Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-30
CONTRIBUTED ~ COMMERCIAL
sEcRETARIEs' ASSOCIATION.


| Plans are being made to have The
second annual farmers short course
at College Station during January,
1912, under the auspices OF the extern
sion department. This course begius
January and lasts two weeks, and Is
filled with things of practical interest
ito farmers. The entire time Is devoted
Ito practical demonstration work, such
as stock judging, veterinary science,
pruning, budding, grating, dairying,
etc. The short courses for farmers
have become popular In late years
Throughout all the United States. No
entrance fees are charged and no age
limit is placed on the attendants. The
A. & M. college of Texas instituted
this course last year with such sue
cess that 1t was decided to make 1t
permanent part OF the curriculum of
the institution. A. & M. college Is do
ing a great work for the farmers of
Texas by, encouraging better methods
OF agriculture.
1t has been said that England on
space Of less than ten square miles
could place all her cotton mills and
within that enclosure she could take
the entire production OF the Southern
cotton farms, and by manufacturing
create as much wealth and employ
as much labor as the South produces
and employs in all her cotton fields.
This Illustration can be applied to
every city in Texas A factory can be
erected on vacant lot and create
more wealth and employ more labor
than 10000 acres OF cultivated land.
State Superintendent Of instruction
Bradley has given out a report in
which he states that Texas has made
more progress during the past two
years than any other state in the
Union i'm the erection and equipment
of schoolhouses. During the scholas-
tic year ending August 81, 1910, SAB
public schoolhosses were erected in
common and 127 in independent school
districts. This is at the rate Of over
two houses per day at an average cost
of $334o. The educational institutions
Of Texas are among the best equipped
in the South, and the schools and col |
leges OF the state are receiving large |
percentage of scholars formerly. sent !
away to the universities and colleges |
of other states.
The Texas farmer rises early in the |
morning and slips into clothes made |
in New York and shoes made in Mas |
sachusetts. He cuts his frewood with |
an axe made i'm Pennsylvania and an
axe handle made in Wisconsin. He |
builds fire in a stove made in Nichi- |
gan His wife dresses in goods woven
in New Hampshire and proceeds to
fry bacon that was packed in Illinois
and potatoes that were grown in Col
orado. She makes biscuits of lard rem
dered in Nebraska and wheat grown
in Kansas. At breakfast he eats from
dishes made in Ohio and uses tables
and chairs from MINNESOTA. He goes
to the field and uses a pillow from In
diana and hoe from Connecticut
When he retires to rest he blows out
lamp made in Chicago and fails
upon bed whose springs are made
in Pittsburg and whose blankets came
from San Francisco. But we prosper |
in spite of ourselves.
The commissioners court Of Tom |
Green county has granted the petition |
of number of prominent business
men for the establishment of an ex- !
perimental farm in Tom Green county !
and has set aside $500 to be used for
this purpose. The appropriation will |
be supplemented by 5000 from the
United States department of agricul-
ture. The Thirty-second legislature
passed law permitting the commits
sioners' court Of county to appro-
pirate not to exceed $1,000 for expert
mental and demonstration farms, and
as result many counties in the state
have made appropriations for agricul-
tural experiments.
AS an incentive to good roads, it is
as well to state that the development
Of auto traction and its possibilities
applied to suburban and interurban
traffic have made good roads neces-
sity and not a luxury. In Texas, as
elsewhere, they are destined to prove
a valuable help to steam railways, by