Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-08


and written by the republican news.
papers about better agricultural
methods" Self-interest, of course.
prompts every farmer to do every
thing that he can to get the best crops
possible and no incentive Is stronger
than seIfinterest. There are many
things that farmers would like TO do
that events prevent them from doing,
and there are things which they do
that they wish they had left undone.
II is so in every business and with
everyone. II the bay had not been cut
this morning. the rain would not have
spoiled it; but who is wise enough to
tell what the tickle weather will be?
IL It had not rained for weeks in the
spring. the cotton and the corn would
not have been so weedy; II would
have been possible to work 1t in sea
son. instead Of having to wait until
other crops needed attention. II 1t
had not been for the drouth. the crops
would have been better; but the farm
er Is not rainmaker and has TO ac-
cept the weather that nature provides
When the people get sick of repub
lican policies and corrupt misrule
some smart Aleck blames II on the
farmers, and the organs begin to
pipe in the same tune and demand
better agricultural methods
When insurgents insurge, the same
organs" blame 1t on the farmers and
insist that they have prospered
through republican legislation. al
though they admit the tariff should
have been more scientific"
Some railroad magnate has model
farm where everything that he raises
costs twice what it is worth, and even
the eggs cost one dollar per dozen,
and he thinks that the farmers should
follow his example OF intensive farm
ing" The agricultural department ex-
perts advise the farmers how to i'm
prove their soil and stock, but II their
advice were followed the farmers
would need the treasury of the United
States to draw upon and then require
an urgent deficiency appropriation. as
the experts" often do. to make both
ends meet.
II the farmers critics would try
their hand at farming, with the pres
ent lack of labor and not very effi-
cient at that. they would not carp so
much. 1t is dollars to doughnuts they
would admit failure, blame II on the
land or the weather, and then resume
their old occupation of scribblng
about what they don't know about
| farming
The agricultural department has just
discovered that the farmers ought to
raise more potatoes TO the acre, and
has sent experts to Europe to find out
how to do it. What they will learn
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than here for that sort of crop. and
any Pennsylvania Dutchman could
have told them so much without It
costing dollar. when they win spend
thousands
Other countries are sending experts
here to discover how we grow cotton,
and why 1t can't be grown as well or
better In Africa, Asia or South Amer
lea It Is probably question of eli
mate for the darkey and the old mule
can surely be duplicated in some fash
ion and there is no great secret in
! their meanderings.
If you have tried farming you will
know that ii is no picnic, and that
through republican policies all that
! you have to buy is at trust prices, and
for all that You have to sell YOU must
take what some combine will pay.
Yes, it is not all fun being farmer.
nor do they all ride in automobiles,
though the republican metropolitan
organs and the funny supplements
would try and make us believe that
4 the farmers are bigger fools than are
other mortals. Publicity
Bureau.