Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-18
CRITICAL STAGE
FOR CORN HERE
Farm Demonstration Agent Tells Why
Corn Failures Come and
Offers Suggestions.

on the way home from the school
closing picnic at Alexander last sat
urday the writer met nine wagons on
the road containing teedstuiis Of one
sort or another. and when he struck
Main street near the Zee factory he
counted eighteen more wagons con
tanning feed OF different kinds. Now
he does not say that he saw twenty
seven wagon loads Of feed going out
for they were not all loads; in fact,
very few OF them were full loads,
Some o. them had only two or three
sacks and some two or three bushels
of corn IN the ear. which goes 10
prove that many Of these farmers are
compelled to buy feed only in a few
DAYS supply at a time, because many
OF them cannot make arrangements
to buy anything like a supply OF feed
To do them till they lay by their crops
II goes without saying that In buy
ing in these small quantities they are
compelled 10 pay more for Il than
they would II they could make ar
rangements to buy supply at once.
We may talk about business opening
up and hope for times 10 get better
until the crack OF doom, but general
prosperity will never come to the PEG
pie OF this country as long as every
road leading out from the county
town is full OF wagons hauling ont
hlgh.priced feed for plow stock TO be
paid for with cotton raised on ground
where It takes from three to six acres
to make a bale
Some one = ready to say: Your
argument Is all right, but how are
you going TO help yourself when the
seasons were 50 bad last year that
YOU lust could no, raise corn? Con-
seQueutly farmers are compelled 20
buy regardless OF price" In some ar.
ticles We wrote last year on this very
subiec, o, corn raising. we cited YOU
10 certain farmers living In different
parts OF the county who always raised
corn enough 70 do them aud nearly
always enough to sell some. | can
cite you again to these same men.
who have plenty Of corn to do them
and some OF them have been selling
corn this spring others will sell some
later on. and my argument still holds
good. that what one man can do on
certain kind Of soil any other man
can do u he tries In the right way.
Nine men out OF every ten who fail
ed to make corn last year abandoned
their corn patch just at the time Il
needed attention most and went and
stayed In their cotton fields. and now
lay their failure OF corn making TO
the bad season: while their nelghbors
living right by them stayed with their
corn at the critical time and are not
buying corn today This writer Is
glad. however. that there is more corn
growing in Brazos County today than
there ever was at any one time. and
as a general thing II Is in better con.
dition from a cultural standpoint, and
while II is yer. late and the sandy
land corn is very poor yet II Il Is
plcwed shallow every ten days Tor
two or three more times there will
be no question about It's making
good yield.
Right now is the danger period
should II come a wet spell a large
majority OF our farmers will take a
turning pillow and wrap this little corn
almost to the bud with wet sand and
run the middles out with a very small