Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-04-18

living expense in buying potatoes.
Likewise, II the farmer had surplus
OF hogs he could take them to the
packing house and either sell at q
profitable price or could have his meat
put up in the same way that he had
his canning done. There had also been
established at Bryan q modern cream
cry where farmers could sell cream at
a good price, and large number of
the younger farmers in the county
were keeping few cows and sending
their cream to the city twice each
week, thus furnishing ready money al.
the time. There was also great cold
storage establishment where all kinds
of farm products found ready market
every day in the year, and farmers
were beginning to raise onions and
potatoes for the early market, corn fdf
the July market and cotton remained
the fall product. OF course Harry had
been close observer during his
school days. He was paying his own
way through school and proposed to
get every advantage possible from 1t.
He had watched these developments
in the city, and determined to take
every advantage of them when he went
home. His first year on the farm was
spent mostly in construction work. He
provided for quantity Of dairy feed
by building large silo capable of
storing hundred tons of ensilage,
and to fill 1t up he raised thirty acres
Of corn and cowpeas. He had to buy
commercial fertilizer because he had
no barnyard manure, cattle never hav-
ing been housed on the farm.
In order to have an early crop to
sell to furnish him with funds, he
planted ten acres to onions and har-
vested them in May, realizing hand
some profit over the heavy fertilizer
bill. A careful system of bookkeeping
and records was established and he
could always tell just when a certain
field was planted, what kind and how
much fertilizer was used, total cost OF
the crop and its net result. In after
years, as his neighbors began to want
to profit by his experience, he found
these records of much assistance to
them. He began the first year to take
the cream from eight cows to the
creamery. He was nine miles away,
and 1t was slow work travelling eight
cen miles every three days, but the
profit was too great to be abandoned
The second year two of his neighbors
wanted to send the product of few
cows to the creamery. Harry pur-
chased an automobile and then he
could take all three lots OF cream ev-
cry other day and only use an hours
time in doing 1t. During the winter of
the second year Harry was invited to
address several neighborhood meet
ings upon Pleasures and Profits OF
the Farm" His father had made no
secret of the attractive dividends
which had come to him from the re-
suit Of Harry's management. Harry
was willing to share his knowledge
with his neighbors. He had become
affiliated with the farmers institute,
an organization the object OF which is
to exchange experiences, discuss ways
and means Of lettering conditions, and
Is now recognized as an important ad-
junct to the A. & NJ. College farm ex-
tension work. Harry had also advised
his younger neighbors to take up the
farm extension correspondence course,
a department at A. & M. College es-
pecially for the use of farmers who
can not leave their farms but desire
to secure scientific farm education.
This course has been found an impor.
tant factor in the development OF the
farm resources all over the state as
well as in Brazos county.
1t has now been five years since
Harry Roberts left school and took
the management OF his fathers farm.
A group of men were standing on the
curb in front of the Farmers G. Mer-
chants Bank of Bryan recently, just
after the election of directors of the
bank had taken place, as Harry came