The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-23
FROM THE FIELD.
BY INNoc ENCE ROAD

On the fifth and sixth of Novem-
Der, just the next day after the gem
eral election, there will meet in the
courthouse in Waxah ACHE farmers
from all over Ellis county for the
purpose of organizing a farmers
institute and great many are com
ing. Each and every farmer who
possibly can from every section of
Ellis county is invited to be nel G
on those two days and learn some
thing about his business of farming
that he possibly had not thought of
before. Prof. Mally who has been
with the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal college at Bryan for the past ten
years and who has made the Next
can boil wevil and the green bugs a
special study now for several years,
will be here to give us his experience
in DISCRIMINATING and fighting these
dreaded pests that have done so
much damage to the cotton and wheat
of this county for the past few years
/ heard him at the Farmers Congress
this ear and / do know he will give
our farmers and idea an how to
fight these insects that will be of
benefit to them if they will only
come out To near MN.
An old cotton planter who writes
for the Dallas News and Farm and
Ranch and who is one of the most
successful farmers in Collin county
will also be here to make speeches
on different subjects. He is a splen-
did talker and a sensible man. Prof.
Cornell, the president of the Farm
ers' Congress and who was director
of the experimental station at the a.
d Nj. college for ten years, viii also
be here and to hear him alone is
worth any farmers time spent in
coming to Waxahachie on that
day. There will also be several
other speakers here who will interest
all who come to hear them and
when YOU join the farmers institute
then you will have bulletins issued
from the experimental station at
Bryan and also from the agricultur-
ial department Mt Washington.
These bulletins will be mailed TO
the members of the institute from
time to time.
Mr.. w. NJ. Roger, practical
farmer from north OF Waxahachie,
said to me recently that some man
at the Dallas fair last fall put his
II anne hcWh SiIu iinN bSSA
him these bulletins now for "A year
and said he would not take one
hundred dollars for the information
he has gotten out them. There is
no particular interest to the ENTER
PRISE or to me personally to have
farmers come here to this meeting
the fifth and sixth, but we do know
il they do come they will be inter
ested and learn somethingfrom these
scientific men that will save dolla' =
to their pockets.
II / do not go out at least once a
week to breathe good fresh country
air, eat good chuck and while doing
this gather news and dollars for our
paper, / do not enjoy good health
and at this season of the year most
especially Is it necessary for me to
go. Our subscribers who have been
reading our paper for year want to
pay for it, and when you come to
Waxahachie and don see me go TO
the office. We must have this sub
scription you owe in the fall season
or else we suffer. Our expenses in
paper, ink and paying men to set
type is enormous and these bills
must be paid or we bust and If our
subscribers tall go pay their sub
scriptions then W. ale trouble.
1t is a small amount for any one
subscriber, but when you take five
thousand of them then il is big
thing to as and it takes lots of money
to run that many subscribers and
give them good paper like We do
in the fall OF the year. We too owe
money that has to be paid. No man
minds paying one dollar "a year for
a paper he and his family are inter
ested in.
At Midlothian we have an inn
mense big list Of readers and mp
there | roasted two or three days
last week. AT Sardis | stopped at
DR.. Poplin's. He il a bachelor and
lives in a big house all by himself.
He is good looking and has a fine
practice and why he don't catch on
to some good looking girl, can not
tell. Uncle Bob Mayfield, the oldest
settler in Ellis county, lives close
by Sardis. He has been in poor
health for some time. On this road
further up towards Midlothian w
w. WitherspoOu and his brother j !.
Y. are feeding 40 head of beef cattle.
These cattle came from the Indian
Territory and are in good condition
to begin with. Mr.. Witherspoon has
one of the pretuest wheat fields /
have seen this fall and it will soon
be fine grazing Uncle Sam Garvin,
one of the oldest settlers In the
Midlothian country recently sold his
farm and moved to Hereford, Deaf
Smith county; several have recently
moved from up here to that Pan
Handle country. | drove over east
of Midlothian and spent the night
with Uncle Joe Kelley family. He
was away III Haskell county buying
beef steers to feed. | did not know
it till | got there and Mrs. Kelley
and her splendid family Of two
nephews and one niece and two
daughters entertained me all right.
Miss Minnie, her daughter, has
beea cripple since she was six years
old, but she Is just ~ cheerful as q