Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-03
COOPERATION URGED
IN PRESENT CRISIS
Clarence ousley Urges Cooperation
and Mutual Helpfulness to Meet
Present Situation.
To the Post.

ton Needed" in the Post OF Noyem-
Der 80 You well say: III our Ma
tional and State Departments OF Agri'
culture and the extension departments
OF our own State University and our
Agricultural and Mechanical College
desire TO render real service to agri'
culture their energies must be direct
ed to the individual farm and farmer.
Specific work is needed for each 10.
cality and must be done II plan OF
diversification and rotation is to give
the relief sought"
This is precisely what the college
extension service is doing and my In
formation is that other agencies are
doing somewhat similar work. Both
the university and the State Depart
ment of Agriculture are cooperating
with us In extending the studies and
the expert advice OF the college stan
Early In the session we foresaw
that legislative efforts OF relief would
fail or be disappointing, and we set
about making a careful study OF the
State by sections and OF available
substitute money crops based upon
the demonstrations OF the experiment
stations and the observations OF the
college experts extending over long
period. This study was reduced to
bulletin form and is now being widely
circulated. II divides the State into
seven sections and submits the crops
best adopted to each. with advice as
to preparation OF soil, cultivating and
marketing, with special emphasis
upon organization for marketing In
bulk.
II cannot be stressed too much that
marketing plans are necessary for sue
cess in diversified farming. Not even
hogs or poultry may be marketed so
simply as cotton, which may be sold
at any railroad station in the South
al any hour OF the day for some price.
Intimately related to marketing,
and a condition precedent to a new
system OF farming. is a basis OF credit
for the growing Of new crops. The
farmer who Is most in need OF our
HELM is the allcotton farmer whose
cotton will not pay his debts and who
must be sustained until a new crop
comes to market.
Thus the problem becomes much
more complicated than the average
exponent of diversification realizes
when he utters such slogans as plant
hogs" Give at home etc.
Hence the need. as we see it, OF
three distinct but intimately related
lines Of endeavor, viz:
/ l. The particular crops suited "a
each locality, with due regard to what
the farmer Is able TO do under sur.
rounding circumstances and with In
telligent study Of the new crops
.. Intimate and helpful coOpera
lion between business men and farm
ers both by way Of understanding
their mutual interests and by way o
supplying their mutual requirement.
the banker or merchant to furnisl
definite and cheap credit, the farme
TO pay what he can as soon as he car
to relieve the commercial strain.
3. Organization by neighborhood
and counties or shipping regions Il
agree definitely upon acreage in new
crops, in order that probable market
ing needs may be studied, and thel
TO market in bulk when the product
are ready.
We will not get anywhere in pei
manent diversifcation reform withou
observing these conditions and estal
fishing these relations. The iniun'
ton to reduce cotton acreage is NEAR
2 ingless to the farmer who has n
other basis of credit than cotton o
! who has no facilities for marketing O
converting other products than co
. ton.
These are the reasons for our pre-
ent plan of operation. We have no.
three teams in the field-we woul
have ten II we had the money to pa!
them 49, holding preliminary COME
ences with business men and arrani
+ ing for later conferences with farm
ers. We hope in this way to cove
sixty to one hundred of the principi
= cotton growing counties by the middl
= of February, and we will pursue I'll
i work upon a broader scale of instru
ton in cultivation and aid In marke
ing through the spring and summer
the Legislature to meet in Januar
will supply the small sum require,
Meanwhile our district and count
demonstration agents have promote
u many cooperative efforts for financir
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