Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-02-21
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huN Iakir - tue ilorh Wtlcotne Wis
ilor that we have had Of late and
my last letter did not find it, way
Ia the waste basket, | will try Ia
give YOU u few more dots from the
Plains.
! have been over the country
some since nv last letter. It's all
a mistake about It being "a cold
here that one can't stick his head
out Of doors ia the winter time. la
reply 20 the question asked me by
"Siy Jim" OF Benson School House
la regard 10 the weather on the
Plains on January 20 and q, I
will say that IL WAS cold, yet not
50 cold Is 10 keep one from work.
Mr.. Charles Atkins aud myself
went twenty miles % Hereford
after lumber on the 9th of January
and returned ON the 18th. vet did
not get cold enough to complain,
though II is colder here than II j.
IN BrazOs county.
Mr. Lee and myself were much
pleased TO see The short article
written by our friend at Arp. smith
county, a. We three left old Bfazos
on the same day, but are sorry that
the recent cold snap got his tomato
crop. am confident that his
county will beat thi, for tomatoes,
a. il Is better cultivated. but will
venture to say that with the same
cultivation this land will yield 25 |
per cent more of anything that
grows out of the ground than
Smith county, because this is all |
good land.
Your correspondent had the |
pleasure Of spending the day last
Sunday with an old gentleman |
from Missouri who has been ou the
Plains three years and be says Il !
has been a. seasonabe here n
any country he ever lived in. He !
took me over hi- place and bowed /
me- what one could raise out here. 1
First thing We looked az Wa his |
herd of Hereford cattle of l6j head /
He refused SIS per head for hIs
calves last fail. His cattle are /
beauties and they are well cared /
for. We then went 10 hi- farm Of
100 acres of dark red loamv land
which he says will produce anv-
thing If properly cultivated. lie
has a splendid outfit Of farm nipple.
ments, such a. -ulky plows, double
di-c harroNs, double row planter, !
self binder and, in fact, everything |
one needs TO farm with. lie raised
good wheat and oats last year, and
will plant forty acres in oats this
year. He has in hi fields alfalfa.
Ted clover, timothy and bluegrass
aud says il doe a. well he as up
north. From the farm we went TO
his young orchard and flower gar.
len, and there saw some things
growing that never saw or heard
IF before. He gave the names of the
different fruits. flowers and berries
which are as follows Black berries.
iewberries, raspberries, straw Der.
les, gOOseberrles, currants, apples,
'ears, peaches, plums, grapes, per-
immons, cherries, roses, CHtaw bas, !
maple, birch, willow, poplar, box /
lder, elm, cottonwood and several =
inds of flowers that | didn't take 5
own. But | want to say 10 the 1
aaders of the Eagle that II takes y
reat deal of money and energy 10 4
ave all these things, and have 4
Ut little of either. =
firmly believe that this will 4
ec0me one Of the finest farming 4
-etions of Texas, but it will take =
me to develop the country aud 4
he people here may have some x
.ouble IN marketing their prod 3
ct- for want of railroad facilities. q
By the way think the people =
Bryan should "chip in" and
md the money to that poor fellow
West Texas TO pay his way back
) his old stamping ground. a. he
about one in ten thousand who
no wants to go back. All the
'ople We see from East Texas,
hen they move, are going farther