collin county
stood first, producing 1,454 ,4J0
bushels; Denton county second,
with !, ,332, ,0G0 bushels; Tarrant
county third, with 343, 800 bushels; !;
Grayson county fourth, with 724 200
bushels; Dallas county fifth, with
100 go bushels.
Sugar-In 1890 Fcrt Bend county
led in the production Of sugar, with
| ,s}7 600 pounds; Brazoria county
second, with 62l 900 pounds.
Fruit In 1899 Smith county was
first In the value of fruit, with $780,
9g4; Wood county second, with s48.-
673; Anderson county third, with
$50 ,ltS; Van Zandt county fourth,
with s42. .23l; Fannin county fifth,
with s35, AS.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11

Foley's Honey and Tar always
stops the coughand heals the lungs.
Sold By b, w. Fearis.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11

Fannie kuhin, a Bohemian, was
brought here this moraing from the
Ennis country and tried for lunacy
A jury decided that she was of un-
sound mind and ordered her sent to
the asylum, She was taken To the
county farm where she will be kept
confined ia the insane department
until there Is room fer her in one of
the state asylums.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11

Very few could believe i'm looking
at A. T. Hoadley, q healthy, robust
blacksmith OF Tilden, Ind, that for
ten years he suffered such tor
tures from Rheumatism as few
could endure and live But "a won
derful change followed his taking
Electric Ritters. 1.-TWO bottles
wholly cured me,n he writes. and /
have not felt a twinge in over q
year" They regulate the Kidneys,
purify the blood and cure Rheuma-
tism, Neuralgia, Nervousness, inn
prove digestion and give perfect
health. Try them. Only 50cts. at
Herring-Sparks drug store.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11
THE LONG { SHORT or IT
.uart Moore was in Hillsboro to-


Stuart Moore was in Hillsboro to-
day.
| Ii you know personal phone the
/ Daily Light.
Bert Stands is now checking bag
gage at the Central depot.
A little ad. in the Want Column
will be read by everybody In town.
When you have friends or rela-
tives visiting you tell the Daily
Light about it.
If you want to sell that Jersey
cow tell the people about it through
the Want Column.
The Twentieth Century club will
meet with Miss Effie Arnold Thurs
day afternoon at O'Clock. Oh
Mrs. FL. w. Leeper will entertain
the NJ. w. M. Club tomorrow after
noon at three O'Clock at her home
on West Main street.
w. f. Coleman VS. j. B. Clarke IL
Co., ct al, distress proceedings, is
the style of suit filed in the coun-
ty court this morning.
e. s. Boze, the contractor, went
to Ennis this morning to submit
bid on the construction of Catho-
lie church in that city.
DR.. J. A. Jones has returned from
Chicago where he has been for the
past two months, taking a special
course of lectures at a medical
college.
Col. l.. A. Daffin, superintendent
of the northern division of the
Houston and Texas Central, and
Ollie RawI, train master, were in
the city today from Ennis.
b. P. o. f. meets tonight in regu-
lar session. All members and visit
ing brothers are requested TO be
present. Business OF Importance.
j. b. HINES, Exalted Ruler.
Rev. j. j. Cannifax, who was pas
tor of the Boz circuit last year,
spent last night in the city and left
this morning for Temple to attend
the annual melting of the Northwest
Texas conference.
The new bonds over which the
city has been in so much trouble
this year arrived last night from
Austin where they were approved by
the attorney general The bonds
amount to So, 200 and have been
sold to Ellis county.
Rev. F. NJ. Hensley, county mis-
sionary for the Baptist association,
has just closed a successful meeting
at Lone Elm. There were twenty
two accessions to the church, which
was greatly revived and will meet
next Sunday to call a pastor.
The Methodist church on College |
street is now being repainted and
the heating apparatus overhauled |
TO the cold weather. |
These repairs were much needed and |
will add greatly to the comfort and |
outward appearance of the building |
Col. NJ. w. Parker, a travelling |
salesman, was here this morning
from Ennis. While in the city he
called at this office and renewed his |
subscription to the Enterprise. He
has been a reader of the Enterprise
for the past year and he says it is
one OF the best weeklies in Texas.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11

The Light Want column is read
by the young and the old.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11
Disposition OF Bonds.

