The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-05
FARM Demonstration
AGENT MAKES REPORT
DrRING NINE AND 4 HALF
MONTHS MOST EXCELLENT
WORK WAS DONE.
Co-Operation Of All Interests Mane
n Possible Ia Accomplish a
Great Work During Year.

Cooperation towards agrieultu-
raj bctterment throughout Ellis
county on the part OF educational
forces in town and country is re-
Elected in o report made To the
Chamber Of Commerce by ID. ID.
FLOYD. farm demonstration agent,
Tuesday at the MONDAY luncheon.
Being practical farmer Mr.. Floyd
vas quick TO grasp the Importance
o. intensified farming. and the fact
that he grew up on a farm. and mas
| kent in close touch with agricultu-
raj conditions. enables him to put
great deal of enthusiasm into
whatever work he undertck es. He
krows how to interest farming peo-
ple in proposition that has the
bettermcnt of their condition for It's
purpose. hence he has developed
team work among the farmers them
selves. For seven months Mr..
FLOYD was the mouth-piece of the
| Chamber of Commerce and conveyed
It's message of scientific farming
into every precinct of Ellis county.
In this work he has been ably assist
ee by the Ellis County Marketing
association. by County Superlnten-
dent w. s. Ely and others who
could WELD an influence over the
young and old.
Early last spring Mr. Floyd began
his work by the agitation of diver
sification. He told tho farmers of
Ellis county that success could not
come to them through the one crop
plan and prevailed upon many to
plant feed crops Following this
initial work up in the spring he urg-
cd scientific cultivation of crops and
his work along this line has develop
&c the fact that Ellis county farms
ere not yielding the returns the
labor and money expended on the
crops should yield. . Therefore ne
began a systematic plan OF encour-
aging farmers to build up their
lands and protect soil fertility. Dur
ing the nine months work he held
1900 conferences with farmers,
made 1895 visits by travelling 664S
miles
The report shows an active inter
est developing in the supplying of
TIE finished product direct from
TIE farm. This applies largely to
livestock. During the year there
were fifty silos erected in Ellis coun-
ty. This means that the farmers are
planning to feed livestock at the
lowest possible price. 1t also shows
that Mr. Floyd dipped $1,000 worth
OF cattle. vaccinated $4,000 worth
of hogs, held eight postmortem ex-
aminations for hog cholera.
Mr.. Floyd has assisted in terrac-
ing 1000 acres of land and is now
three months behind with this work.
the soil has interested the progress
|sive farmers and requests have been
looming in from all sections asking
him to superintend terracing work.
HE also has given seven orchard
demonstrations, mailed out 4,000
bulletins on profitable farming
wrote l,400 letters, made seven pub
lie talks, run lines for twelve drain
|age bitches, helped organize the
Marketing association with a men,
bership of 100. organized sudan
club, the members of which have
harvested as many as four crops of
fine sudan during the year, organiz-
ed the Lone Star Cotton club, organ
ICED a Boys Corn club with 81 ac-
tive members. The average yield
|of corn on demonstration farms WAS
1854 bushels to the acre. while some
plats yielded as high as 60 bushels.
During the year Mr.. Floyd took
two A. and M. short courses. aided
in promoting farm crop exhibit in
lWaxahaehie. assisted in holding the
Farm ChautauQua. One OF the best
things reported was that all barns
are full of feed stuff and that ac-
cording 10 conservative estimate
| of a we'll known banker the county
has been saved a million and a quar-
ter dollars on this alone.
During the year Mr.. Floyd had
l0l co-operators and 120 demon
StratOrs