The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-26

month late, and then on almost
every farm there Is more or less OF
the crop a poor stand. The hrst
blowing after the winter rams dried
the land out and in many sections
of Ellis county there has not fallen
sufficient rain since to bring cotton
up, unless it fell Sunday night, the
DIST. There are hundreds of acres
of cotton in this county not yet up
and in these dry sections, which en-
braces good large scope Of Ellis
county, the corn is also poor
stand. Is quite small and 1t does
not look to me like it can ever yield
much Of a crop.
| went down to Forreston last
Tuesday and at the forks of the
Nash and Ferreston roads, four
miles south of Waxahachie, | stop
ped and Inspected the spring oat
crop of Mr.. Garrett, who rents the
Wheatlv farm. JnO. Stewart was
cutting them with his binder as low
as 1t was possible, to get them at all,
and it did not seem TO me that sheep
| shears could have cut then any
| closer than Stewart was cutting
them with his binder. Mr.. Jenkins
on an adjoining farm had moved
| his spring oats and he and Mr.. Van
| treese, who rents on ex-COunty
| Clerk Lasswell's farm, were baling
| them. This is all fine land and with
| ordinary seasons should have made
at least fifty bushels of spring oats
| TO the acre But with the drouth
| they will not get twenty-five bushel
| to the acre. On down this ForrestOn
road | turned off few hundred
yards to the right to the farm of
| Andy Thompson who owns farm
| close to kipling Switch. He was
preparing to 20 to Wyatt where he
! and r. X Ward and Jim Curry own
! "A fine thresher and Mr.. Thompson
was going To start this machinery
Iup. He said the wheat crop in
| the Wyatt and Venus country was
| good and their machine had a good
run ahead of him. {, T. Newlaud is
on the Forreston road with good
| farm and he works 1t successfully.
| He has good wife, who helps him
take care of his good cows and
what he makes Mr.. Newland is In
| partnership with an "Arkansawyer
| named BOhannon this year and this
will keep up his good luck. | knew
| Bohann0n in the good old state OF
Arkansaw and know that ne is the
pure Arkansaw stuff, made out OF
| Arkansaw dirt and he Will WORK.
Brice West who made the race for
| sheriff, owns a farm on this road
and he, too, will work and is not
afraid 10 work and is a successful
farmer. J w. Mccoy also chews
his tobacco and works like thunder
all the time lie owns a farm and
also rents Elmo Smiths farm VINO
IL ..1,E - b af.I
routes out of Forreston. This place
has had two rural routes for the
past year On the first of July
! Waxahachie will have six routes
established. This rural freee deliv-
cry is one OF the greatest accommo-
datiOns the government ever gave
TO the farmer. To have his paper
brought to his gate or TO his box
not far from his home the day 1t is
printed is certainly a big thing for
him. In the busy spring and fall
seasons many farmers do not take
time to 20 after their mail every
week, bat now the delivery man
brings his mail 10 him every day in
a great many sections of Ellis coun-
lty. Free routes are at Midlothian
and ForrestOn has free routes snd
the delivery man comes into this
county from Venus on the west and
now Waxahachie will have six
routes July ! and / do hope soon to
see free routes from every town In
Ellis county. The Enterprise is do
ing its best 10 get free routes for all
its readers. | arrived in Forreston
Just before night and Mr.. VIM
crawled into my buggy and told me
to drive To his house, one mile east
and he fed nv horse on Alfalfa hay.
II 10 bad "a few acres of il and says
it is the finest feed for hogs he ever
had and lust as good for every other
kind of stock. Mrs. VIM, also,
ted me on hams produced on this
farm. When farmer has alfalfa
he can raise his meat VT ether he
makes "A corn crop or not, Mr.. Winu
owns nearly 200 acres here and was
offered seventy five dollars per acre
for IL few years back. His oldest
son has been keeping books for a
furniture house in Dallas for sever
al years and is getting one hundred
IA month. Mrs. Bruce, their oldest
daughter, was a school teacher when
Joe Bruce married her. All their
children have quick, bright minds
but their youngest daughter, little
Flora, four years old last January,
can repeat by memory, ten or fifteen
pieces Of poetry and some OF them
long pieces. Her mother learned
her Negroes In the White House, ~
published some time ago in the En-
terprise, and it is amusing the way
she can now repeat it. She and hei
brother and sister older than her
self are committing TO memory
speeches to say Children's Day al
FOTreston soon, and little Flora
knows their speeches as well As
! she does her own. Mr.. Spurlock
the gin man, at Forreston, also
buys grain Iand he received bis
first wheat while / was there anC
said he never saw IN Ellis County
better developed grains OF wheal
than we have this spring. Mr.
Spurlock also sells wagons
buggies and hardware. He II
, a clever man and treats the people
right and has their confidence.
Capt. Forrest who settled here OIL
Chambers Greek, away before TN.
war and for whom this place wal
, named, is yet pretty stout mar
for his age and no better man eve
| lived In any country.