The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-07-22

! no microscope can fathom: in fact,
/ Gods laws for the benefit of the farmer go
on beneath the soil. Millions upon millions
of vegetable cells ferment with elementary
life, and conspiring with gentle rains, fall
ing dews. bright sunshine and genial air,
transform dull inert mineral matter into
protean forms and chameleon tints of leaf
and stock, boil and fibre, flower and fruit.
'sTruly the undevout farmer is mad
! One other point and am through. The
farm is the home of the farmer. We a
nation of Wanderers; here to day and gone
| to morrow.
We through this world like 4 child at feast
! Who but sips of sweets and is off for the
And when the profits begin be small in the East.
We order our wings and are off for the West
| This must stop ere any any country can
prosper. Every farmer should throw out
the sheet anchor of his life and resolve tina,
let others do as they may, that he and his
family will reside here forever. Yes, build
! a home worthy of that angelic creature
whom you are proud to call your wife.
! Improve it, Surround it with comfort and
( luxury. Plant your orchards and gardens,
raise live STOCK and in every way improve
and beautify your possessions. Let your
! children plant trees. and weave around them
| those CncrlSnct TohllnCeS OK youth WHICH
! shall draw them with the tender affection
back the charmed spot when old age
| shall come. Yes, 4 home. where mother
lives. where children are born and fathers
are to die. Into the fields Come and reap
new generations. Out of the fields and into
the family graveyard pass old generations.
Yes, home, the tittest earthly type of
heaven: and my word for it that each sue
affection upon it, and use increasing efforts
| to enhance its charms and multiply its adj
van,ages. Yes, more. in tina, home will
side the highest type of citizenship. obedient
; to its laws, a supporter of church and school,
and promoter of all good enterprises
In conclusion, the farmer who cultivates
the soil exclusively for the lucre it brings
him. or regards the farm temporary
abode to be Impoverished and abandoned
as carly as possible, is truly object of
pity. but he who rises to the hight of an in
telligent understanding of the many princi-
plies which underly his work. and proper
application of the latter the needs and
requirements of his soil and plants, and
views each day the responsive growth to his
intelligent action, builds home, lives
with nature, communes with God, is de
a happy, prosperous contended man. Then
Clear brown sward to meet the coulter's sleann
10! OH he comes behind MS smokn- team
With tolls bright dcwdrop his suriburnt brow.
Lord of the earth. the hero OF the pillow.
read a very well-considered and
practical paper on dairying in
Southwest Louisiana. The next is
sue of The Gazette will contain Mr..
Jenkins paper.
Mr.. Ben Avant's paper treated
of stock-raising in Southwest Louis
lana. Mr.. Avant was quite humO:-
Gus at times and caused consider
good one.
DR.. w. H. Dalrymple, the we'll
known State veterinarian, enter
tanned the audience with a very
learned treatise on beef-raising in
Southwest Louisiana. No one is
better qualified to speak on all that
pertains to stock than DR.. Dalrvm-
pie. We will publish the doctors
able paper in future issue.
Careless farming in Southwest
Louisiana was we'll handled by Mr..
W. r. Foote, a successful farmer Of
the second ward of this parish.
During the afternoon session Gen.
Leon Jastremski, who, by the way,
was a resident of this town in his boy
hood days, made a sensible talk on
diversified farming The general
spoke in French.
A night session was attended
mostly by the people of the town.
A paper entitled ''Irrigation,
Factories and Immigration" was
read by Gen. Jastremski. commits
sioner of agriculture. This was
followed by DIR. Fred Mayer, who
argued in eloquent language and
sound logic that "the only relief of
the cotton farmer is in co-opera
tive cotton factory"
Col. Gus A. Breaux was called
upon by DR.. Stubbs to speak on
industrial education. The colonel
is always ready to make good
speech, but last Monday he seemed
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