The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-02-18
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Report Of Proceedings OF Meeting
Last Week.
BY INNoC RNoE ABROAD

other branches of industry, there are.
men who are 'sot in their ways
and to talk to them of changing
would be ali insult. The successful
farmer of today, is the one who
reads, who experiments, who profits
by the experience of others. In farm
| ing as in all other callings, great
| progress has been made, and the
fellow who is "sot in his way" and
won't try to keep up with the pro-
cession is going to be left behind.
The Mexican boil weevil is worse
than crab grass, Johnson grass.
cockleburs or anything the farmer
| has ever before had to contend with,
and the one who does not try to fight
and stand him off is mighty sure to
| have a short crop next fall. But
Mr.. Boil Weevil came in for a very
short discussion in this meeting.
| Enough has probably been said re-
garding him to put each and every
man on his guard who intends pay
|
by those who have been fighting the
weevlls.
The meeting was called TO order
at half past ten O'Clock Thursday
morning by Col. J. S. Davis, the
president. On account of the bad
condition of the roads and the
weather clearing up enabling farm
ers to work, kept a great many away
and while there were not so many
in attendance as at the first meeting,
yet there was good crowd and from
almost every section of the county.
After a fervent and appropriate
prayer by Uncle Snort, and reading
| of minutes of last meeting by Secre-
tary G. E. Wood, of Italy, a report
from the program committee was re-
ceived, and this report was that the
! speakers from a distance who had
been invited were attending the
state meeting at Austin. The presI-
dent in introducing Maj. w. T. NJ.
| Dixon of Milford, who was first on
I r. DIXON
| had been in Texas longer than any
| body, possibly something like "A
! hundred years, and the Majors
reply was that Col. Davis was not
| far away when he landed. Major
Dixon helped to organize the first
| farmers congress at Bryan several
| years ago and helped to write the
! first bylaws and constitution gov
erning the farmers institutes and
! said he was proud TO state TO this
meeting that there was now in Texas
! several hundred farmers institutes
| welding an influence at home and
| abroad in the interest OF farmers
| that had never before been felt by
the outside world. Farmers at last,
| said he, are catching the spirit of
! progress and now like bankers and
! doctors and other professions, has "A
| school he can attend and learn the
best things his neighbors from
other sections of his country have
| proven out in their experiments.
No politics, no religious subjects
are discussed here nor never would
be, said he. This is simply a school
to learn more about the farmers
business and protect his interests.
After Major Dixon's speech a letter
- D.
is now in Washington City, stating
that his wife had accompanied him
there and was sick, preventing
his returning In time for this meet
ing. Col. Peters also stated In his
letter that he had succeeded in get
ting congress to raise their appro-
priation fifteen thousand dollars
more than they had contemplated In
helping TO exterminate the pests
that are doing so much damage to
the cotton crop OF Texas. Col.
Peters owns farms near Cal
vert and so destructive have the
Mexican boil weevils been to his
cotton crops and those Of that sec
tiOn that he went 10 the city OF
Washington last year TO get the de-
partment of agriculture to send an
expert TO his section to see. an ex-
pertinent OF some other crops that
section would grow TO take the
place of cotton and he Is proud in
deed of getting this appropriation
raised.
G.. e. Brindley of Eyrie, one of the
successful farmers of the western
part Of the county, was called on for
talk. He has made money out of
his hogs and said in one year he had
sold as high as fourteen hundred
dollars worth of hogs and although
the last two years had been hard
ones on hog raisers, he had managed
with the help Of his p acres of alfalfa
TO sell hogs every year and Me IN
tended eventually 70 put IN one
hundred acres in alfalfa. TO raise
hogs successfully, be said Won must
keep green grazing for them as near
all the time as possible. AT this
stage Of the meeting r. J II. Daven- |
port came ia al dressed up 1t took |
his wife some time to get all the
good clothes on him, aud he like TO |
have missed the first days meeting.
Mr.. Jno. Harrison of Nash, was
next called on, but said il was Inn