The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-07-04
FROM THE FIELD.

NOAsA $3.50
On my trip to the Onward com
munity last week / inspected some
OF the wheat grown by j. Rape of
that community and several OF his
neighbors. Mr.. Rape has claimed
for this wheat now for several years
that ii was superior to any wheat
he had ever grown land he plants
every year. and this dry season, ne
SAYS. has proved beyond doubt
that Ii is far superior to any other
wheat grown in Ellis county. Write
to j Rape, Midlothian, and he will
give our readers all the informa-
tion on this fine grain.
Since the rain we are all feeling
better, there is now hope OF max
ing a cotton crop and also OF max
ing some feed crops and / never saw
so many farmers at work planting
sorghum corn and all kinds of stun
that will keep life in brute during
the cold stormy winter that is al
most sure to follow this hot dry
summer. Mr.. Pete Rape was cut
ting, sweating and shocking his
corn and said it was moonshine
feed but il would beat a snow bank
in protecting a COW in the cold win
ter blasts. Since the glorious rain,
which revived the spirits OF the
people as much or more than 1t did
the cotton crop, which was all there
was left of the field crops to revive,
we have had % or 30 good citizens
to sign for our excursion to the
farmers congress at Bryan and
more will yet go with us. We ex-
pect to get at least IS or 20. 1t will
take that many to fill the car. Only
81. rs for the round trip. The con-
gress lasts three days and If we
stay there the whole time at one
dollar a day board, the whole eX-
pense of the trip need not exceed
$500, the actual expenses are 1919
for round trip passage and board. L
was there last summer and know
whereof | speak, when / say a
farmer cannot spend money that
will be of more benefit to him than
trip to this meeting of farmers.
There were more than 800 farmers
in attendance there last summer
from every section of Texas and l
did not see man who regretted his
Nip and said be was coming back
|ehis summer and bring all his
'friemds 'ndl neighbors be could in
dt<e to a%me.. Full instructions
will be given in next weeks Enter
prise as 60 the time for those who
are going with us to appear in
Waxahachie ready for the trip.
took Mac Rutherford out to his
home Monday night on Red Oak
creek near Rocket. He was in
Waxahachie serving on the jury
and got off for the evening. Upon
arriving at his home | put him out
and crossed the creek TO Mr.. Will
Callens'. There | met him and Mr.,
A. G. Prude and both agreed to 60
with us to the Farmers Congress.
w. B. Rutherford, another good cit
izen of the Rocket community, and
Geo. Callens will also go, making
five or six from up there who Will
go on the big excursion. Mr.. ). u
Wadley, from over near Palmer has
attended for several years and he
will surely go this time if he can.
Mr.. Rutherford remarked as We
iourneyed out to his place that there
were some ripe peaches in the top OF
tall tree and they We're mine IT
could get them. / hurried back, fed
the three thousand dollar horse out
of crib that contained more than a
hundred bushels of corn, and when
this was done / quickly asked him
if there was anything else / could
do; if not / would proceed to climb
that peach tree. Quickly he escort
me to his peach orchard and with
out climbing l found several trees
heavily laden with ripe peaches and
my work was fast and furious, noi
did l stop till Mac kept on insisting
that supper was ready and pleaded
with me to let up on his fruit, that
his wife and children might have
some left. Mac built him two sto-
nv $4,000 house here two years age
and il sets on a high point on the
west bank on Red Oak creek and
overlooks nearly 800 acres of land
he owns out here. His father, Mr.
Nose Rutherford, was one of the
most popular county commissioners
Ellis county ever had. His mott er
who enjoys splendid health, resides
with him and looks much younger
than her years. Said she and hei
husband settled on this tract of lane
before the war. Mac is good rus
tier and a good financier. He viii.
go with us on our big excursion ano
| learn more about how to farm.
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