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Miscellaneous, 



(3) Among the many good things 

 accomplished we enumerate the follow- 

 ing :— 



(a) It established over 300 demonstra- 

 tion farms, scattered over the entire 

 county. 



(b) It taught better culture and in- 

 troduced better seed. These two items 

 alone were worth more than $100,000 this 

 year to our county in actual cash, to say 

 nothing of future benefits. The improve- 

 ment was so apparent that the observing 

 traveller on the high ways could pick 

 out every demonstration field. 



(c) This demonstration work saved a 

 stampede of tenant farmers and labourers 

 from the farms. 



(d) It gave confidence to the mer- 

 chants and bankers that a crop w ould be 

 made, and thus promoted credit, 



(e) It demonstrated to the farmers 

 that a crop of cotton could be made 

 under extremely adverse condition of 

 weather and insect pests, and they enter 

 upon another year with perfect confi- 

 dence. 



Great Cx'edit for the success of this 

 year's work is due to the excellent super- 

 vision of W. F. Proctor, State Agent for 

 Texas, and to the untiring energy of 

 T. O. Plunkett, local agent. 



Jno. H. Pope 

 W. T. Twymon 

 P. G. Whaley 

 M. Scully 

 H. B. Mcwilliams 

 W. L. Martin. 

 The above committee-men are well- 

 known to me, and are among the most 

 substantial and reliable citizens of Har- 

 rison County, Tex., and I also personally 

 endorse the statements made. 



H. S. Lyttleton, 

 County Judge, Harrison County. 



Palestine, Tex., January 1st, 1908. 

 Dear Sir,— We, the undersigned citi- 

 zens of Anderson County, Tex., desire 

 to acquaint you with the character of 

 the work done in this county since last 

 March through the department known 

 as the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstra- 

 tion Work, and to call your attention to 

 some of the beneficial results accom- 

 plished. 



The work of the Department in this 

 county was done on a comparatively 

 small scale. The enterprising board of 

 trade of the city of Palestine contributed 

 $600 to this work, which constituted the 

 sum of local support the work has had 

 in the way of money contributed. But, 

 notwithstanding this, the result of the 

 work accomplished has been most grati- 

 fying in many ways. 



Two hundred demonstration farms 

 have been established ; improved seed 

 has been used ; improved methods of 

 cultivation have been employed, and a 

 fine sowing has been made. Outside of 

 these demonstration farms a conservative 

 estimate places the average yield of 

 cotton per acre at about 300 pounds of 

 seed cotton, or about 1 bale to 6 acres. 

 The record made by the demonstration 

 faims is 608 pounds of seed cotton per 

 acre as an average. The yield of corn 

 per acre outside of the demonstration 

 farms is certainly not greater than 15 

 bushels per acre. The demonstration 

 farms show an average yield of 28£ 

 bushels per acre.* 



This good showing on the cottton is 

 still further augmented by the fact that 

 while it formerly took about 1,700 pounds 

 of seed cotton to make a bale, the im- 

 proved seed used on the demonstration 

 farms produces a bale with 1,400 pounds 

 of seed cotton. 



These manifest results of the work are 

 proving very stimulating to the farming 

 interests, and the advantages of the 

 work of this first season are simply in- 

 calculable. We believe that one of the 

 certain results is a general awakening of 

 the farmers of this county to the need 

 of better seeds and up-to-date methods 

 of farming. 



It must be remembered that the sow- 

 ing that has been made this last year has 

 been made under the most adverse cir- 

 cumstances imaginable. Adverse crop 

 ionditious have existed from the very 

 beginning of the work. 



We earnestly petition that the good 

 work be continued in this county on just 

 as large a scale as possible, and we pledge 

 the same our hearty co-operation and 

 encouragement. * * * 



John R. Hearne, 

 President, Board of Trade, and Presi- 

 dent, Royal National Bank. 



H. W. Watts, 

 Ex-Sheriff, Anderson County. 



R. R. Claridge, 

 President, Texas Div., Southern Corn 

 Association. 



Don M. Barrett, 

 Ex-Tax Collector, Anderson County. 

 Y. L. Jones, 

 Merchant. 



H. Horwitz, 

 Merchant. 



S. M. Paul, 

 Farmer. 

 J. J. Strickland, 

 Representative, Thirtieth Legislature. 



* The yields of cotton and corn given are un- 

 usually low because of tho excessive rainfall. 