The city bonds just received from
Austin have been transferred to Ell
lis county. There is S23, 900 worth
of the bonds, S., 600 of them being
held by the permanent school fund
and 81 800 held by the courthouse
sinking fund. The balance OF s3 500
will be carried by the Waxahachie
National Bank until the county has
sufficient cash Oh hand TO pay for
them.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11

a. mercury viii surely destroy the sense OF smell
and completely deFange the whole system when
entering IL through the MUCOUS surfaces. Saeh
articles should neger b. used except on pre-
serptseas from reputable physicians. as the
damage they aEsl DO Is ten fola 10 the good yaa
caA possibly derive freM them HATS Catarrh
Care. manufactured by Il. j. Cheney Il Co.
Toledo, ~ contains no mercury aud is taken
Internally, acting directly upoa the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. In ba 7Ing Hall 5
Catarrh Cure be sure yeu get the genuine, Ii Is
taken Internally, and made III Toledo. Ohio h5
n. j. Cheney g. Go. Testimonials free.
sold By Druggists, 7Se. per bottle
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11
Big Candy Matinee
Saturday
Prices: 1OC & zoe
Anxious Moments .

Some of the most anxious hours
of a mothers life are those when
the little ones Of the household have
the Group. There is no other medj-
cine so effective as Foley's Honey
and Tar. 1t is a household favorite
for throat and lung troubles, and as
it contains no opiares or other pois-
ions it can be safely given. Sold by
b. W. Fearis.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11

Many broad minded physicians
prescribe Foley's Honey and Tar,
as they have never found so safe
and reliable remedy for throat and
lung troubles as this great medicine.
Sold by b. w. Fearis.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-11-11
First Presbyterian Church

Rev. j l.. Stuart, a native of
China, will deliver an address on
Foreign Missions at T:I5 tonight.
All are cordially invited to attend.
j, n. Ivy, pastor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

DR.. Cooper Curtice, for some time
State Veterinarian of the North
Carolina Department of Agricul-
ture, sends us the following notice
regarding the roultry school that
he has charge OF:
The sixth annual poultry class of
the Rhode Island Agricultural Col
lege, Kingston, Rhode Island, will
meet on January Z, 1908, and con
tinue for six weeks.
The course of instruction will, as
usual, include lectures, practical.
work and excursions to the Boston
Show and successful poultry plants.
Lectures will be given by members
of the faculty and by well-known-
experts in the poultry world. Prac-
tice will be given in planning poal
try houses, incubation, breeding, pre-
pairing for market and other matters
incidental to the industry.
The usual attendance is expected.
As the accommodations at the col
lege are limited, it will be necessary
for those determined to attend to
apply early.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
Opportunities in the South.

The great need of the South in
agriculture is, as everybody knows,
Investigation. More specifically,
and as an aid and adjunct to the rails
ing of other crops than cotton and
corn, an immense multiplication of
its livestock seems to be the first
improvement in order, accompanied
by a wider cultivation of forage and
similar plants, and perhaps, the in
PRODUCTION of new varieties, not
merely for the sake Of feeding ami
mails, but as creators of humus and
gatherers of nitrogen. = = Beef
production, however, a unquestion-
ably be carried on to a vast extent,
and in fact, a considerable beginning
has been made already.-Gilbert M.
Tucker of Albany, n. Y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

