Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-04-01
a, MODEL FARM.
Pen Picture OF Prosperous Farm and
Methods That Bring Success.

Four miles east Of Wheelock on the
old San Antonio road, lying on the
Brazos County side OF the road, there
is the nearest approach to an up-to-
date model farm OF anything that the
writer has seen in this section of
Texas. To describe this farm, will
begin by saying that the land is real
good quality of black. prairie land and
is now in what we might say per.
feet state OF cultivation. This, of
course has been brought about by the
right kind of implements and teams,
as 1t cannot be done in any other man
ner. There. are twenty different
houses on his residence plat. In this
group are included a large, comfort
able dwelling. typical farmers home,
nicely painted and everything in per-
feet order on the inside. Then there
are three good sized barns, two for
horses and mules and one for cattle;
large and sensibly built poultry
house; good fyproof smokehouse;
implement house; a gear house; black
smith shop hog houses, and even dog
houses 1t was a treat to look at his
work stock, both horses and mules;
about as fine as this country affords.
Two span of the mules could not be
bought for $500 each, while there was
not a scrub in the bunch. And when
these mules and horses were hooked
up for the pillow they had on leather
| harness that did not cost less than
S25 and some of them as high as $40
a set. Leather traces to plow with,
that will never rub the hair off the
mules body or legs. When | saw
these mules they were hooked to
riding planters and were planting cot
ton at the rate of ten acres a day for
each planter. These planters were
opening, distributing fertilizer plant
ing the seed and dragging or firming
the ground behind the planters as they
went. This looked like business to
"sandlapper" The third span OF
mules was hooked to section har-
row and was going across the rows
of corn that had been planted before
the rains and was leaving the ground
in the prettiest fix this writer ever
saw. and the boy who was driving in
formed the writer that he could easily
cover twenty acres per day with this
team and harrow. Right here the
writer wants to say that twenty acres
OF land put in that condition in one
day with one boy and one team is the
best days work that he ever saw
done on the farm.
This farmer has nice cattle, bu
could make some improvement jus
here by getting and breeding thor
oughbred cattle. His hogs were. yer.
J fine. The one thing lacking Just her
. was a hog pasture with living waite
in it. but his pens and hog houses ar
good. and he raises fine hogs, bu
could do it at less cost had he a goo
l. pasture. No special attention wa
given to the poultry, but there wer
i $50 hens running on the yard and egg
4 in superabundance. The place is we
located and Systematically laid OF
a fencing good, but his farm gates wer
not what they should be. His waite
, supply is poor, but he is fixing to ge
IL perfected. as he already has h
windmill UP and we'll dug. but not su
ficiently curbed. This man is one
u our progressive Bohemian farmer
who moved out of the Steep Hollo'
e community thirteen years ago, sellin
his little farm out there for s1,OOO an
10 paying 5000 cash on the first tract
d land he bought where he now live
and spending the other $500 for
house and other improvements. Il
now owns nearly 500 acres, all pal
u for. that you could not buy today ft
SIS per acre. He is out of debt an
has both cotton and corn to SELL TIL
h is what call a good farm, a goo
50 farmer and good farming. This
what this man has done in thrice
It years. and he has been subjected
ID the same credit and marketing sy
TENS that all other farmers have ha
to live under,