Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-07-24
|APPEAL TO FARMERS
| OF BRAz0s COUNTY
Urged to Take Advantage of Farm.
ers' Congress and Be On Hand
One Thousand Strong.

The most important meeting that
the farmers of Texas and especially
of Brazos county will have the op.
portunity of attending during this
whole year, will be the meeting of
the Texas Farmers Congress, next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
July 30, 81 and Aug. l. This congress
has grown until it is now recognized
as one of the greatest farmers meet
ings in the whole world.
Its general usefulness and special
benefits to those who attend and are
interested are simply incalculable,
and how any farmer, who has to
make his living out of the soil, can
live within reach of these meetings
and not attend is more than | can
understand
There are hundreds of farmers who
pay their expenses and come hund:
reds of miles and never miss one of
these meetings and have been do
ing it for years. Why do they do
it? Simply because it pays them to
do it, 1t would be impossible to try
to detail the benefits that are to be
gotten from attending these meet
ings, but | will make this assertion;
that there is no man who can attend
any of them without catching some
idea that will do him good all his
life. Besides the benefits that are
to be derived by our home people,
it will show a county pride on their
part 1t will show that we appreciate
the fact that the great A, & NJ Col
lege is located here in our county.
a thing that | fear many of us have
it has been a subject of inquiry on
the part of people from distance
why it is that the people nearby the
College do not attend meetings any
more than they do. have been told
by some of the Agricultural profess
sors that many sections of the state
hundreds of miles away from the Col
lege derive more direct benefit from
it than our home farmers do from
the fact the home people do not avail
thmselves of the opportunities offer
ed them right at their door
Besides this our non-attendance on
these meetings, shows a lack of pro.
gress on the part of our home peo-
pie, which, of course, has a bad in
fluence on the hundreds of progress
sive farmers who are there from all
over this state.
When they come here and find 50
or a hundred Brazos county farmers
in attendance, where there should be
at least thousand, they go away say.
ing that the farmers of Brazos county
are an unprogressive set. and from
this impression they get the idea that
we live in very poor country, and
they 90 home saying that the Col.
lege is located in the wrong section
of the state. Now we all know that
the facts do not justify such con-
illusions We know from real facts
that We have one of the very best
counties and sections in all Texas.
The facts are, also, that our farmers
generally are progressive, but / must
say that we have not the public spirit
that we should have.
So ! appeal to every farmer in
Brazos county to begin now to make
extra preparation to attend this con-
gress, which is almost upon us. Let
us go there a thousand strong and
lot them know we are there. Let
them know that Brazos county is full
of as upto-date farmers as there are
in Texas That we have as
good country as any of them and far
better than many of them, and that
the great A. & M. College is located
exactly in the right place.
A. W. BUCHANAN.