Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-11-27
DAY PLAN
STRONGLY ENDORSED
Reasons Stated Showing How the
Plan Would Benefit Farmers
Of tho County.

! saw IN The Eagle a few days ago
an interview from my good friend,
Billie Manthei OF Kurten, In which
he very inteligently advocates mar.
ket place and market day for Bryan.
think his position on the subject Is
well taken. and am fully in accord
with his ideas.
II We ever diversity our crops,
thing we are going to do because we
are going 10 have TO diversity, we
should have things 10 sell every week
the year round. II this diyerslhcation
Is carried on as successfully as IL
should be and as we hope and believe
Il will be. local market and mar
ket day will be absolutely necessary.
Rightly distributed. Bryan viii fur.
nish a market Tor a great deal OF our
country produce. The people of Bryan
would use a great deal more Of this
produce Of every kind II they had II
where they could get It fresh every
week or twice week. Especially
would Il be so with poultry and poul.
try products and dairy products at
reasonable prices. Have these days
AZ stated times where everybody
would be open to sell anything they
had. Thousands OF dollars would be
realized on stun that has heretofore
never been carried TO market and left
to perish az home.
These market days would not only
handle produce, but would include
livestock, in fact, everything a farm
er would have to sell. And all any.
body would have to do would be to
attend one OF these market days and
select what he wanted. On these fixed
market days farmer could always
get rid OF his stun at better prices
than when he undertakes to sell It I'm
an open market alone and unaided
At the recent little fair at the court
house there was quite good deal
OF poultry sold at prices far above
what II would have brought in the
open market. and the people who
bought Il were glad to get II at this
price, for I'm most instances they did
not even know that such fowls were
to be had I'm he county. The same
is true OF the hogs that were there.
W. y. Wilson OF Tabor brought
good wagOnload OF Duroc-Jerseys
down without any intention of enter
ing them tor prizes. but to let the
people know he had them for sale.
and he sold them all for a great deal
better price than he ever could had
he kept them az home Not only this.
but he has sold TWO or three since
the fair and has inquiries for more
II. Sealy OF Kurten had on exhibit
ton az that fair a certain kind OF
sweet potato that will. | am sure, in
crease the sweet potato crop in Bra.
zos County the coming year at least
- per cent. This was entirely new
potato for this county. and from its
size, splendid quality and immense
yielding ability, everybody tried to
engage seed from Mr.. Sealy, and mo-
doubt he could sell ten times as many
as he has a. fancy prices. al because
he exhibited them where the people
could see them and learn Of their ex.
celleut qualities
Turkey day last Monday further
more clearly proved the good there is
in this marke- day proposition than
that has happened in Bryan.
Il has been estimated that az least
$50 turkeys we're sold to the citizens
from the wagons and nobody was
asked to buy a single one OF them
1t being turkey day" everybody
wanted to buy a turkey and took them
of the wagons before the driver could
get down TO Smiths place, notwith.
standing they had to pay one and a
half cents per pound more than the
price had been up 20 that morning.
l doubt II any farmer coming into
town on an ordinary day without any
previous turkey agitation, could have
sold half that number at ten cents per
pound.
Let US all get to work on this mar.
ket day proposition. Let the Com
Club ge. busy procuring and
fixing the place. Let the farmers
begin now to prepare to furnish the
produce for these market days, and
then set the day and begin at once
to do business, and there will be no
question as to the success of such a
scheme. A. w. BUCHANAN,
Demonstration Agent for Brazos
County.