The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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The Successful Farmer.
The editor o£ Texas Farm and
Fireside undertakes to describe
the successful farmer as follows:
The country recognizes but two
classes of farmers in this country,
viz, the good farmer and the poor
farmer, or the successful farmer
and the unsuccessful farmer.
One is regarded as a success and
the other a3 a failure. It is as
easy to be the one as the other.
The question that naturally arises
which do you prefer to be? If a
farmer at all why not a good
farmer?
The^youug man who starts out
to farm should remember these
fundamental truths that a land
worth plowing at all is worth well
plowing, and a crop worth plant-
ing is worth cultivating. What-
ever is worth cultivating at all is
worth cultivating well. There is
no lesson more important to learn
than this, and none that will
profit the young farmer more to
learn well. Care in the prepara-
tion of the land, in cultivating
the crop, in the care of the tools
and the live stock on the farm is
essential to success as a farmer.
The young farmer who starts out
to become a successful farmer
will find that his success depends
upon starting right.
There has always been poor
farmers and always will be.
Solomon gives this account of a
poor farmer ages ago, for this
wise king wrote: “I went by the
field of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void of un-
derstanding, and lo it was allx
grown over with thorns, and
nettles covered the face thereof,
and the stone wall thereof was
broken down.” This same con-
University Course a Financial Success.
Seven years ago a young
woman already having a perma-
nent certificate to teach became
discouraged at the prospect of
working for fifty dollars a month,
decided to go to the University
of Texas, and borrowed the
money f6r her expences. She was
able to take advanced standing
and graduated at the end of three
years in debt $860.00 she sayiy
“From time to time,' as the
amount borrowed began to creep
into the hundreds, I became fear-
ful and doubtful whether I had
followed the best plan. Yet I
could see that the investment
was safe, its economic basis
being increased earning capacity.
From my present viewpoint I
consider my years in the Univer-
sity a success financially. I
reckon from observation that a
liberal salary for me, if I had not
attended the University, would
be $65, per month for nine
months. For seven years, at the
rate of $65, the amount of money
earned would be $4095. My salary
since leaving the University runs
as follows: $900, $945, $1200,
$1300 per year; total, $4345.
Thus I am $250 £to the good.” It
means that three years at the
University have fitted me to earn
in four years $240 more than I
could have earned in seven years
with my former earning capacity.
Eight hundred and sixty dollars
seems a formidable sum to a
young woman and yet there is
no great risk provided the
borrowed can offer as security a
sound constitution, a healthy
brain, a lively ambition, and
enough self-pride to make her
wish not to disapoint her friends
dition exists today with the far-’t'or her family who have invested
mer who has no understanding.
His fences are down, his field is
grown up with thorns and thistles
and weeds and grass overrun.
According to Solomon the farmer
who fails to properly care for his
land and crops is without under-
standing and is slothful. What a
charge to bear. Slothful and
without understanding.
We cannot believe that the far-
mer who loves the farm and the
work thereof will ever permit the
tares to take the place of growing
crops, and thorns and thistles to
cover his field. We do not believe
that failure on the farm is as
much chargeable to slothfulness
as to carelessness. Men who do
not love the farm and the work
required to maintain it can never
fibpe to succeed on the farm, and
the sooner they abandon it for
other avocations the better it will
be for both them and the farm.
But men who enjoy farm life and
the labor incident thereto are
those who bring success to their
efiorts and deserve the distin-
guishing title of successful far-
mers.
other ninety per cent; therefore
if you plant only the average of
the whole you, invite deteriora
tion at nine to one.
Every cotton grower, from the
man who raises one bale to the,
man who raises one hundred
bales, can very greatly increase
his yield and his profit by ' this
simple and inexpensive method.
This is something that you can
do in your own field; try it.
Henry Exall,
Pres. Texas Industrial Congress.
in her. Finally, I am pleased,
who borrowed the money, and
have now a greater capacity to
enjoy and to help; my friends
are pleased, who loaned me the
money, and have taken an inter-
est and delight in my success as
student and teacher.”
Bidding Fine Residence.
Kingsville, Texas, Aug. 1$—
Mrs. H. M. King is constructing | fy doubled.
It would be just as reasonable
Select Your Cotton Seed Now.
The average farmer picks his
cotton as it opens, gins it, sells
lint and seed, and then about the
last of the season, hauls, home
seed enough for next year’s
planting. In this way, as a rule,
Jie saves the latest and the poorest
seed.