spirits because of fine crops and high
prices. In addition, all the indns-
tries of the State are on a good paw
ing basis. Altogether, there is q
most suspicious outlook for the con-
tinuation of the good times and solid
development of the State"
Newton Enterprise: Mr.. N. M,
Cline has cribbed this year 2,640
bushels of corn, and says he has the
prettiest wheat he ever saw at this
time of the year.-We have in the
Office now a radish that is a radish.
It weighs u pounds, is IS inches
long and % inches in circumfer-
ence.-Mr. John Sheriff. brought
us the top of a cotton stalk Satur-
day that was full of white blossoms.
This has been Almost remarkable
fall. Good cotton could have been
made on the wheat fields after har-
vest this year.
Duplin Journal: Holly is being
shipped in large quantities from u
woods to the North for Christmas
decorations.-Rev. P. Mcintyre
will soon begin growing roses under
glass, which crop is extensively
profitable and yields readily $4,000
profit per acre annually.-Magno-
liza is now the city of flower bulbs.
Millions of t~ube-roses, h~yacinths,
caladium, Gamma, dahlia and other
flower bulbs are being packed in the
drying houses about the town. Every
body is busy as a bee and the town is
moving on and upward under the
whirling wheels of push, energy and
progress.-Mr. Henry J. Faison
has a four-acre rutabaga turnip
patch which is very fine indeed and
is yielding 500 bushels to the acre.
This crop is most profitable for mich
cows, cattle and hogs, and also for
local markets. He presented the
Journal with one that actually
weighed nine pounds and two ounces,
the biggest We scribe ever saw. These
turnips are gathered, tops cut and
banked like potatoes and keep well
during the winter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
According to the Annual Wool Re

According to the Annual Wool Re-
view for 1902, just issued, there are
42,184,122 sheep in the United
States, exclusive of lambs under one
year old, and the clip, exclusive of
the pulled wool, during the last year,
comprised 274,321,O32 pounds, as
against 265, 1902, 1928 pounds in 1901.
This shows an increase of about
100000 pounds. The number of
sheep reported a year ago was A.
100000. The only States which show
any considerable increase in number
of sheep since 1901 are Kentucky,
Montana and Wyoming.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

at least two months must labor in the
feld-just the same as a disfran-
chised free negro. After you house
it if you have not the right kind of a
house or if it has not been properly
dried, you may and probably will lose
it. Then when you carry it to mar
ket you will have the grim satisfac-
ton of paying from five to seven per
cent to have the American Tobacco
Company price it for you.
There are some compensations.
You can get to go to town and eat
barbecue at forty cents per pound
or eat fried fish and drink poor cof-
fee for 10 cents a snack. You can
sit up all night at the warehouse and
crack jokes with some stranger per-
haps. If you are a drinking man,
along about two o'clock in the morn
ing you will be getting pretty dry
unless the stranger. has his bottle
full, for yours will be empty long be-
fore hal good hour. You will sure
ly be too poor to lodge at a hotel I'M
less the warehouseman gives you
lodging free. The festive drummer
will be your dear friend until your
tobacco is sold. He will visit you in
cas- and out of season. His espe-
cial market is the best in the world
and his house the best house in this
best market.
Finally, my brethren, if you wish
to spend your year in severe toll for
the especial benefit of two of these
gigantic aggregations of capital call
ed (for the want of a more appro-
pirate name) trusts, then by all
means plant tobacco and plant large
ly. The Virginia-C Carolina Chemical
Company and the American Tobacco
Company will take exquisite pleasure
in gathering in the cash whether you
prosper or not.
Brother farmers, do you relish this
dish of "crow?" They price your
guano and they price your tobacco.
What do you price?
ARRAM J. MOVE.
Pitt Co., N. O..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
North Carolina Farming Notes.

