Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-06-19
DEMONSTRATION
AGENTS GOODBYE
Goes to Other Fields, Thanks Friends
for Cooperation and Reviews
Work Done In This County.

In retiring from the position OF
county agent for the Farmers Co
operative Demonstration Work for
Brazos County, do 1t with the great
est feeling of hesitancy and regret.
For a person to go into a new field
and take up an entirely new work
after having lived and labored with
and among one people the greater
part Of a good long life, It is no easy
nor pleasant task to sever the ties OF
relationship that have been forming
themselves and binding me closer to
these people each day for all these
years. Having been honored by these
people with so many positions Of pub
lie trust, feel now that / can never
repay them for it all, except 1t be
with lasting debt OF gratitude with
which my heart shall be filled as long
as ! live.
While | feel that I have come short
Of the full discharge Of all these
trusts, yet In retiring feel that !
have discharged them to the very
best Of my ability, and so well have
| succeeded in this that I can truth.
fully state that have never had one
charge brought against me for dere.
lictness in office. In regard to the
position that\I now resign, that OF
county agent for the demonstration
work, will say that 1t is with special
regret, from the fact that have not
been able to do all the good that !
wanted to do. This Is not on account
Of feeling that have failed to make
an honest effort to do what | could,
nor that feel that | have been in.
capacitated to do the work efficiently,
but 1t has come from the fact that !
have been unable to get the full CO.
operation Of some Of the men, who
thought would, and yet think, should
have stood the closest by me and rem.
dered me the greatest service In max.
ing the work greater success. After
all am very thankful that | have
been enabled to do as much as have
done. II is gratifying indeed to note
the many changes for the better tina,
are to be seen on every hand -
changes, many Of which. were not
thought of in the county prior TO the
time | took charge OF the work lit
tie over four years ago. At that tim,
there was not one good dairy COW IN
the county to where there are nov
ten, and ] believe | could truthful,
say twenty-five. At that time Their,
were less than ten cream saparators
now there are more than a hundred
There was not a cooperative cream
route thought OF. today there are sew
eral, and will be more added very
soon. Last fall and winter there wer,
five big fat hogs owned by the farm
. ers to where there was one four year
ago. There has been great In
crease In the importation OF pure bre,
live stock Of all kinds for breeding
purposes. There was. outside OF thos,
at A. & NJ. College, one silo in III,
county; today there are twelve. an,
would have been fifty or more ha,
II not been for the low price OF cot
ton two years ago. and the storm O
last August. The use OF farm i'm
PIGMENTS OF pe improved kinds, sucl
! as breaking plows. cultivators. ridinI
planters, disc. section and other kind
OF harrows and many other kinds hay
= increased at least 500 per cent. Quit
a large acreage OF hill lands hav
J. been terraced In different parts O
the county. and would say In r,
gard to terracing. that this work 1
Just getting started. as | have alread
y engaged TO terrace hundreds OF acre
y this coming fall. Numbers OF wood
d pastures have been cleared up an
L cleaned out, proving itself In ever
Q Instance to be one OF the very hes
t. paying pieces Of work that can b
s done on the farm. There are man
other changes that could be name,
but Will only name diyerslilcatIoi
q which has already been worth hun
q dreds OF thousands of dollars TO IN
a farmers OF the county. As an CIV
Is dence OF the benefits of diversificstio
n will say thht during the spring {
:. the first year that I had the worl
% at least half. and ! am sure more tina
half, OF my good friends where woul
stop to stay all night would have
T. feed my horse with bought feed. Tn
At year. Notwithstanding the storm !,
ID last August which destroyed at lea
I'd one'third OF the corn crop. my hor.
q, has been fed scarcely time on 70,
lie that was not raised on the farm whe,
4. have stayed.
A large majority Of farmers are Sc
ing and considerinr THAR buai,o.s