The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-02-18

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Ijourning for dinner j. ". Russell,
O. A. Finley and Uncle Snort and
others spoke OF the necessity Of
each and every farmer In Ellis
le6unty working to make success
Of this institute.
In the afternoon Mr.. G. G. French,
representing the Fl. Worth stock
yarda. spoke and told of the great
advantage the new packing houses
there would be to the farmers of
Texas. He said when lard was high
the packeries would want big hogs
that would yield lard. He said they
wanted o broad back, short nosed
hog with q heavy ham that runs
down close to the hoof. A hog with
as small a bone as possible and all
the meat you could get on him. He
said all the best breed of hogs
had their good points and q farmer
that would raise from any good
stock and keep them fat and thrifty
would make money. The packeries
would soon be in full operation
and then there would be no such
thing as supplying the demand for
hogs and cattle and he said that the
description he had given. of hogs ap-
piled to cattle. Only the best breeds
would pay. Mr.. French said that
he recently visited the largest hog
ranch in the world in New Mexico,
where they kept a thousand brood
sows and fed them altogether on
alfalfa and kaftir corn. The kaffir
corn was ground and soaked and by
actual scientific test ninety bushels
of kaffir corn was found to be equal
to one hundred bushels of Indian
/ "A L.. r.,
| ought to do well here Plant moth
| ing but the dwarf variety. Milo
Maize was also very fine and in
some sections of the west 1T was
considered better than kaffir corn.
| Mr.. French said on that big hog
ranch they cut the alfalfa and put
| the hay up and fed it to their hogs
/ in winter, Just the same as We do
our horses and cows and they did
well on alfalfa cured hay. He said
that the history of packeries in the
north was that they invariably paid
the best prices the market would
afford. The packeries, he said 4,
could not afford to put hundreds Of
| thousands OF dollars into plants
such as they have built in TT. Worth
and then go TO juggling the farmers
out of every cent they could. For
the packeries to do this would be to
kill the goose that lays their golden
| eggs. Mr.. French is an old Texan
was once "A cowboy on the plains and
his straightforward, practical talks
were greatly appreciated by the in
| stitute. In the afternoon Col. Thos.
J. Middleton, editor of the Mirror,
delivered an address on the subject
| of good roads and twas pronounced
by all who heard it a splendid effort.
He said among other good things
that judging from our roads we, the
people of Ellis county, would belong
! to the half civilized tribes of man
kind. His speech showed that he
had given the subject thought and
study. At this stage % theImeeting
| President Davis was called away
and VIM. Stiles, vice president, wac
called to the chair and ex-Commis-
sioner J. T. Johnston readthls paper
| on potato culture. Mr.. johnston is
quite "A large man Weighing gross
| over 800 pounds and he placed a
| chair in front OF the audience and
occupied 1t while he read his paper
and il was good. He was asked
many questions as to his methods
| He too is among the most success
/ ful farmers OF Ellis county. The
next paper read was by ex-Commis-
sioner o. A. Finley, on the subject
of corn culture. He stated in the
| outset that he had been in Ellis
county % years and had never yet
| bought a bushel OF corn, nor would
| he have any of 1t TO buy this year.
/ His paper was good and he had IA
sack full of specimens Of June corn.
| He raised over POO bu shsls this sea
son that was fine indeed, and after
| he had finished his talk this corn
was closely inspected and lively
! discussion was engaged In by many
| of the big crowd present and / never
knew before that farmer could 20
too far north for his seed corn. One
man present said that several years
/ ago he brought seed corn from Ken
! lucky that yielded 70 bushels TO the
acre up there and he planted this
along side of his native Texas corn
and 1t only yielded u or IL bushels
| to the acre while his Texas corn
made % to 60 bushels to the acre, and
| IL many of our farmers of Ellis
county, nearly all of whom have
their seed corn to buy this year,
don't look out they will go too far
north for their seed. 1t was brought
out here from men who had tried Ii
that 1t would not do to plant seed
corn from farther north than the
Indian Territory. Worlds of infor-
nation was given by this corn dis
cussion alone.
ITO ha continued