crop of peanuts we nave YET nedru
of was grown on the plantation OF
O'Berry Bros, by Mr.. John Ander-
son-6OO bushels on six acres, not
w~ithstanding the dry weather dam
aged them some.
Troy Examiner: Mr.. J. A. Morris,
of the Uwharrie section, is the crack
a-jack farmer of the county, SO far
as we have heard. With only n
horse, he has made during the last
year seven bales of cotton and 335
bushels of corn. This is the kind of
farming that pays.
High Point Enterprise: Shepard
Mountain is to be used by Mr.. W. G.
Brokaw, the owner, as a goat ranch.
Last Saturday night a car load of
Angora goats arrived here and were
Immediately sent to the mountain,
where they were liberated. The ex-
pertinent will be watched with a
great deal of interest.
Lumberton R~obesonian: Mr.. j.
Hammond, of Echo, who was a Wis
itor at this office while in town Fri
day, reports fine crops and says that
the farmers in the vicinity of Echo
were never in better shape. He is
another of our progressive young
farmers who have demonstrated that
tobacco is the money crop for this
county.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. W. W. XII
ser, of Providence township, Neck
lenburg county, was in town last
Monday and reported that crops in
his section are turning out a great
deal better than it was thought they
would a few weeks ago. MI. Kizer
says that he has made twe~ntg-eight
bales of cotton and 325 bushels of
corn on a two-horse farm.
In Winston during November the
shipments of manufactured tobacco
this month aggregated 1,602,365
pounds. The stamp sales, or revenue
collections, we're $11O,254.82. The
leaf sales were 4,674,553 pounds, for
which farmers received $491, 5O3.57,
an average of 1912 cents per pound.
The sales for October and Novem-
Der aggregated 9,739,553 pounds,
which brought $1,O61, 1921.
Smithfeld Herald: Mr.. M. P. Las
sitter, of Elevation township, farms
for a profit. He raised this year sew
enteen bales of cotton on thirteen
acres. On three acres of this land
he raised six thousand pounds of
seed cotton. He broke his land ten
inches deep and run his rows four
feet apart. He put in the rows a
small quantity of stable manure and
six hundred pounds of fertilizer per
acre. He used one hundred pounds
~cerealite as a top manuring about
July LIST.
Washington Post: Prosperity is
the rule and adversely the exception
in North Carolina these days." re-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
ADVICE ABOUT TOBACCO RAISING.

Who Grow the Weed.
In Harry Farmers last article to
your paper he refers to efforts that
are being put forth to induce the
farmers near Wilmington to embark
in the cultivation of tobacco.
The person who is chief instigator
in this movement is surely holding
out false hopes to these farmers. I'm
less he has a patented furnace six
inch pipes will not do, as all old to-
bacco raisers and curers very well
know. 1t is quite a different thing
drying the air in a comparatively
empty room to drying the air in a
sixteen-feet cube filled with green to-
bacco. 1t takes no more wood and no
more fire to keep the temperature to
175 degrees after the tobacco is COM
paratively dry than it does to keep it
at 120 to 40 degrees when you are
drying out the sap. By actual ex-
perience a twelve-inch fue is small
enough and it will be economy to be-
gin right.
He is also misleading them as to
prices. Few, very few, fine wrappers
will be raised and very few of these
will bring fancy prices. I live in a
splendid tobacco district as is evil
denced by Observation-Disclosures of
the farmers raising the woodland
not n farmer in ten ever gets a pile
of tobacco to bring even fifty cents
per pound. A great many more farm
ers will get an eight to ten cent aver
age than will get over that. 1 saw
on my home market very good wrap
pers sell for 1919 cents per pound.
1t is true some few piles of extra
fine wrappers sold for forty and one
pile brought fifty, but a great many
more piles brought five than fifty.
The worst of it is, tobacco is de-
creasing in price every day. Tobac-
co is selling for at least twenty-five
per cent less now than the middle of
October. On our market last Friday
upon some of the floors only two buy
ers were in attendance, and they
practically both belong to the same
oncern. The American and Impe-
rial tobacco companies are at present
monopolizing the entire trade. All
grades of tobacco are lower on all
these eastern markets. How low it
will 60 we do not know.
If these farmers are doing fairly
well now, they will profit by letting
tobacco alone. We farmers and land
lords have made money for the last
two years. Still there are drawbacks
The first year in tobacco, even if a
good year, all the surplus earning
must go to build barns and storage
houses, getting sticks, paying expert
curers and graders, etc.
With either a wet year or very dry
one a profitable crop is rarely gath
cred. You must nurse this crop as
you would a sick baby from the first
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
Gazette: More

Gastonia Gazette: More wheat
than usual is sown this season, and
the farmers are happy to see it grow
ing and looking so well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-30
PROFITS IN FARMING.

