Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-11-12
GIVING EMPHASIS
TO D|VERS|F|CT|ON
Farm oemonstrator Urges Farmers
Not to Abandon oiversihestion
and Go Sack to Affection.

and Go Back TO Affection.
A year ago there was a great deal
OF interest being taken by the farm.
ers and others throughout the county
In what was then called the diversin.
cation and marketing movement that
had been started and partially organ.
ized. This movement. according to
the judgment OF the writer. was one
OF the most important that has ever
been started among the people OF
Brazos County For different reasons
this organization was never complet.
ed. Consequently. the marketing
branch of II has not amounted to any
thing scarcely. from the fact that the
farmers have made very little organ.
lied effort toward marketing their
produce. But according to the way
| | see Il. the diversihcation movement
has been worth thousands OF dollars
to the people OF the county Not only
to Brazos County. but to the whole
state
Last year. Il will be remembered.
we had nearly $4,000 bales OF cotton
marketed In Bryan. We had over four
million bales In the State. Right In
connection with that big crop the
people were In the worst financial
strain they have ever been. The
conditions we're awful. such as none
OF us ever want to see again. From
the pressure OF those hard times the
farmers were forced Il use the word
forced" advisedly. for that was the
only thing that ever could have made
them change) to diversity their crops
and reduce their cotton acreage. Now
notwithstanding we have had more
Calam'ties and unfavorable seasons
to contend with this year than any
year any OF us ever saw. still the
whole scheme OF dlversiication has
worked like charm. and notwith
standing we are going to market
about ten thousand bales Of cotton
less than we did last year. the peo-
pie are In hundred per cent better
shape than they were at that time.
In the last thirty days the writer has
interviewed many farmers through.
out the county In regard to how they
were coming out with the present
years work. Meny Of these men
have answered. AN right" While
numbers Of them have told me they
are In hard shape" and are not 90
ing to get out Of debt. but without
single exception they have told me
Il was last years debts that were
causing them the trouble: that so far
as the present crop is concerned they
would have come out ahead. but hav.
Ing TO carry heavy debts from last
year they we're again to be hard
pressed through another year.
And right here Is where the danger
IL going To come In These same men
who got In debt last year and are
HAVING to make all kinds OF shifts to
get these debts carried over another
year are going to be very greatly
tempted under the present good price
OF cotton and cottonseed to leave OF
diversihcat'on and go back and plant
the whole earth" in cotton again.
Wy farmer friends, In the name OF all
reason, don't do this. II you do. Il
Will be almost equivalent to suicide.
Resolve right now and start right now
to prepare your land to plant a sui.
tcient acreage In diversified crops to
insure you bountiful supply OF the
things you need at home. And then
plant what cotton you can cultivate
easily and well. and you will come
out all right
The most fatal thing and the great.
est calamity. as ! see II today. would
be for the people of the State and
the south to plant large acreage in
cotton next year to the neglect of
other crops that bring prosperity and
happiness to our Southern homes. II
does seem to this writer that the con.
dition OF the people OF this section
today with short cotton crop. com.
pared TO the condition OF the same
people year ago with a large cot.
ton crOD would ba nm ohIacf iasann