The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-07-11
FROM THE FIELD.

1t is said that In the spring time
young mems thoughts turn 10 love
and ] now know from experience
that a little later on ia the summer
time when the thermometer is regis
tering one hundred or more we older
Texans who are so fortunate to pos
sess "A better-half instead of lying
under the shade of our own houses,
vines and fig trees Tecuperating our
delicate frames, We are chasing
over Texas hunting her people and
relation. / have just returned from
a pleasant mission Of this kind at
Plano, Collin county. At five
O'Clock Saturday afternoon we ar
rived in Dallas and having two
hours to lay over proceeded down
the paved walks To behold the sights
of that big city, nor d / stop until
| reached the Farm and Ranch of
fee. Frank Holland, editor Of that
paper, had just returned from Wash
ington where he had gone to invite
President Roosevelt To come to the
Dallas Fair this fall. Mr.. Holland
said he shook hands with the presi-
dent, looked him in the eye and he
agreed to come and we Texans will
this fall be able to see IA real live
president. Heretofore we have only
been able to look at Mr.. Bryan who
wanted to be president, but Mr..
Holland says the real thing is com
ing this time,
Plano is twenty or thirty miles
north of Dallas and is surrounded
by magnificent country. The
drouth has ruined their corn up
there as it has in Ellis county.
However in the northern part of
that county the corn is good. A
young man, who farms near Mckin-
ney, said TO me that he would make
fifty bushels to the acre. The fact
is / enjoy visiting my betterhalf's
relation just as mucn as she does.
After good wives have toiled, pre-
pairing our meals, scrubbed and
patched our old clothes all the year
they are entitled to recreation and
although this chasing around takes
her and me from from home in the
hot summer time l am not kicking.
Go with her and help her enjoy her
visits is what ] do cheerfully. |
made a Sunday school speech up
there and told them of our magnifi-
cent Chautauqua building and of the
good times we are going 70 have at
tending it this summer. They
are coming from up there in great
numbers. Several attended from
there last summer and were we'll
pleased.
Tuesday morning Messrs. John
Harrison, Ham Moffett, j M Lam
caster, manager of the Ferris farms,
G. l.. Kidd, the nurseryman, and
this apostle met at the farm of
Flavius Davenport near Nash. Mr..
Davenport had recently been bring
ing some sample stalks of corn to
Waxahachie and claiming that ii
would YIELD from thirty-five TO forty
bushels to the acre. IhFee-fourths
of the people believed he was exag-
gerating. There is premium OF
fifty dollars offered by the Farmers
Congress for the best acre of black
land corn and Mr.. Davenport want
ed to enter his corn In this contest.
AS all the above named gentlemen
are going with us to the congress he
wanted them to look over his field
and make an estimate of It's yield.
We all arrived there at ten O'Clock
and proceeded To take look through
his hog lots and COW pens, whore we
saw thirty or forty fine registered
Berkshire hogs and several red
Durham calves. From here we
went TO his garden where his pear
trees are heavily loaded with fruit
not yet ripe. Peas were planted all
over the garden except where the