Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-12-04
FURTHER OBSERVATION ON
BOYS CORN CLUB WORK

The first thing that we will notice
f, is the vast difference of the yield OF
the two acres of hill land, one produc-
ing 40 bushels of heavy corn while
the other produced 1914 bushels of
light, inferior corn. The amount Of
fertilizer used was about Sne same,
and according to the boyd pwn state
ment the cultivation OF tN 19.bushel
acre cost 5 cents more than the 49,
bushel acre. want to say further
that the 49-bushel acre is not a large
yield. / really believe that this same
acre with proper attention can be
made within three years time to
produce rs bushels with average sea.
sons. In future article | will tell
how think 1t can be done. am sure
that these acres Of the larger yield,
the bottom lands, with the proper
preparation and cultivation can be in
creased from So bushels to 125 and
100 bushels. OF course, this will take
the very best of care and good sea-
sons, but it can be done,
The greatest lesson that all these
experiments teach is that corn can be
raised In Brazos county, and all over
the county in paying quantities--a
thing that is needed more than any
other one thing in our good county.
We have, naturally one of the very
best countries in the world, one in
which people can make living as
easy or easier than almost any other
country. But It will not just make 1t
anyhow. II will take systematic, in
telligent management Before the
farmers OF Brazos county can ever
hope to be prosperous and independ-
ent as they should be the soils of the
county must be built up. II makes no
difference what a mans opinion about
scientific farming is, he can not get
around the proposition that II he
keeps on farming for a livelihood he
must build up his soil. And the only
way his soil can ever be built up is
by an intelligent rotation of crops,
planted and cultivated with the view
of putting vegetable matter into his
soil, There is no land in Brazos coun-
ty that can be materially benefited by
. the application of commercial fertil-
szer alone, and there is no land-not
Ia single acre-in the county but that
can be made from % per cent to 100
fOer cent more productive by the
proper application or both vegetable
matter and commercial fertilizer COM
bined The poorest system OF agricul-
ture on this earth, and one that win
bankrupt any country in the world, is
the system wherein the farmers all
try to cultivate more land than they
can do well and always trying to take
.-pme'hing out OF the soil afa never
putting anything back into it,
Il is years experience of the corn
club boys in this county goes TO prove
that If everybody would take the same
care OF their corn during the cultivat-
ing and growing season, with the right
preparation before planting, Brazos
county would be a corn seller instead
of hard-pressed corn buyer. And the
object of the government in having
these demonstrations made right here
at home is to prove that these things
can be done. VIII the farmers of
Brazos county profit by this expert
ence? They will. and / know it will
not be long before we will see and
feel the salutary effects of the expert
eng
A. w. Buchanan.
Bryan, Texas, Dec 4, 1912.