The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-09-08
BETTER AGRICULTURAL Nh
THODS,

a lot Of nonsense Is being take q
aud written by the republican news
papers about better agricultural
methods" seIf-,ntprest, OF course
prompts every farmer to do every
thing that be can to SSt the beet
crops possible, and no iacg ntiYe Is
gonger than seif-interest Their
are many things that farmers would
like to do that events prevent them
from doing, and there are things
whicn they do that they wish they
bRd left nndone II Ia SO Ia es-
cry business and with everyone If
the nay had not been cut this morn
ing. the rain would not have spoiled
IL. but who IL wise enough to tell
what the tickle weather viii be II
it had not rained for weeks In the
spring, the cotton and corn would
rot have been SO weedy; IL would
hare been possible TO work 1t in
season, instead of having to wait
until other crops needed attention
II il he'd not been for the drouth,
the crops would have been better;
but the farmer il not n rain maker
and has To accept the weather that
nature provides.
when the people get sick of re-
Publican policies and corrupt mis-
rule. some smart aleek blames It on
the farmers, and the organs begin
to pipe In tae same tune and demand
better agricultural methods"
When insurgents insurge, the
same organs" blame 1t on the farm
ura ana insist that they have pros
pered through the republican Iegis-
tation. although they admit the
tariff should have been more
scientific
Some railroad magnatc has 1
model farm where everything that
he raises costs twice what il Is
worth, and even the eggs cost one
dollar per dozen. and be thinks THAT
the farmers should follow his eH-
ample of intensive farming. The
agricultural department experts
advise the farmers how to improve
their soil and stock. but If their
advice were followed the farmers
would need the treasury OF the Unit
ed States 30 draw upon and then
REQUIRE an urgent deficiency appro-
priation as the experts often do.
to make both ends meet.
II the farmers critics would try
their hand AT farming, with the
present lack of labor and not very
efficient AZ that. they would not
carp so much 1t Is dollars to dough-
nuts they would admit failure,
blame II on the land or the weather,
and then resume their old occupa-
ton Of seribbling about what they
don't know about farming.
The agricultural department has
just discovered that the farmers
ought to raise more potatoes to the
acre, and has sent experts to Europe
to find out how to do it, What they
VIII learn VIII he that Che climate
there Is better than here for
that sort OF crop, and any Penn
syIvania Dutchman could have told
them SO much without it costing a
dollar. when they VIII spend thou
sands,
Other countries are sending ex-
perts here To discover how we grow
cotton, and why it can't be grown
as we'll or better in Africa, Asia or
South America, 1t is probably a
question Of climate, for the darKey
apd the old mule can surely be dupli-
Gated In some fashion and there is
no great secret In their meanner-
ings
II you have tried farming you viii
know that Il is no picnic, and that
through republican policies all that
you have to bury Is at trust pgicas
and for all that You have to sell
you must take what some combine
will pay Yes. IL Is not all fun be-
ing farmer. nor do they all ride in
automobiles. though the republican
metropolitan organs and the funny
supplements would try and make as
believe that The farmers are bigger
fools than are other mortals FIX
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