In computing the profits connected
with farming it is never fair to take
results for any single year. There is
Of necessity, owing to climatic condi-
tons, markets, crop failures in other
portions of the earth. wars, legislation
and other things. nothing uniform in
farm profits one year with another.
and to correctly estimate the profits of
a well managed farm no less period
than ten years should be taken. the
average profits for such term then
fairly representing the profits of the
business. For instance. we have been
told by several business farmers that
the profits on their farm operations for
the year 1901 were not less than 20 per
cent upon the capital invested. this net,
after all expenses were deducted.
Then we have known more than one
year when the farm was operated at an
actual loss. But few farmers keep any
book accounts with their farms. and.
as one man told US. the only way he
knew when he was making any money
was when he took load of hogs to
market aud there was not some fellow
waiting for the money when he got
home.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-30
THE OLD caAxGrn n rSvrx.


The sixty-year-oId granger who rents
or sells his farm and moves TO town
gets along all right for the Arst six
months. He enjoys the relief from the
burdens Of farm work, the making of
new acquaintances. the loafing around
the streets and in the stores, but pretty
soon this gets to be an old story, and he
begins to find life i'm town desperately
monOtonOus, and for diversion he very
naturally turns to local politics and
tries to run for county supervisor, and
by the time the local sharps have
Knocked the stuffing out of him at the
caucus he thinks there is no place quite
so good OH earth as the old home on
the farm, and he is just about right in
his conclusions. The very best thing for
most such men is to stay in the old
home on the farm, build tenant house.
hire a good married man by the year
and have the fun Of bOssing the job.
With all the modern improvements
which may be secured to make farm
life pleasing and attractive and all the
associations connected with life work
on the old farm and with nothing on
earth to do in town but loaf, we cannot
see where any man betters himself by
making this change. Put $1,000 into
improvements in the home on the farm,
and it is the best home to be had.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-30
WASTED wATER

What is a dry river bed in the arid
territory of the west was recently
transformed into a raging torrent. car.
rying thirty feet of water Suppose
that government dam. costing, say.
$1.000.000 had been there to have i'm.
pounded this water and thus have per
mitted It's use over the sagebrush plain
during the crop season. how long would
1t take for the land so reclaimed TO be
worth more than the cost of such i'm
proyement? And S60,00O.0 900 is appro
priatsd almost without debate by con
gress for so called river and harbor i'm
provement. large part of which is 70
be expended upon the pulling of snags
from and the dredging of nameIess
creeks and streams. the which when
the money Is spent would not float an
old Erie canal boat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-30
THE MUsKEG SWAMP.

We have two inquiries as to the
best treatment to give reclaimed mus
keg swamp-one Of those prairie ponds
where in an early day the wild ducks
used to nest and the rats build their
houses. These swamps, when drained,
differ Very materially from the wire
grass or peat marsh and demand very
different treatment. 1t Is often found
that when such swamps are drained
and an attempt Is made to grow crops
upon them something is wrong, and the
crops fail. The trouble lies in an excess
Of lime and potash or alkali in such
soils. For time after reclamation it
is of no use to plant corn or attempt to
grow the common cereals on such
ground. The best thing to do is to give
it a good dressing Of barnyard ma
nure and get the soil into timothy as
soon as possible, but il the land must
be cropped potatoes will be found the
best crop to plant. After few years in
meadow or even pasture this sour, al
kali trait in the soil will be tanned, and
such reclaimed land will be found to
be the most productive of any on the
farm. The peat slough should be got
into pasture as soon as possible. 1t will
be thus compacted. the peat will decay,
and later it will produce wonderful
crops of corn or fax.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-04-30
BLUE GRASS.

Blue grass is great civilizer and
beautifier. UNLIMITED, it comes creep
ing, creeping. and wages an unceasing
and relentless war on all forms Of weed
life. 1t mats the lawn and the road
side with carpet of velvet. dismantles
the drained bog of its rushes. imbeds
the rocks in a border Of greenery. bor-
ders the babbling brook. carpets the
steep hillside. creeps reverently over
the new made grave and softens and
beauties the home of the dead. re-
spends to the first touch Of the south
wind and the spring sun and remains
green and syer young under the drift
ing SHOWS Of the winter. Humblest Of
all grasses. its mission is of untold
beneficence to the world.