Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-02-11
GIRLS CLUB LEADERS
MEET IN BRYAN
First Session Held Today at Carnegie
Hall-WiIl Remain in Session
Until Saturday.

The first session of the special meet
ing Of the lady agents working In
Texas in Girls Canning Club work
was called to order this morning at
Carnegie Hall by Miss Bernice Carter
assistant State agent in charge OF
girls club work. Addresses OF well
come were delivered by l.. NJ. Hewitt
of this city, Col. w. F. Proctor OF
College Station, Prof. E. ]. Kyle OF
College Station and H. H. Williamson,
assistant State agent in club work.
located at College Station.
The chief address of the session was
delivered by o. B. Martin OF the wash
ington office Mr.. Martin Is the neid
agent for Texas and Oklahoma in this
work. and was one of the first men
To engage in this club work in this
country. His talk was of historical
nature. giving the history of the work
from its beginning in DR.. s. A. Knapp
who had only one demonstrators In
Texas in this kind Of work, about
eleven years ago. From this small
beginning the work has grown by
leaps and bounds. This year there
will be at least three hundred lady
agents engaged in this work in the
South alone.
Mr.. Martin told the ladies present.
that they could influence education
more than the college could, because
OF the fact that they were directly In
touch with the farming people. The
world has heard OF this work. and
representatives from many foreign
countries have come to the office al
| Washington to learn of 1t and carry
| details back to their native lands IN
| order to inagurate the work there.
A. w. Buchanan, county agent fol
Brazos County, made an impromptl
speech on the work among the boys
in this county. While the average
yield of corn in Brazos County for the
last season was only seventeen bush
els to the acre, the forty-four boys IL
the Corn Club here made an average
yield of over forty-seven bushels tC
/ the acre. This is one OF the many re
ports which prove the value of this
work to the community first. then tC
the State as a whole and then to the
entire country. No man can give II
figures the value OF such a work. The
very fact that the boy is producins
more corn to the acre than his father
is, is proof enough that fhis is a grea
work. which should be fostered ant
encouraged by every person, whether
he be banker, merchant, professional
man or directly interested in agricul
ture in any of it's phases.
Miss Mary f. Cresswell, who is one
of the assistants in charge of girls
work, delivered a short talk on thu
importance of the work, and CAV,
some valuable suggestions to the la
dies as how best to begin the worl
and secure the cooperation of tn
girls and their parents. The agent
should enter the work with a who'll
heart and the success that they will
attain is directly dependent upon tn
amount of spirit they have in thei
work This great movement is no
intended for the coming generation a
together; but it is helping all tn
people connected with farm life d
rectly and everyone else indirectly
1t is necessary for these agents an
demonstrators to have the COOPER
ton of all the people in order to II
terest the parents of the girls and t