The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-02-20
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Report OF Proceedings OF Meeting
Last Week.
BY INN oCENCE ABROAD

found q good crowd present.
Uucle Snort is a good talker and
in few minutes speech he said he
thought Johnson grass ought not be
disturbed. 1t was a fine grass for
hogs and cattle and he had tried to
keep his sons from disturbing it on
his farm. While Uncle Snort talked,
Col. Jim Davis, the president, was
swelling up with a speech that did
not agree with Uncle SHORTS and
when he was through the president
called Mr.. Stiles to the chair again
and he proceeded to peel Uncle Snort
all the way up. Said he and his
neighbors had been fighting John
son grass all their lives and he was
opposed to any man who claimed il
was a blessing and sat down amid
shouts and laughter at Uncle SHORTS
expense, who arose and said If he
had gotten up a lively discussion he
was satisfied. But he still believed
the grass was good to have some of
it on a farm. Mr.. Bripdley said alfal-
"a was better and it could be gotten
rid Of when not wanted. Uncle Snort
got the worst of it, but took it good
uaturcdIy Mr. Buck Stiles next
spoke on our grain crops. He is
of the most successful farmers in it.
He said be had never made a speech
and all be knew how to do was to
tell how he farmed and DE did this
in plain practical way that all
understood. lie came 20 this coun.
~ years ago "A renter and he and his
sons now own fine farms . miles
west Of Waxahachie. In "A series OF
fifteen years, including the last two,
he has averaged 10 bushels of
wheat per acre. Made last year lIl,
Burns all trash from his land. Says
this may not be best for land bat IL
is better for wheat. Always plants
on stubble land or corn land. He
bad one field he planted continuously
in wheat for fifteen years. He new
er pastures his wheat. Sows
Bearded Mediterranean from the 9Th
to the 10th of October. Sows Ia
bushels to the acre. Burns all:trash,
breaks deep and sows with double
disc drill. The same applies TO oats
except that in the spring he sows
three bushels to the acre. Fall oats,
he said, do not fall down like spring
oats. He said he had never bought
a bushel of corn and in some modes
OF cultivation he did not agree with
Mr.. Finley. But the fact that nei
ther Of them had ever bought any
corn, even these dry years, show
they both understand the art OF cul-
tivating it. The last two years,
when nearly the whole county failed
on wheat, Mr.. Stiles made AZ
bushels To the acre. His mode OF
producing must have something to
do with il.
MIR. Mizell said he noticed Capt.
Getzendaner In the audience and as
he had succeeded at everything be
ever undertook, he would like
to hear from him. The Capt. came
forward and made a short talk-said
he thought by grading the roads
properly and draining them good
would be sufficient. But after his
speech this did not seem to be suff-
cient to satisfy this institute and a
great many so expressed themselves.
Piked roads with stone or gravel Is
all that will satisfy the great ma
jority OF Ellis county citizens now,
and they now see where they missed
it when they did not vote the tax to
build better roads, when they had
the chance few years ago.
Mr.. French then invited the eiti-
zens of Ellis county to come to FIT.
Worth to the fat stock show the 9Th,
9Th and 7th of March.
Afternoon session, secondary Mr..
J. NJ. Lancaster, manager of the big
Ferris farms, told how he and Mr..
Aubrey raised tcat immense crop of
beets, and his was IA fine paper. He
said where a farmer did not have
land to spare or suitable To sow
alfalfa on for hogs TO Craze on, beets
would, in "a measure, take the place
Of alfalfa. Beets would supply, In
large measure, the nutriment con
tanned in the alfalfa, aud in his
opinion, beets would prevent hog
cholera. Mr.. Autrey's wife was
sick and Mr.. Lancaster explained
how these 20 tons were raised, and
he has an article in this weeks En-
terprise as to the Kind Of seed TO
plant, when to plant, how to plant
and how TO cultivate.
Fruit growing, by &. l.. Kidd, the
nuTseryman, of Waxahachie, was
the next address. There is not in
Texas, a-man who understands fruit
growing on the black land better
than Mr.. Kidd, and he is an honest,
upright man too. There is nothing,
ne SdAu liidl &AAOAC ~ AllN
health and happiness of a family
than good orchard. Mr.. Kidd
made a fine talk. Next, all dressed
up, came F. j. II. Davenport, on
bee culture. He has l75 gums and
has sold in one year, over seven
hundred dollars worth of honey and
he of course is capable ofinstructiug
on this subject. He devoted the
principal part of his talk to the
diseases of bees. He too, is an all
around, successful farmer. He too,
never bought corn and raises lots of
fine hogs. Presiding Elder Sensa-
baugh, who was present, was next
called on for talk and he showed
himself well up on bees-said he
kept or s stands to furnish his
table and pay the expense OF keep
ing them.
Mr.. French, the Fort Worth man,