Lockhart Daily Post. (Lockhart, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 166, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 27, 1901 Page: 1 of 4
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LOCKHART, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 1901
VOL. I
No. 1
You can get this only at
not nay that the
J. P. LANEY’S
DON’T LIKE CRANE
WHO TO CALL.
We offer our
Entire Line
of
Summer Goods
W. M. Ray
agant, without a murmur from
her tax payer*, or Texas has
excess of the
is this known
Texas,
cotton
North t
SOME REASONS WHY TEXAS
NEEDS MOOR AGRICUL
TUR AL EXPERIMENT
STATIONS.
nearly every benefit resulting
from agricultural experiment
station work. l>eing located at a
greater distance from such ata
tions than any people in any
state of the Union. A large
portion of Texas territory is
from 230 to 700 miles from any
Texas station, and much nearer
to stations in other states than
those of Texas. It has been
officially determined, and no-
where disputed that throughout
the country generally the agri
cultural experiment stations
are centers of an ever widening
area of agricultural prosperity
that is not known elsewhere.
Before the influence of the Hee
vllle station was felt, the rail
roads hauled out of that section
only a few cattle, nnd hide* and
bones. Now several thousand
carlo id* of farm products are
Shoes and Slippers
at Cost UntilAugust I
Will sell Fairbank's Famous Clariette
Soap 10 Big Bars for 25c.
Look
and
Consisting of Lawns,D entities, Batistes
Ginghams, Embroideries, Laces, Straw
Hats, our full line of Tien’s Ladies’
and Children's
loam* are adapted to semi trop |
kal fruit*, vegetable*, rice and
tobacco, the black waxy land*
of Centra) and North Texas to
cotton, grain, fr lit* and forage
crops; the <’ro*x Timber oelt to
fruit*, grain, cotton and all
staple crops; the flint »and and
ferruginous clay* and loam* of
East Texas are adapted to fruit*
of fbe highest type of excel-,
fence, and staple crops also.
West Texa* from the mouth of ‘
the Rio Grande to the northern
limit cover* eleven degree* of
latitude, and i» adapted to cot ‘
ton. cattle and cattle feed. No
two or three stations can cover
these widely different agricul-
tural cond it ion* The work of
the main *tation near Bryan
however valuable it may be in
its own section, can be of but
little benefit to farmer* of
North, Emit and West Texas
The *ub station at Beeville ha*
beyond question revolutionised j
agriculture for seventy five1
miP* io every direction, but it*
work h of n«> value* at all tar -1
(her north or east. At present
four fifth* of the Agricultural
Our .Mexican friends and citi-
izens are making intensive pre-
parations for an elaborate and
! grand celebration on the six
teenth of September in observ-
ance of their national indepen-
dence.
shipped out every year. Be-! been niggardly, not withstand-
fore, farm products for market ing her great wealth, prosperity
were not thought of of. Now and low tax rate. There should
farm products f >rm the chief
source of revenue of the farmers
who are prosperous, and land
value* and taxable values have
greatly increased; and the jh-c
objects. Some say experiment
station* are >xs»tly. Ko they
are; but no man can be found,
, who i* conversant with the
facts, who will
benefits to the
stale are far in
cost. So well
varies from about 3t»
Mrs. Glover, w ife of the la f
Sheriff Glover and represent
2 tives of the late Smiley I O. j
F. lx»dge were in town Frid|
to collect the insurance a
benefit funds, which amounts I
S *4,600 or *3,<M». I
There were fifty cases in t|
county court this week agaiill
2 carrying pistols.
Mr. J. B. Meacham and wffi
arrived from Charlotte, N. |
this week to make this their t
BR1 ture home. Mr. Meacham
^7 superintendent of the Gonza
cotton Mill.
Si Born to Mr and Mrs. M
Davis, a girl, and to Mr. a
Mrs. John Rainey, a girl, L
Call up 110 Wrba Bros, for all
kinds of choice groceries.
Hill County People Resent
Remarks He Made About ;
Attorney General t
Smith. 0
not an agricultural, or non agn-i
cultural statr, where the people
would for a moment contem-
plate their abandonment, or er-'
en a curtailment of their reve-
nue*. Twenty-four states and
territories appropriate more
money for tin* work than Tex-
as. <>ur neighboring state of
Lwisuna appropriate* aunu il-
ly >?.’.,«» •» for experiment sta-
tion work Texas with nearly
six time* the area, appropriate*
*2.3»x«. It is plain that this dif
ferroce should not exist. Eith-
Term* on Cont Salen Cunh orer the counter. Nothing
renerced of the linen named.
GONZALES BpDGET.
—
Gonzales Tex., Aug. 25.- M
J. A. Houston of San Anton
attended the funeral of h
brother-in-law. Mr. J. W. Tin f
climate, altitude, soil, rainfall,
an<i consequently of products,
than any equal area in the en-
tire country. The area of Tex-
as equal* tnat of five contiguous
and neighboring states. Texas i
ha* two and the state* men- :
tioned seven experiment sta-1
tipns. The average rainfall |n |001,1 Texas, that there is
Texas
inchr* in East Texas to about *
inches at El Paso. The soils
of the various section* differ
Hillsboro, Tex., Aug. 26.—
_____ There is much opposition
Take your com to the “Or- Hon. M. M. Crane for Governor
phan Bov’s” stable. He will; in this county on account o
_____ ; buy it as long as his money lasts his attacks upon the late At
Geo. Adams left for Marble and then will trade you a toler- tomey General Smith at th ;
Fails yesterdy. able fat horse for more. Waco convention! The peoph .
...... ..... of Hill count}’ bad impiici 1
faith in the integrity of the At I
jtorney General, and they ar I
not disposed to overlook th I
attacks of Mr. Crane, and if h I
comes to this count}’ to spea I
W or make a canvass some of thl
strongest speakers of the couf
ty will, to use their own er
' pression, “See that the peop£ x
w of the county do not forgZ
C. it. ”
The greatest good would re
suit from station* located ac-
cording to soil, climate and
conditions affecting agriculture P’c throughout that scciiun,
and not by states or territories wb-ther engaged in far ning or
or areas. Texas not only has a n°L have petitiooed for addi
larger area than any other !<*<>»»* ^ulpmebt for that sta
state, but a greater range of: an<’ nonein all that region
.V
OBcc or publicMUoa m4 odltoriol roonw, of o*olM tn Brook Buildinc. over Lhnner'a grocery store.
at least be a station, properly
e<|uip)>ed lor work appropriate
to its section in the black waxy
section; one in the fruit and to-
bacco region on East
and one in the cattle,
and forage region ot
Texas and the Panhandle. I
There ought also to be a sub I
station in the rice growing coun-
I
try. The farmers of these sec-
tions are entitled to all the mod- i
ern means of development, so ■
popular and profitable every ■
where in the country, and ought j
to have them There are some |
farmers in every section who do
not see the necessity for any I
such institutions, and consider
all *ucb expenditure* of public RIG STORE
money as useless. These are lip
Ibe very oo« who need the jmMiiiSSiUilSlllillMililliiiiiliiiiliMliMliUHiiiiiiiMII
work and influence of expert i
DEIS i bEIS.
ment stations most. One of the.
functions of government is to
protect those who cannot pro ■
tect themselves. Another is to
inform those who cannot or will
not inform themselves.—Texas
Farm and Ranch
Mr. Frank Houston Wed:
day bought of T. B. Bud<
Waelder, Mo bead of three-y
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Smith, Carey. Lockhart Daily Post. (Lockhart, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 166, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 27, 1901, newspaper, August 27, 1901; Lockhart, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1189482/m1/1/?q=MART: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .