The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-11-12

vate in the old way, bad not made
bale to 20 and 30 acres. One man
said be had known good crops made
by blowing and cultivating the land
well all winter, then plant an early
kind of seed and cultivate it well all
summer. The fact is the gist of the
whole boil weevil experiments in
trying to produce cotton in weevil
districts is to plant early as possible
of an early kind; give distance aad
then cultivate thoroughly all sum-
rner.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
from Washington, was at Dallas
and made is a speech in which he
said that all the help his department
could fornish towards making cot
ton and experimenting with this pest
would be done.
DR.. w. d. Hunter, bug expert,
has been at Victoria for two years
and this year has several hundred
acres in different sections of Texas
under his immediate control but
said he had never succeeded in kill
ing the weevil. But by planting
! early and following other cultural
methods he would this year make
fair cotton crops under his charge
and 1t was proven very conclu sively
up there at Dallas that despite this
dreaded pest, let him be ever so
numerous, we can still make some
cotton, but we cannot do il when
the weevils get thick If we con-
| tinue to plant 40 TO 60 acres to one
hand. We must cut this big acre
/ age down so you you can cultivate
more thoroughly and If need be pick
| the squares and burn them. Prot.
Nj allry told us this a year ago
when he was here and lots of farm
ers said they would qnit raising cot
ton when il come to the point where
they had to do that. Ii these pests
ever get thick in Ellis county Ike
they are now in some counties all
south of us, some change will be
compelled TO be made to produce
cotton or we will be forced out Of
business by going broke and the
good Master knows my heart |
don't want To see my Ellis county
friends In the condition my Free
stone and Limestone friends are in
this winter and the only plan see s
now before you are both to get on the
safe side of the fence, plant less cot
ton and more Of something else, and
rlaut nothing but the earliest cotton.
Col. Jim Davis says he made one
thousand dollars clear this year by
Buying and planting the earliest cot
ton he could get last spring and
almost every man who bought the
early seed last spring is well pleased.
Gov. Jester of Corsicana, who was
chairman of the Dallas convention,
said AS result OF iast winters boil
weevil convention in Dallas. of
hiRh fhnTa Ynf1Rh m Oh.
he went home from that convention
and while he did not then believe the
weevils would ever eat up the high
rolling prairie lands of Navarro
county, he concluded after getting
home the safe thing to do was TO
send north and get early seed, cOnse-
.quently several car loads OF early
seed was shipped into COrsicana
and this was the only cotton raised |
In his section, of any consequence |
this fall, and now | do not want our |
Ellis county farmers imposed on in |
the matter OF buying these seed and |
/ give IA the names uf several |
reliable dealers in seeds you can !
write to yourselves. DR. b. w. !
kilgure, Raleigh, North Carolina, |
Who Is IN the employ of the United |
states government experimental sta |
u0u there. B r. Hawkins, MONA, |
Georgia, is the man +. j. K. Daven- |
port, OF Nash, secured his seed from |
aud they proved all @. Is Geo. w |
Truitt, LaGrange, Ga. FRUITS IL |
a big boil cotton and he said at Dali |
las he had gathered 81 bales from |
80 acres in the month OF August in |
Georgia. Now our readers can |
write 20 these firms and make their |
own deals for seeds. From all | |
could learn all of the above named |
gentlemen are perfectly reliable. |
So many OF our farmers in the last |
few years nave sold their seed to |
the oil mills and then when spring |
came have gone and bought whatever |
seed they could get hold Of. There |
is no doubt but that "A great MOTOR |
ity OF the seed ia the country have |
deteriOrated greatly. A scientific |
government expert who has been |
studying what we call alkali in the |
land which is now causing so
much cotton TO die throughout the |
the country said he had gathered |
the seed from few stalks in the |
alkali spots that did not die and
planted them on the worst alkali
spots he could hnd and this seed
grew cotton e. great perfection aud
from this he is prOpagating a cot
tou that will resist the alkali and
grow and make. Sorghum, he said,
was the best crop 70 plant on the
alkali spots To take il out Of the
land. There was a large delegation
from Ellis county mp there and
John III arrison said IL was the best
meeting he ever attended 20 get the
Information be wanted. MIR Dayen-
port was there with several stalks
of hts Georgia Hawkins cotton that
attracted great deal of attention.