The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-11-13
hILFIN IN THE FIELD
Observations Made by Enterprise Mis-
sioasrY on His Weekly Round.

and 1t has come to stay. If We keep
up our present rate of increasing In
population, In another 90 years we
viii have 125, 100000 population
and the whole business to bo fed and
clothed from the farms Everything
Is high, and that is what the farmer
wants, for the farmer is producer
and sells more than he buys IL he
don't he had better change his busi-
ness. Our forests are practically
gone, and ii is said that our sources
of coal and iron may become OK
hausted within another century. but
the land, the more Ii Is cultivated
the more readily 1t responds to the
call of mankind. There Is no doubt
but there has been more progress in
farming within the past twenty-five
years than there was in two centuries
before. Improved farm machinery
has done miracles in lessening manu-
al labor, and drudgery on the farm
Is almost thing OF the past Only
last week, | saw the daughter of a
prosperous farmer, bonnetted and
gloved, driving four big horses to
disc plow. Her work was as pleas
ant as driving buggy down the big
road. but she was doing the work
tha, would have required two strong
men to do few years ago. Progress
and striving to do better is the order
of the day now, and nowhere is this
more in evidence than on the farm
To improve everything corn, cotton
wheat, oats, fruits, horses, hogs, tur-
keys, chickens, flowers; and, to edu-
cate the children for better lives and
to love their homes and their country
and its institution, is the ideal
which, in both country and town, is
being striven for
Forreston is a good town and as
| pull on up to Italy | stop at J. F
Wrights. He will make so or 60
bales of cotton and other things in
proportion | went by to see T. H.
Smith, and he had just had two mules
and a mare killed on the railroad;
while his neighbor, j. P. Easterwood,
had had his house destroyed by fire
and had lost most everything. Al
Forreston l went down TO the gin
to SEQ how things We're going, ans
MIR. Moody said he took my pape'
and read every line in it, as he hat
nothing else to do. You see the,
have only ginned 5000 bales of cot
ton this year, and of course, he has
read to kill time. w. T. Owens, W.
c. Brooks and 2. A. Shaw all renew
I'd their papers. What would we do
without such men? | guess we never
would have started that is what we
would have done.
Pearson Bros, there are three of
them. and their good old mother,
Aunt Jane Pearson. live between
Nash and Forreston They came
here three years ago from Jackson
county. Tennessee. and their success
as farmers has been unusual. This
year they have in l75 acres of cot
ton and viii make 1865 or l70 bales.
Iu other words. they viii clear seven
or eight thousand dollars on their
cotton. besides they have other crops
too They are workers. { have been
to Jhc,c home. and they treat you
as only Tonue-seeau cam. They
have bought the ONeu farm, and if
they would just cet married ne feel
like their fortune W3a made. $ j
Boswell has made big crop and I
newer slW g man Improve 800 iu looks.
asked him what be had been taking
aud Hu just acknowledged that thu
ble crop Waa 4ll Prosperity r
d