The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23
INNOCENCE TELLS ABOUT
Proceedings OF Farmers Institute
Meeting.

On account of the extremely busy
season of the year and farmers so
much behind with their work, the
attendance was not so large as the
two previous meetings. While 1
have heard good farmers and good
citizens sheer and make light re-
marks of Farmers Institute meet
ings, there are hundreds of men in
Ellis county who are friendly to the
farmers meetings, and whenever 1t
is possible attend these gatherings.
The program committe of the Insti-
tute here have been careful to put
none but practicle men on for adj
dresses, who have themselves sue
ceeded. There is nothing done or
said in these meetings but what is
to the uplifting of the farmer, for he
is the very backbone of the whole
business. When the farmers crops
fail we all have hard times and no
money. Then, in a meeting that
means good to him, WHY should he
make light of it? His ambition
should be to get into it and get all
the good possible out of it. Prof.
Connel, of Dallas who was at the head
of A. d Nj. College at Bryan for ten
. v cal - anu VIII 10 hAlp" il ~ bc olAt
Of the most practicle scientific men
in Texas IN agriculture, was the
first speaker. He said he had or
ganized farmers institutes in more
than fifty counties in Texas and our
first meeting here was the largest
and best attended of any he had met.
He gave encouraging reports from
farmers institutes all over Texas.
These meetings, he said, were put
ting the farmers on a higher plane
than ever before, and was helping
to put farming on a more profitable
basis. He said whenever you get
these praCticle, cOmmon-sense farm
ers together, discussing matters
pertaining to their welfare, INT
thing would happen. They would
make it happen to to their welfare.
The time, said he, was rapidly up
preaching when farming would he
classed along with the learned pro-
fessiOns. When farmers went TO
studying their business as doctors
and lawyers and others do, then
would it begin to pay better than the
professions and then would the
farmer begin to take a top seat,
where he ought to have been all the
time in the worlds history. More
than 800 scientific men in the United
States are paid by the Government
and by the different states in this
Government, who are constantly
making experiments and delving
into the mysteries Of farming.
These men, he said, were working
wonders in the knowledge they were
! giving constantly to the farmers of
the United States. He said a sponge
! uynulH mot ahEnrh W0faF 4ninEar
than a farmer would any practicle
improvement when placed before
him, and, said be, Texas State
Fair and the Farmers Congress
every summer at Bryan had already
been worth millions to the farmers
or Texas. A farmer TO succeed
well must, he said, get to these
places and study his business, see
the improvements in agricultural
methods and hasten to adopt them
himself. There are now books pub
lished on farm subjects that are
sold cheap, and the farmers, said
he, should buy them. 1t is getting
time of day, said he, that a man
must study to succeed, as well as
work. SO long as you work and
fail to study, the farmer, he said, !
would be a mud sill and the Good
Lord never intended this for him.
Mr.. r. +. Smith OF Grayson
county, the alfalfa king of Texas,
who has GOO acres of hal valuable
crop planted and is constantly plant
ingmore, was the next speaker. Mr..
Smith is a splendid talker. He has
made and is making lots Of money
out OF alfalfa and enjoys telling
his fellowmenh how be does 1t. Some
farmer in attendance brought his
girls and boys with him and Mr..
Smith in his opening remarks COM
pllmeuted this "a Said he The
wolf is not far away from the doors
or some of you cotton farmers and
II ls high time you were beginning
TO study some plan and drive him
of and the man who not only comes
himself to farmers meetings, but
brings his boys and girls, will reap
more benefit than the one who leaves
them at home. A big headed, big
listed boy frequently gives the old
man an idea he had not before (
thought Of in farming" Ii is high
time, he said, to get out of the
moon farming and bring boys up to
improved and up-to-date farming;
take them away from the soda foun-
tain and cigarette stands and many
other places worse than these that
are found in all the towns, or else
he would leave you entirely and
eventually go 10 the bad. He said
that most men who left the farm
and went TO town with their boys
made a m!stak, the majority of them
brought up in town y amounted
20 "A hill of beans, Alfalfa, he said,
was AS old as creation and IL was
the very best plant that old Noah
saved in the ark and when that good
man sowed il on earth il at once
begun unfolding it's purple blossoms,
shedding its fragrance and had
been a blessing To humanity ever
since and be said no doubt but that
the herds of Abraham and all the
old patriarchs fed on green, rich
alfalfa fields. Mexican boil weevil
and alfalfa, be said, have met here
on common ground, and alfalfa
would lift the mortgage that king
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