The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-07-14
MEETING OF FARMERS
Last SeSs,oa Of farmers CeaNeSs Host
Successful Ever Held.

citizens who have attended the Farm
ers' Congress during the past few
years not one has regretted his trip
and there are men in this county
and in all parts of Texas who have
never missed meeting since the or
ganization of the congress nine years
ago. The session just closed was at
tended by forty or fifty from Ellis
county, though there was no organiz-
ed effort to induce them to attend.
| have not fully recovered from the
hard spell | had in May and | did
not feel equal to the task of heading
car load down there this year. but
when the time came to go | could
not stay away. | took with me
Johnnie Miller, the youth whom +
raised. For the benefit of the thous-
ands of readers who could not attend
will try to tell them something
about this meeting We left Waxa-
hachie on the Central at $50 Tues
day morning and arrived at College
is located, at O'Clock that after.
noon. | want to say right here that
the crops along the road are the best
ever saw, The good master has
smiled on them this season to such
an extent that at Thornton, where
the people We're almost on starvation
few years ago and to which place
Ellis county made contributions
they are all right now with fine crops.
Going down ] took the names oil all
Ellis county citizens and when we
reached College Station l rushed to
the main building and registered for
all of them thus securing splendid
rooms and beds for the whole outnt.
We then began exploring the .grounos
and buildings. There are We've "
af.aa, large three-stOry bu1i0ihHs W
tna rrounds used by the students our
ling the school term, and these build
| ings are equipped with mach1ner,
and other paraphernalia for teaching
! the different subjects. At the close
| of the college this year every young
man who had qualified himseH IN
! the different branches taught had
good lob at splendid wages offered
him. The world has made such rapid
progress during the past rev years
that the young man who quaihes
himself to fill positions has no troup-
le in securing a job at once. Inc
college grounds consist OF ABOUT l.
100 acres and a great deal Oh II 10
in cultivation, and il is planted Win
view to experimenting with the dit-
ferent field crops. This cultivation
is not for the purpose OF mahlns
money. but to show TO the Woriu
what can be done at the experiment
tai stations here and III other s'a'es'
for almost all the states have expert
mental stations now. Some OF tue
greatest discoveries in the different
field crops have been made ana 'heSe
experiments. made as they are AT 'he
axnense of the state and natlohal
government. have been worth mn
lions to the farmers OF the Ohlteu
states. and each and every FARMER
in Ellis county should have MS name
nlaced on the mailing list at the \.
land NJ College and get the balleN'l'S
ISSUED from there, which cost hoth-
ing hut the time spent IN lt'uln-
ltbau will take pleasure IN get
ring vour names ON the list II yoo
will notify me Besides the crops
Lam kinds Of live stock and bees '''
ll,uf there at the college ana hui
}etins are issued on the Neepin- "h'
breeding pf these All those ia a..
t.pdspi upon thc Farmers toncfes
th4- access to and frequently "h. '
tth, teachers Eov- with iar crow" IT.
Lana. Hald. aud stock pons t' SNOW
..u.fblug of what ,s NeluE H'N
fnsf, The chances toI a. iain'''
l..rent himself hy atfeudlnE the '''
srs-. rs simply immeusy pn' "'''
lCf.su Butler from MeNia. my ''
lhnm, whom 0 have ku'Nu t"f AAh
scars said 90 me "a few years A-
In,st ou ono trip to the congress 2
vent home and pat over $500 IN 10
hank from what ho learned ihe.
OF course. it js uot every wtn ~h
.au do hal avll from a ifip hH'
Is man guess there tue pf"fssdt
ssf himself 0p against 'h" 4iH'''
iohiests of information thal essex 90.
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