The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-08-06

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
When the onion man had finished
another old Texan from the sand
lacks of Smith county was placed
on the rostrum for speech ana he
placed on the table in front of him
an Elberta peach as large as your
fist and remarked when he did this
that when he preached he took u
text and for fear he would depart
from his text, he would place it
where it would always be in sight,
and begun his sermon by stating 10
the audience that he was an old
Texan and so well did he love her
that he married girl named IeNas
and while forty years of married
life and raising "a large family OF
children had worn away some OIL
her beauty she was grand sweet
old girl vet. and for the first time in
thirty wears she had left home ana
come with him to the congress and
she was having a big time. SAID
he had sold over one hundred dol
lars worth of tomatoes oil one acre
and his peach orchard was laden
with such fruit as the sample before
him, and these articles were max
ing him more money than he ana
his old woman could spend. Said
he honestly and candidly believed
that his orchard and truck patches
Law right on the ruins Of the garden
of Eden, said he tive have all the
fruits and more than are mentioned
in the Bible as growing in that IA
vored land prepared by the Al
mighty for Adam and Eve ana
said he, 1.-THE Bible speaks OF rivers
that ran through Eden, we have the
rivers He was indeed "A rare
character and interested that large
audience. A citizen who takes up
any special line of farming and sue
ceeds at it, may and does possibly
become little cranky on that sub
ject, and while this may be the case,
other men, when this successful
one gets on the stand, by question
ing him, get practical ideas that
can be used TO adv antage.
There were hundreds of sun
Drowned men in attendance down
there who do the work themselves
with their own hands that gives
them good bank accounts and that
is what counts when it comes to
measuring mans success. That
onion man had put So 10000 in the
bank in one season.
The Grayson county crank on
alfalfa was there. He was a
wealthy man named Smith and that
crowd kept him busy answering
questions for an hour or more.
This man had six hundred acres
planted in alfalfa and said he would
this fall plant 400 acres more. His
farm was a rich loamy black land,
and he said 1t yielded him twice as
much in alfalfa as 1t had ever done
i'm anything else he had ever planted
it in. He said there was no such
thing as supplying the demand for
good alfalfa hay, and also that 1t
made no difference how much 1t
rained on this hay after he had cut
1t, he kept turning 1t over till it fin
ally dried and then put the damaged
hay up to itself and fed 1t to his
own stock and it seemed to him to
be Just as nutritious as the bright
hay. He gave an instance of dump
ing several tons of injured alfalfa
hay into big gulley to stop the
wash and after this hay had lain
there for several months, he turned
a lot of beef cattle in this alfalfa
field and the cattle at once discoy-
cred this hay he thought was spoiled
and they never ate anything else
till 1t was all gone, and these cattle
fattened like pigs on it. After pas
turing q field severely and tramping
the alfalfa almost to death he said
he rejuvenated his land and plants
by running disc pillow over IL which
seemed to ruin it, then harrow 1t
down and this would give the alfal-
fla new life, and 1t would grow as
first planted. This man told some