If, when the cotton begins to
open, the farmer, with as mueh
intelligent help as the size of the
crop will warrant, would go
through the field and select the
early big bolls that are grown on
short-jointed, vigorous, well-
formed stalks, until he has saved
enough to furnish seed for next
year’s planting, and would have
the seed ginned to itself, and
carefully store it where it will not
heat, it is safe to say that ,the
next season’s crop would ripen
ten or fifteen days earlier than
the average of this year’s crop,
and the yield would be practical-
From McCreaville
Verbena! „
We did not get any rain last
week, only light showers here.
Partial rains near by filled tanks.
We had/ a heavy wind and elec
trical display before the shower.
Farmers are busy turning over
the sod and saving their cane
and hay. The last of this month
corn will be pulled and cotton
will soon be ready to pick. The
dry weather will cut the crop
short in this part of the country.
Grady McCrea, of Temple, vis-
ited home folks for a few days.
All were glad to welcome him
back again, if only for a short
stay. ' „
Walter Reynolds and family, of
Lampasas, visited relatives here
and attended the Methodist pro-
tracted meeting.
Miss Agnes Smith, of Lometa,
is visiting her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. McGrea, and at-
tending the meeting.
Miss Allie Matthews and her
brother, Carl, have gone on a
trip to New Mexico to visit their
brother, Earl, who i3 living there.
Miss Allie will return, while Carl
will remain there for an indefi-
nite time.
N- E. Loving and wife, of
Bend, Visited home and attended
the meeting this week.
Homer Seale and family visit-
ed home folks and attended the
meeting Sunday.
Our protracted meeting closed
Sunday night. Bro. Moon con-
ducted the meeting. His sermons
were instructive and elevating.
machine, so they are raised in a
separate field. Wheat stacks are
gone because the ascertained
losses between cutting and
thrashing from the stacks are
greater than the gain due to the
stack-sweating process; and
another pride of the farm—the
man who could put up the most
symmetrical pagoda of wheat
bundles—i3 compelled to look for
glory in other fields. For the
young folks the town and city
ballrooms are made available by
improved roads and automobiles;
they dance to the music of the
same orchestra that plays for
country club parties—so passeth
the straw rides and the “grand
right and left” urtder the barn
lanterns.
And all the! college-bred farm-
er gets in exchange for the old
farm traditions and romance is a
bigger bank account;, a more
wide awake existence, bath tubs
and sleeping porches, demonstra-
tion trains, a scientific acquaint-
ance with the soil, a knowledge
of cost accounting, and a few
other things like rural free de-
livery, long distance telephone
service, the same old tan, fresh
country eggs, and good health.
Before you put your talented son
into a law school, a medical
school or a dental college, spend
some time investigating the agri-
cultural college. You’ll find that
men are beginningto brag-about
sons who have gone back to the
land and made good. We’ll have
a farmer president one of these
days, too.—Colliers.
There are yet some camp/ers
each of the parks, but the( 1st
the 15th of September will §
them all return to their hcfcnes.
Miss Helen Litton left W edne
day afternoon to join her nnoth
at Elgin, and they will gp on
Harlingen, the new home \of t
family.
Mrs. J. D. Dorbandt and Mi
Allie are at home from Cajldwe
where they had a pleasant vi
with Mrs. Dorbandt’s jfathe
Hon. A. C. Murray.
Snap Woods, whose hbme i
some miles west of Lar^ipasa
was here and paid his respect
arid his subscription to The Lead
er. Thanks.
Unless rain shall come in th
near future the cotton crop wil
be as short as last year, and wit"
little hope c>f a fall crop. Stil
with this prbspect the price ha
fallen off about $2.50 per bal
within the past week.
The Tipping Evil.
It seems that the tipping evil is
here to stay, because the Ameri-
can people have not the courage
to refuse to give tips for service
which has already been paid for
at a liberal rate in a regular way.
At least this appears to be the
view of hotel men of the North-
western States-who have been in
session at Des Moines.
Many of the delegates at this
convention spoke in opposition to
the custom of tipping hotel wait-
Good crowds attended each serv- i ers and employes and there was
ice.
Drummers continue to come to
Lampasas from all points of the
compass and with all sorts of
merchandise to sell. Lampasas
merchants nearly always buy
from each of these traveling men
and it is easily disposed of when
properly advertised.
Mr. and Mrs. P. Y. Hickman
are at'home from an extended
trip to the north, having visited
relatives in several different
states and enjoyed an outing
such as rarely falls to the lot of
people in mature life. Friends
are pleased to see them home
again.
Ely Baggett has gone to San
Angelo, where he will select a
location and build a home for
himself and wife. They have
sold out in that section and other
places more than once, but final-
ly concluded that the Concho
country was the best for them,
and there they will probably re-
main until called over to ttie bet^
ter land.
one of the finest residences in
Texas on the celebrated King
ranch near here. The house will
be built entirely of tiling and al-
ready thirty cars of material are
on hand. The cost will be $100,-
000.
