The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-20

us are aware of. Ny better hall
and myself boarded q Katy train
Wednesday morning bound to see
it. This is q great fall to me. Gen
try Bros. show, Buffalo Bills show
and Ringing Bros. are all billed to
be in Waxahachie this month and
the small boys, darkies and me are
each and every day reading with
pleasure the advertisements and
gazing at the pictures on the walls
and when they do come We'll be
there. A show interests some of us
while it is in sight but is soon gone
and forgotten. A fair is different,
when the best farm products, horses,
cattle, hogs, machinery and many
other things too numerous to mem
ton are gathered together at the
fair and from all over great big
Texas, at that, then we learn some-
thing that stays with us and is of
| benefit to us all the years of our
/ lives On arriving at Dallas, the
| first place we visited was the Farm
and Ranch office. Mrs. $. f.
1 Buchanan, who is one of the editors
| of that paper and who has been re-
siding in Waxahachie for several
years, recently moved to Dallas,
/ anu ~ ~ a lItat ~ IlAE w HAtE BlkO
! the Farm d Ranch Office and talk to
/ her, Prof. ConneIi and Frank Hol-
/ land. Prof. COnnell said he would
( have some OF the best speakers I'm
/ Texas at the Institute meeting here,
/ Nov 9Th asd 9Th. There was "a
good attendance at the fair and |
proceeded at once TO the stock pens
and in the horse department awards
were being made to the best saddle
and driving animals, and this was
indeed of itself worth a trip To the
fair, TO see this splendid array Of
the best horses in Texas. Next, To
the hog pens, and there is every
Kind Of hog here except razor
| backs. one man from over in East
Texas said ne wanted 40 Improved
thoroughbred hogs, and the kind OF
hog he wanted was one with his
nose so long that while he rooted
his eyes would be far enough above
the ground to see negro slipping
on him and then when be did see
the darkay, wanted that hog To be
fleet enough to out run him. All
kinds of hogs but those Of this des-
cription was here on exhibition.
gazed on hogs weighing from 100 to
800 pounds; Essex, Berkshires, Po-
land Chinas and Red Jerseys. and
there were more of them here than
ever before and the breeders who
raised them said their sales To men
from all over Texas was fairly
good considering the scarcity Of
feed. While feed is high hogs are
corFespondingiy high and great |
many farmers say IL pays To keep
and feed hogs for market yet.
There was also good showing Of
sheep and goats; If "A farmer has |
any pasture at all, few of these
animals pay we'll. The cattle were
just simply immense. Durhams,
Herefords, Red Polls and Jerseys
seem to be the popular COWS. Beef
and pork now command th. best
prices in the history of the country
and the immense packing houses OF
swift x Armour which will soon be
completed at Fort Worth viii Insure
the best market for beef and pork |
for all time TO come. w. A. Briggs,
the big cattle feeder here in Waxa- |
hachie sold some Ellis county
raised two year-old steers he fat |
tened last winter for something near |
one hundred dollars apiece. Ordi- 1
narily most any farmer In Ellis
county could raise and fatten q few
beeves and hogs for market, and
they in view of the fact that the
Mexican bon weevii Ia here dong
his deadly work on the cotton, had
better look out for some industry
like this. Several head of fine cat
tie were on exhibition from South
Texas. North and West Texas
knew were the banner sections OF
the state for fine bfooded cattle, bat
did not know before that South
Texas was taking such lively In
terest in blooded cattle.
The poultry show this year at the
fair IL also larger than ever and one
lady from u South Texas county,
who had on exhibition fine poultry
of all kinds, said that all the raisers
of poultry who had their fowls here
had sold all that they could spare.
This Dallas fair helps to distribute
the finest and best of everything In
and all over the state, and | have
no doubt but that here matches are
made betwe EN- boys and girls from
different sections of the state. that
result in the building of happy
homes all throughout Texas. The
machinery exhibit IL also very fine
and they are getting the matter of
power to run engines down cheap
now, gasoline and Beaumont OIL
have worked a wonderful saving TO
motive power, and while / am no
engineer or mechanic, was inter
ested for some time in witnessing
these engines recently improved,
running and how cheaply they are
run compared with coal and wood.
The Ladies' Art department where
all kinds of ladies' artistic needle
work was on exhibition was the
place where my better half was
most interested. The splendid pic
lures there interested me and II /
had money would spend part of IL
for fine pictures. The flower yards
on the fair grounds are just beauti-
fnl. There must be an acre or more
of the prettiest flowers imaginable.
The fair management have spent
considerable money and time in
identifying their grounds. The inn
monse big hall was burned this fall
and Of course there Ii no exhibition
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