Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1903-01-29
WHAT IS A FARMERS INSTITUTED
No Expense Attached TO Membership
No Schemes 10 be Promoted.

l wish every farmer iii Brazos
J county would, at some time be-
tween now and next Saturday,
give the above question just ten
consecutive minutes thought. |
am sure that IL they would there
would he no reasonable cause for
complaint of the small attendance
of farmers at the next meeting of
the Brazos County Farmers lnsti-
tute or of any meeting again Of the
same in the future. | can attrib-
ute your lack Of interest, brother,
farmer TO no other cause than that
you have not attended one of the
meetings nor have stopped to think
of what farmers institute means,
or of its objects and its specific i'm.
portance to the progress OF our
agriculture. have taken a few
minutes time to ask myself the
question that wish you to inves-
tigate.
In the abstract the definition Of
the words farmers institute must
be farmers institution, farmers ed
ucation; the dicussion Of farmers
interests, and the principles Of
agriculture.
Then the Brazos County Farm.
ers' Institute is an organized soci-
ETY. established by the authority Of
each individual for their mutual
instruction and education; mutual
Advancement of agricultural inter
ests and principles; not only in
business but also in pleasures. 1t
| is bound to be a grand institution
I for the farmer and his noble call.
ing. | will 60 TO the meeting and
join il, and help it out at least by
my presence all can and get all
the benefit from it for myself that
! can The above is my idea of
the farmers institute and my con-
illusions. How does it compare
with yours? How about those lines
from Pope?
and vhat should most excite a mutual fame.
Your rural cares and pleasures are the same"
It's an established proposition
that two heads are better than one.
Then why not get together and
help bear one another's cares and /
promote each others pleasures. /
We can do this in farmers insti. /
tute without the hazarding Of our
finances one cent.
There are no financial ventures
To- be connected with the farmers
institute. If you should want a
truck growers association or any
other kind of business venture you
would have 10 go outside of the
farmers institute TO organize it.
Our farmers institute is purely
what its name implies-educational
and instructive. This alone is
bound to promote our every inter-
est and where is there any risk in
it? Where is the.e any danger Of
losing
The institute is ours to make us
more competent, and competency
is the best incentive to industry. .
You know that with the proper in.
centiye TO bear us on no hard work
ever hurts u.s. 10 is the work with
out the incentive that makes a fell
low lead his horse to the barn in
the evening with trembling knees
and aching head, deaf TO the mock
ing birds sweetest song and blind
10 "the wild flowers modest nod
along the trail.
You are a farmer because YOU
love the farm; you love nature;
you love and esteem noble agricul-
ture' II you were farming with
no other incentive than the dollar
you were certainly in "hard way
to serve the Lord, and very likely
you would be better situated were
you in "coal cabin" or "carry-
ing the hod' somewhere.
But ! believe there are very few
armers tn at do not love and es-
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