Kansas Woman’s Bank Account.
A. woman went into one of the
banks in Fredonia and said to
the cashier:
“I should like to open an ac-
count at this bank, if you please.”
“We shall be glad to accom-
modate you madam. What
amount do you wish. to deposit?”
“Oh, but I mean a charge ac-
oount, such hs I have at the dry
goods store.”—Fredonia Herald.
to shake down the apples pro-
miscuously from a tree and take
them to the Fair^ hoping to win al
premium in competition with a
man who had selected only the
choicest specimens, or to turn all
of your stock loose to breed in-
discriminately, instead of forc-
ing the survival of the fittest by
the most rigid selection, and ex-
pect to 'improve your stock, as it
is to plant seed of any kind with-
out selecting with the greatest
care the most vigorous and the
best, and hope for good results.
It is fair to say that ten per
cent of the cotton seed selected
as above suggested, is infinitely
superior to the average of the
Mr. Webster, who has been a
sufferer from sticking a nail in
his foot, has not entirely recover-
ed, yet he has gone to work turn-
ing over the sod.
Mr. Trybig and family, from
Yoakum, are visiting Mrs. Try-
big’s father, D. N. Rogers.
Miss Madge Moore, of Lampa-
sas, is visiting at the home of Jim
Landers.
Our community women have
been busy the past few weeks
canning fruit and vegetables.
Fruit has been scarce here, but
plentiful with ^ur neighbors a
few miles distant.
New Moving Pictures of the Farm.
A fine smasher of old pictures
is the college-bred farmer? You
remember, of course, those hoary
and pleasing lithographs showing
the finding of the red ear at. the
husking bee, the barn dance, the
“house rasin,” the hayraok
parties, the pumpkins yellowing
between the corn rows, the
beautifully built conical stacks of
bundled wheat, well, they are all
headed for historical museums,
and oui^ college-bred farmers are
posing for new moving picture
plays. Into his corn field, in July
or August, he swings with his
harvester to cut green stalks.
With his machine he does the
work of ten men with corn knives.
fter it is cut the corn goes to a
shredder, which husks the ears
and grinds the stalks for silage -
a first-class green winter feed for
dairy cows. Pumpkin vines
would become entangled in the
an apparent disposition to take
some action for its abrogation,
but one of the delegates declared
that the American people are so
afflicted with cowardice that they
cannot refuse tips to hotel em-
ployes and, accepting this view,
the other delegates concluded
that it was just as well to drop
the matter without giving it fur-
ther consideration.
At nearly all the clubs in the
country the giving or accept-
ing of tips is positively
prohibited. The member offer-
ing a tip is subject to explusion
and the employe accepting a tip
is subject to dismissal for violat-
ing the rule; but it seems that
the hotel is powerless to enforce
an order that would relieve its
guests of a burden which their
“cowardice” imposes.—San An-
tonio Express.
There is to be another election
in precinct No. 2 on Saturday of
this wee$ the contest being be-
tween Messrs. Holley and Rich-
ter for the office of county com-
missioner from that precinct.
These gentlemen received the
same number of votes at the
general primary election, hence
the necessity of the people voting
again to determine the matter.
The office qf commissioner is one
of the most important in the
county and the people should see
that they get the best possible
representative in the county
government.
There are more than the usual
number of colored people in Lam-
pasas at present, the occasions
which bring tliem here being a
Methodist district Sunday school
convention, and a meeting of the
order of the Eastern Star. The
white people generally have had.
the privilege of contributing to\
the entertainment of these!
visitors. '
People are always pleased with
the goods and prices at Stevens
Racket Store. 1 w
Farm development.
The Texas Industrial Congress,
has done and is doing a great
work also in stimulating friendly
rivalry in production of general
and special crops. The railroads
have for a long time been active-
ly engaged in the same kind of
demonstrations and experiments
to show the farmers as well as
tell them what has been done and
can be done to get more from an
acre and of improved quality
and to select the crops best suit-
ed to the soil and climatic con-
ditions of each section. Demon-
strations trains, boys’ corn clubs,
girls’ canning clubs, prizes for
corn, cotton, cane, and forage
crops, irrigated and unirrigated—-
all these influences are at work
to convert every man who follows
a plow into a scientific farmer
and better farmer by actually
proving to him by direct and
visible results that it pays to
farm in this way. Any State or
section that does and keeps on
doing this character of educa-
tional work is bound to win. Let
Texas continue to show what it
oan do, and agricultural leader-
ship is a “cinch.”—Fort Worth
Star-Telegram. -x "
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912, newspaper, August 16, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892492/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.