The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-04-21
NEWS md VIEWS
N STATE CAPITAL
~ BILL COX

HtFi authority tllas 60
,..sn,,ts required i short season ~ .
feeding on grain in order to hafoe''
the flesh before being ssaushtefea |
1 basfenea even al the expense % !
foregoing the profit and pleasure /
u i further hearing o. the afofe
asif eminent authority, to giFe lhs
f,lIls county farmers the benefit
II this very important Information.
Before progressing further, now
eXar nernlit me To state thar tue
discovery was made BY the esheii-
raental force Of the A. & NJ cor
,age In view OF the fact that my
grandfather knew that mass7Isu
hors required grain TO haraen shs
flesh. that peanuts were ABOUT "a
the same food value as aefons ana
mat every farmer who has had any
experience with mast feeding since
the day when the devils drove Tue
swine into the sea has known TINS
same fact makes this information
coming from our great A. ~
school. decidedly refreshing.
The experimental man had asked
most any one-eyed negro IN tue
rural district of Texas he would
have been enlightened on the SUD
ject without the trouble and eS-
rense OF an experiment
The experiments made By book
trained farmers and the re8nlts are
"a. times ludiorous. However, !
am told that since the beginning
Of our A.. 4 NJ. school about fort
years ago, H.efe have been some
where between seventg-five and enc
hundred graduates who have en-
gaged in actual farming, Look HI
tie boys who are attending from
your own community and aseer-
tain how many OF them contemplate
tickling the face Of mother earth
with pillow. Oh tempus, oh
niores, OH
The appropriation committee Is
grinding along on departmental.
educational and eleemosynary bud
gets. but will not be ready for any
thing like full report before the
converting Of the special session.
Every statement made by those
y no appear III behalf Of their re-
spectiye budgets make a few prefa-
ttry remarks upon the great eff
s5eleneg OF their e0-laborers before
proceeding to show tie committee
that TO take one i0s or title from
what they ask for would cause the
Id ship OF state 10 go TO pieces
on listen To item and feel sure
tfat there are at ieass 80 parts
tcncomb 10 50 parts reality II
their statements and if sou under
took 10 inject a little Of what you
think il common sense into The dis
eassion you are in Il very gentle man
ner given to understand that your
common Old fashioned corn field
common SENSE is all right IN IA gem
eral way but it Is not applicable in
I their field Of action After the gen
tleman has concluded you feel that
you have listened to a very gentle
manly presentation OF matters Of
the details of which you are bliss
fully ignorant. The gentleman re-
tires and the chairman takes up the
budget item at time Item after
item is fayorably passed and check
ed. a backward fellow occasionally
objeeting and trying to cut an item
Ont or down. All goes merrily on
for awhile untii it suddenly dawns or
the majority that appropriations are
going to mount sky high. 1t is then
that few cuts are made The gem
tleman who explained the budget
learns that foul hands have been laid
on his work and he cIamors to be
heard again. Some times he is adj
mitted and he goes over the whole
story again If permitted but seldom
feiTes out anything new. having fired
/ all his shots the first time. If he
gets in just after the midday meal
while the members are feeling
friendly to mankind. he may get the
tthing through as he first asked /
lido not know what viii be the ont
come but do think that every mpm-
Der of the S5th Legislature viii be
called upon by his constituents To
IeSplain why such great approfeia-
iions were made At some utre
itime / shall give some ideas of tho
things the state is doing. which |
think might be left 10 the peaple
themselves and ! may ask that the
a. q NJ College be confined to the
tcaclins Of agriculture.