Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-02-10
FARMERS MUST CROW
FOOD AND FEED
Movement Started TO Give Farmers
Cooperation Of Banks and
Merchants In Work.


Dallas. Tex, Feb. 0.-"somethlng
must be done at once TO induce the
farmers OF Texas to grow their own
food and feed for the coming year."
said II. NJ. Cottrell to a group of bust
ness men In Dallas recently. So
greatly did his declaration impress
them that William G. Breg. Alex
Sanger j. c. Duke. Il. o. Tension and
II. w, Higginbotham were appointed
members OF a committee TO urge the
cooperation OF the business men OF
Texas In securing the planting OF
crops that will furnish food and feed
to the people Of the State.
Fort Worth business men respond.
ed a. once when the matter was pre-.
scented TO them. and delegates were
appointed from that city representing
all lines OF business. who will take
equal part with those OF Dallas and
other cities. The first action taken
was by the agricultural committee Of
the Texas Bankers Association.
which al once sent letters to every
banker in the State.
The bankers committee wrote, IF
the usual acreage OF cotton is planted
this year and the yield Is fair. that
carried over will be twice the quantl-
~ that can be used and cotton will
be hard TO sell at four or five cents
pound A majority Of the cotton
growers raise cotton only buying
meat. -four. vegetables, fruit and con-
densed milk for the table, and grain
and hay to feed their teams. Three
hundred thousand farmers In this
State do not raise an acre OF hay or
forage.
I'VE urge YOU TO take mp the matter
with your business men and farmers.
Call them together and arrange to
have your community feed itself and
It's livestock for 1915
T.. o. Tension. chairman OF the
board OF directors Of the Federal Re.
serve Bank. said. THE Texas cotton
grover should produce food for his
family and feed for his stock in 1915
Then the bill az the store will be only
q few dollars. and no matter what the
price Of cotton the farmer will be
comfortable 4 brood SOW will raise
pigs for meat and market ] think a
loan on security of this kind safe and
desirable.
when diversifcation Is proposed
in cotton growing communities the
tendency is to begin planning for
truck crops.' Instead, would advise
staple crops. corn. peanuts. nonsae
charm sorghums and hay. They re
auire no special skill in shipping and
there Is ready market for them
Every farmer should investigate the
$4,000 prize offer and avail himself
of the bulletins and advice of the
Texas Industrial Congress"
A successful tenant farmer from
/ the southeastern portion OF Dallas
| County. one who pays S. an acre fol
his land. said. II hope the gentlemen
succeed in inducing every farmer Il
plant what he needs for family an'
stock. / regard II as right that
merchant or banker should maxi
loans TO those whose ability and iude
ment and success are such that ther'
is every reason to believe the loal
/ will be repaid Certainly the MAJ
who provides a garden TO feed hi
folks and field crops to feed his ami
mails shows more sound business
sense than one who is going to grow
cotton alone. Therefore he should b.
able TO get loans, If he needs them
more readily than a farmer who doe
not prepare to feed himself
When merchants and bankers II
the smaller cities of the state hav
been advised of the work of the For
Worth.Dallas committees, arrange
ments will be made for some hundre
representative from these cities I
visit and confer with merchants
bankers and farmers in the cotto
growing sections of the State, with
view Of making plain the aim of tn
committee to have each communit
and farmer plant such crops as wi
obviate the necessity Of buying foo
for the family or feed for the live
stock in 1915.
LET TEXAS FEED ITSELF
William G. Breg, Chairman,
Alex Sanger,
r. w. Higginbotham,
Z. o. Tension,
]. C. Duke,