The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-06-10
Big NURSERIES
~Iansceaee Caaiinaes he Account 81 Is
Trip 10 fckianey md Sherman,

Collin county has about ak thous-
and inhabitants, almost as large as
Waxahachie. Tom Perkins, the
editor of the Mckinney Gazette, is
q ~jovial, jolly fellow and he would
have me go with him to his home.
He lives close in to the public
square and his house and it's fur
nishings are easily worth Eve or six
thousand dollars. 1t lis elegant for
a newspaper man TO live in. Tom
is running for the Legislature up
there and 1 hope he will be elected.
I think he is qualified. He Is a
nephew of ex-countv Commissioner
Tom Martin of Palmer. There are
many elegant homes In Mckinney.
The people here show that they are
prospecting from the magnificent
black land that surrounds them.
The -four mills here are among the
largest in the state and Mr.. e. w.
Kirkpatrick Is president of the COM
pany that owns them. After taking
in Mckinney for one night and
most of the next day Mr.. j. r..
Mayhem, Mr.. Kirkpatrick and N.Y.
self boarded q train for Sherman
where the Texas Nursery Company
own another nursery plat of land
covered with large trees of every de-
scription, every kind of an ornamen-
tai tree imaginable, together with
two million more fruit trees and q
plat of land of ten acres Is covered
with rose buds of every hue and
color known to human vision, be-
sides hot houses that cover at least
q quarter of an acre, and they too
are full of all kinds of flowers for
sale. / have all my life loved flow
ers and here while the directors of
these Texas nurseries held their an
nual meeting / wandered among the
roses and hot houses alone and
Toasted on sweet perfumes and Wis
ions of acres of roses for nearly
two hours. They are here by the
millions and they are cheap and il
the citizens of Texas don't have
nice shrubbery in their yards, pretty
flowers in their houses and fine fruit
trees in their orchards it is because
of their W neglect and their w
fault. Mr.. Mayhem of Waxahachie
not only rustles himself to sell all
this stuff hat brings comfort, hap
piness and health to the families of
Texas, but be also has 80 or 40 men
under him going to the homes of
Texans and trying to induce them
to buy. 1t Is a very little outlay of
money TO beautify and sdorn your
homes with nice shrubbery in the
yards and peach trees in the or
chards and it all pays back four
hundred fold for you and when you
go to offer your farm for sale pretty
flower yards and nice orchards add
many dollars to the value of your
farms, and also to homes in towns
and cities. This is certainly one of
the most delightful trips of my life.
This company also owns q big nur-
sery at Durant, / T., which is a
few miles north of Denison. Mr..
formed me thai they would have
this fall from all three of their
nurseries four million trees to sell.
1t rained heavily the night we
stayed in Sherman and we turned
back. Did not get to the Indian
Territory, and at Sherman we
spent a pleasant night at the home
of Mr.. Mayhew's mother. A Young
brother Of his is general superin-
tendeut Of all their big nurseries
and he is a young man of good BUSH
ness ability. The board of directors
at this meeting, after declaring II
dividend Of 10 per cent, raised his
SALARY. Our Mr.. Mayhem is also q
stakeholder and drew has divy, De-
sides wages for extra work,
The rain prevented our going out
from Sherman seven miles to the
big alfalfa farm, but / went to Col.
X. r. Smiths office. He said when
/ entered his office; zone hundred
acres oil alfalfa now lies OF the
ground taking this big rain, but II
1t clears of / will yet make good
hav of it. Tell your people iu Ellis
County that alfalfa hay will never
rot 10 the extent of losing it, don't
care how much rain falls on H.
Haul it to the barn lot, stack II and
winter feed 1t and stock will DO
we'll on it Hundreds Of Graysou
and Collin county farmers are uow
growing alfalfa and each and every
OF them is delighted with Il as
A feed crop. Wagon loads Of u
'ould be seen from Mr.. smiths
ttilCe window and he said 'see
what / have done. I now have com