The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-18
FARMERS INSTITUTE MEETMG
The Meeting Of This Body Grew
inc In Interest and Attendance.


day morning, the 18th inst. Half
past ten O'Clock President Davis
called the meeting to order and call.
ed on Rev. w. G. Perry, local
preacher and good farmer, and an
enthus iastic member OF the Insti-
tute, to offer prayer and 1t was an
appropriate earnest appeal for divine
guidance in this important work.
Geo. w Curtis, who is first assist
ant of DIR. s. A. Knapp, the man
who will conduct the experiments
for the United states government
in Texas and Louisiana, and by the
way, will have the expenditure of
the two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars recently appropriated by
congress, was the first speaker in
troduced. Mr.. Curtis is pleasant
| speaker and quite nice gentleman, ,
having filled the important position
of director of the experimental sta
ton at the A. q NJ College for ten
years and DR.. Knapp was fortunate
in securing his services as his as
| sistant in this important work. Mr.,
Curtis in few words explained to
the large audience that it was the
cooperation of the farmers of Texas
he and his chief, Dr. Knapp, was
after. Said we scientific men do
not know 1t alllif, said he, we did,
we would have killed the boil wee
wills in Texas long ago and what we
! ara aftAr nov, seia he t.-.h.-, - &c
get each and every farmer who will
take from five to as many acres as
he will ,Iset this land aside, plant IL in
cotton and cultivate it under the d.
rection of the government experts,
who will visit your farms as often
as it Is possible for them to do so.
Mr.. Curtis suggested furthermore
land also set apart like number OF
| acres to that he tenders the govern
ment!and work this according to his
own ideas and If you should succeed
on your part better than that you
work under the direction of this ex
,, pert he will be glad and will learn
something from you and he will
at once proceed to give IL 10 the
world. Mr.. Curtis explained that
Mr.. Porter, on whose farm near
Terrell, in Kaufman county, DIR.
Cd ~ "a Last
year, recently published IN the pa
pers the fact that he bad cleared
seven hundred dollars more by fol-
lowing the directions of the experts
than he would otherwise have done.
After 1t was explained 10 the audi
ence that there was no restrictions
on those assigning land, that is,
they were not required to buy fer
tilizer or to go to any extra expense
In the cultivation of the land assign
ed, some forty odd came forward
and agreed to set apart the acre
age ranging from five to twenty
acres. While these experts believe
1t better to hasten the early matur"
ing of cotton by using fertilizers no
matter how rich the land is, still
they leave that matter optional
with those who cultiv ate under their
direction. MIR. Curtis said in South
Texas where these experiments had
been carried on extensively, better
results have been obtained from
early maturing northern seed, yet IL
farmer did not wish to buy early
seed and preferred to plant seed he
has already on hand this mans crop
would be looked after the same as
the man who planted the early
northern seed and fertilized IL and
not L ntil all this was thoroughly
and fully explained was any farmer
present called upon to assign any
land and when they fully under
stood the plans then there was =
rush to get onto the band wagon.
Mr.. Curtis complimented the audi
ence and said he had not had more
hearty response anywhere, even
where the boil weevils had destroy
ed their crops last year, and he said
afterwards priv ately to me, thatyour
Ellis county farmers while few of
them have been hurt yet, still II
there is anything better for them
they are anxious to learn 1t. Mr..
Porter, the man on whose farm near
Terrell, Kaufman county, DIR. Knapp
carried on experiments last year,
published not long since in the Dallas
News over his own signature that
he saved 500 over and above what
he would have done by following
the advice of DIR. Knapp in the man
agement of his crops. Walter Park
of Forreston, who has been very
successful in raising June corn as
well as all other crops, was then
called on to explain to the Institute
how he had made such success of