Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-09-10
LESSONS FROM
FARM EXHIBITS
By L. NJ. HEWITT.

BY l.. NJ. HEWITT.
A few days ago there appeared n
The Eagle editorial notes a comment
on some farmers assertion that cotton
| is the only profitable crop that can
be grown in this territory. 1t is per-
fectly true that If the white man has
plantation SO large that he Is COM
PEELED to depend upon colored labor
TO make his crop, corn and cotton are
all he can hope for until the white
man educates the colored labor in di-
versified agriculture. The principal
difficulty heretofore in the education
of the colored race has been that they
interpreted an education to mean no
more work, but 1t should mean to
them means of more and better
work. When the colored laborer has
learned scientific farming, and will
work, diversified farming on the large
plantation will prove as profitable as
the small farm does today The cost
of living depends upon the product of
the farm. If the farmers of Brazos
county continue to bend every energy
to raise cotton, and then pay ont half
of it's product for sustenance, it's go.
| ing to be a case of rob Peter to pay
Paul forever, and the cost of living is
going to skyrocket continually. But
actual demonstration proves that ev-
cry farmer may produce his own liv-
ing, and good money crop also.
On Labor Day the Commercial Club
arranged for display of farm prod
ucts in addition to the boys and girls
corn club show. There were large
number of general farm exhibits, each
of which was taken from growing
crops, with the exception of the corn
and canned goods. The large variety
of canned goods proved that every
| farmer may preserve his entire years
necessities. There were vegetables of
every variety, fruits in abundance, not
thing in the line of table provisions
lacking in this great display. The
most astonishing display in the great
parade was the exhibition on wheels
from Mr.. Tom Halls farm near Steep
Hollow. Everything needed by man
or beast, and all produced at reason
able effort.
| The boys corn show was one OF the
best ever held in this part of the state
and the records of the different items
of expense in producing given num-
| Der of bushels demonstrate the great
waste of energy in buying instead OF
producing this item of expense on the
farm.
| Does 1t pay to diversity? Let the
system answer. Everybody in Brazos
county knows Fritz Yeager. A visit to
his truck farm is a source of pleasure
as well as profit to anyone wishing
| information in truck gardening. It's
only a few years ago that the farm
was purchased by him, and it had
been "cottoned to DEATH" He now has
about ten acres of it under irrigation
and good cultivation. The other TWEEN
ty is in corn. He has some truck to
sell all the time. and his books show
that his products average over $15
per day, and with the prospects from
the growing vegetables he expects to
close the year with even a better
showing This is only one of num-
Der of successful truck gardens near
Bryan, and cannery at Bryan would
no doubt put hundreds of acres of idle
land into proftably producing truck
| patches.
! Oh, no. Mr.. Yeager has no expen-
sive plant. He has two gasoline en-
/ gines, but an unlimited supply of wa
ter. And Fritz knows how to do the
work