The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-26
Farmers Institute Meeting.


in Texas have such men, and each
of them is an expert in the land bus s.
mess and well versed in scientific
farming, the raising of fruits and
vegetables and other farm products
profitable to the roads in freights
They have found that it pays to
have these men to travel over their
lines and induce people coming to
Texas to settle near their lines and
engage in profitable farming. None
but the very best talent is employed
bv the roads for this work, and these
industrial agents in Texas are now
taking a live interest ia the Organi.
cation aud lnaintainance of the
Farmers Institutes throughout
Texas. If the country along any
line OF railroad fails to make a crop
that line suffers it's proportion of
loss by reason of such failure. Mr..
Stanley Watson. industrial agent of
the Houston aud Texas Central, was
at our meeting on the 18th and eX-
planned all this TO us in plain,
practical way, that all understood.
Said ne, if your crops fail from any
cause we suffer as much as Won do.
Then why should not the railroad
represent be interested ia your wei
fare? You suffer first, said he, and
we next, and COL sequently the roads
are furnishing free nspoTtation
over their lines to all the govern
meut experts who travel over the
state to meet with these farmers in
stitutes, organize and instruct the
farmers of Texas on what they have
learned toward eXterminating the
boil weevil and raising cotton in
spite of him. Said he: II wish
this meeting success and that you
Ellis county farmers may continue
prosperous and happy
Mr.. Peeler, Industrial agent of
the \ atv sent q telegram saving
that on account of other and pressing
business he was unable To be pres
ent, and expressing his regrets.
The whole world is stirred up over
the destruction the boil weevii is
doing in Texas. The cotton mills of
England, Germany and other cOuu-
tries, are troubled over il and the
cotton mills north and south in this
cOuutry. which have millions Of
dollars invested n machinery for
making cloth, are now fearful that
II the weevIl continues to spread as
rapidly as they have Ia the past,
that the day is not far distant when
all this machinery, or part OF it,
at least, both here and IN the old
world, will be standing idle. Should
the weevil continue TO spread as
rapidly as they have the last few
years it will be calamity. not only
to the people who produce cotton,
bat to the millions employed In the
mills. Cotton furnishes employ
ment to more people than any other
product Of the world, and hereto
fore the man who raised 1t probably
got less out of it than any one of
the many who handled it, but if
present prices continue and the
farmer can succeed in raising good
crops of the staple he will begin To
make back what he has been losing
all these years Of low prices. |
hope the good Master will grant our
Ellis county farmers prosperity
from now on.
Every farmer in Ellis county,
whether he assigned land to be
worked under the direction of the
government experts or not, should
encourage his neighbOr who did so
subscribe These directions will
be only such as have been tried in
South Texas and found successful
in producing cotton despite the
weevil.
Mr.. Jim Carson, who was raised
on Grove Greek, north of Waxa-
hachie, and graduated at the A d
NJ College many years ago, and
who proved himself so apt and ex-
pert in his studies that he was given
direction of the big farm at the Col
lege, was the next speaker. He
said he knew whereof be spoke
when he said the best farmers in the
United States were in Ellis county,
and said that his old friend, with
whom he was raised, Osce Good
win, told him that day that the far
mers Of Ellis county were now pos
SCISSORS of the biggest bank &C
counts they ever had, and said he,
we have come, not to teach you, but
possibly TO learn something, and
give you our experiences in lighting
boil weevils and raising cotton in
spite of them. Mr.. Carson said the
newspaper was the best friend the
farmer had in giving the informa-
ton needed on every subject. He
said ii had been found by actual
test that a boil weevil could not be
poisoned, and that some expert
mathematician had figured ont that
one pair of weevils could produce In
one season twenty million bugs to
eat cotton. The best way to fi0ht
them, was to pick up the first
squares that fall off and burn them,
break the land early, harrow aud
plow it often during the winter
months, use little fertilizer to
make cotton mature and open
quickly, and plant early northern
seed. Said he planted last year on
the experimental farm at the Col
lege twenty-five different varieties
of northern seed, and that he had
found the Hawkins, Shines, Row
den, and in fact most all of his
northern seed had yielded we'll, pro-
ducing from 400 to 1900 pounds per
acre right where the boil weevils
were as thick as fleas in a sand bed.
But this, said he, was done with
early norther seed and fertilizinR;
could not possibly have been done
without the very closest of work.
Mr.. Marshall, the professor in
charge of the stock department at
the A. d NJ. made a splendid talk.
Said he would not breed a COW to
ANYTHING but q pure high bred bull.