The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-06-07
INNOCENCE IS DlSpORTNG HIMSELF IN
THE WATERS or THE BAY.
p PROSPEROUS PEOPLE
The Farmers of Limestone County
are Becoming Independent Since
Cutting Loose from King
Cotton and Adopting
nivpEsifiCation.

Covpas Christi, June 5.-Onee
again am located on the banks o.
Corpss Christi bay and both day and
night can hear the murmur.nga Of
he Wild waves as they roll in from
the great deep and splash thelr white
foam on the strand. This climate,
together with q liberal use OF sal
phur water which flows from an arte-
sian we'll here in Corpus Christi. af
foras thousands along with myself
relief from different ailments. which
Ne we're unable to get elsewhere.
left Waxahachie May 20 and
stopped at WORKMAN. small town
on the Houston and Texas Central
where my brother-in-law, II. F.
simmons. and his son. Roy. are mer-I
chandising ! spent one day and
part ri one night there. / formerly
run a newspaper at Mexia. the next
station south. and am no stranger
at Wortham Despite the ravages
ef the boil weeyil II is a thriving am
prosperous town. There are a large
number OF brick business houses,
several cf which have been built
since | used 10 visit that place. My
hraf her-iu-law and his son are con
tinualiy shipping carloads eli eggs,
chickens. turkeys and butter 70 nor
thern markets. These Texas farmers,
whe nthey have TO. can turn their
energies to other resources than coz
ton and still make living and save
some money besides. In addition
10 the poultry business there will
be- shipped from Wortham this spring
some forty or fifty car loads or Irish
potatoes and they were worth the
day ! WAS there rs cenA per 5ushel-
The yield in that section IL fine this
year. have read of diversified
farming and the profits derived from
Il for the past several years. but in
my extensive travels throughout Ell
/ lis aud other blackiand counties :
have seen very little diversified ag-
| triruhure However. the few [ have
seen turning their attention 20 other
I things than cotton are makiaE
money great majority of the
blackiand farmers are welded 10 cot
/ ton and cotton alone. and II ii is a
( failure or the price low hard times
/ is the Inevitable consequence. ! rode
out into the country with Roy sim
/ mons and Witnessed some OF this di-
yersIficatton farming near Wortham
+ Large orchards OF Elberta peaches
have within she past few years been
Iplanted. fields OF onions eanteloupes
land Irish potatoes are 80 be seen
aGfia while
nearly every house can be heard the
/ eackIinE of chickens and the lazy
grunt of Berkshires and Poland China
lhogs This an indicates TO me thar
al last I was ia "a community R1ere
1.-THE people NO longer depended on
King Cotton for a living. Sow let
Mr Boil Weeyii come and Do his
worst but the farmers tributary 20
W0rtham viii be prosperous stiti
iFf il ms candid opinion that the dAy
Is coming and "a is not far off when
blackiand tanners viii be compelled
TO make their farms more selt-sup-
tainiug than they have heretofore
been These WORKMAN farmers we're
forced so do it and now they are al.
yessifying ~ith vim that meah'
success.
Leaving WORKMAN ~ ~ o'eioes q
az night the next morning Al
q clock ! found myself az Hsarne of
the uragos river. aud there 1 enans
"a 60 the international and sfea
Northern railroad struck tNs
new Hpapsr men. both old apau88ut
anceN. one groFn Kosss aud fhe other
Hou A. NJ Kennedy from Mart. Nj
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/ ko~ae editor. held the position " en
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