The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-07-14
FROM THE FIELD.

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many of the Central's coaches they
could not furnish us special. We
congressman leaving here on the
morning of the fifth it was impossi-
pie to get special car and decorate
il. A congressman from any where
on top side of the creators green
earth is a man entitled TO due re-
spect and he usually gets it and
when forty or fifty Ellis county far
mers (the most independent men in
the world work the best soil and
produce more cotton than the citi-
zens of any other county in the
world; when this class of men turn
congressman forty or fifty at a time
and start to congress they are en-
titled to the best of everything that
comes their way and outside of not
getting a special car we got it on
our last trip to the farmers con-
gress.
Those who went from Italy were
Joe Williams and wife, +. Lloyd, AL
bert Cornell, Joe Williams, Jr., Polk
Weathers, Andy Orme, w, }. Hes
ter, n. Beaver, w. f. Hester, Sam
Houser; Milford: A. l.. COnnally ;
Maypearl: f. J. McCarley, G. 6.
Brinley; Forreston: n. G. Pharis, J.
G. Tate, d. +. Calvert, wife and two
children; Avalon: Eugene Jenkins ;
Ferris: Charlie Weatherford, J. A.
Carpenter, c. f. Kooken, J. A.
Wicker and Il. l.. Green; WaXa-
hachie: j. NJ. Burkhead, f. f.
Owen, f. M. Hines, A. J. Dickson
who farms on his place, H NJ. Bur
Lesson, H. p. Mizell and his son
John, D. c. Mcmillan, F. J. r.
Davenport, J. H. Alexander, j. r.
Collins, o. A. Finley, w. O. An
drews and r. d. Hudson.
On account of rains and grassy
weedy crops not more than forty
attended from Ellis county this
year, but all who went enjoyed it to
the fullest extent and several who
went last year went again this year
and have to hear the first man
say yet that a trip to the farmers
congress is not worth the price.
Crops are fiuer than | ever saw
them all down the Central railroad
and after passing Corsicaua num-
bers of farmers got on at almost all
the stations and all reported more or
less boil weevils, but they are all
hopeful for a dry hot summer and
this with continued blowing they
say will lessen the ravages Of the
weevil. Something over 1850 far
mers and their wives and children
registered at the Congress this year.
The first thing / did when we reach
ed College Station was to break for
the main bulldog and theirs a clerk
registere the names OF our dele
CATION and assigned us a room each
and after showing us to our rooms
we were then free to go and see as
much as we possibly could. Some
thing over 1000 acres of land belongs
to this A. d NJ. College and every
nook and corner of it was open to
to each and every visitor
to the Congress. The state of Texas
together with the United States gov
eminent have spent hundreds and
thousands of dollars here in the
way of buildings and equipments to
the young men OF Texas in
every branch of learning that he
will possibly ever need IN all the re-
naming days of his life. One very
1ne two story building is just now
completed called the Textile Build
ing in which machinery will soon be
to make all kinds of cloth, /
in other words, hereafter we will not
have to send to Halifax or up north
to get man to run our cotton mills |
as we had TO do when the Waxa-
hachie and other cotton mills in
Texas were built. Boys from here
at home can now go to the A. Il M
College and there learn all the use
ful trades and at the same time get
a scientific education. This A. d
Nj. College S now full each and every /
session about fourteen different F.
ssociations meet here at the farm /
ers' Congress. The cotton growers
association, Of which Col, Peters is I,
president, the dairymen's associa-
ion, the horticultural association, (
he bee keepers association, swine /
breeders and many others too nu-
nervous to mention, and when all /
hese practical men from each and /
every section of Texas get together /
t is a ilne body of men and a man
Who keeps himself round up against
hem is sure to learn something Of
benefit to him. All these different
meet every morning
If the congress in different rooms
If the many buildings on the
grounds. Our Ellis cOuntians, NEST
IF them, met with the cotton grow