The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-10-10

haiS NNOiAs Nait. ahu Ocel u tho hhooe Vi-
ficient and economical remedies of com
batting plant and animal diseases and
Of insect enemies and to determine the
cheapest and best feeding rations for
farm animals. q The PRONUNCIATION
of scientific agricultural information
bulletins and the agricultural
press.
The results of experiment station
work are: l. Farmers and planters
have found it impossible to carry out
experiments for themselves and have |
encouraged the establishment of sta
tons in every state in the union. =.
The results of similar experiments |
upon different soils are variable, and
have led to a general classification of
the soils of each state, and as far as
has been possible a station or sub sta
ton he's been placed on each in order to
reach results that will benefit the peo-
pie of each section. To particularize:
The soils of Louisiana have been di-
vided into three main classes, WIS.,: The
ping soil, represented in the expert
ment station at Calhoun; the bluff soil,
represented in the experiment station
at Baton Rouge and the alluvial soil,
represented in the experiment station
at Audubon park, New Orleans. The
crops grown upon these stations
differ greatly. Alfalfa, which is such
a success upon the alluvial lands, is a
failure, in the bluff and pine woods
sections. Sugar cane and cotton are
the main crops experimental with in
the station in New Orleans, and the
experiments are conducted in such
way as to meet the needs of planters,
while at Baton Rouge cotton, corn, to-
bacco, the rearing of cattle dairy and
beef, and general diversified farming
form the basis of the experiments,
and these are conducted, not SO much
to meet the needs of the planters and
large land owners, but are especially
outlined to meet the demands of
small farmers. 3. The result of this
division of experiment station inter
est in Louisiana has been a general
revival of agricultural interests
throughout the state, for, gener-
ally speaking, the stations are within
the reach of the farmers and planters
of the particular section the station
represents. and ocular demonstrations
of the success or failure OF the tests
being made are possible at any time.
This result may be obtained by any
other state possessing characteristic
differences in soil constitution. In
Mississippi, lime stone (cretaceous)
and piny woods, bluff and alluvial
tertiary form the important soil di-
visions, and it is not expected that one
station, located upon the limestone di-
vision, and branch section in the piny
woods section, will meet the needs of
the two other and larger areas.
Some specific reasons why a single
demands of an entire state will prove
interesting:
| irst-Implements tested and rec
commended for the cultivation of crops
grown upon light lands will prove of
little or no value for alluvial sec
tons.
Second-Varieties of staple crops
giving the greatest yields on light
lands are likely to prove failure up
on alluvial lands, and plants discarded
as valueless for light lands may ade-
quately meet the needs of the alluvial
planter.
Third Fertilizer experiments con
Quoted upon light lands and suitable
formula recommended for such, are
not in proper proportions and fire.
quently not at all suitable for allu-
vial lands.
Fourth The plant and animal dis
eases, as we'll as insect pests, are gen
orally peculiar to particular sections,
and, perhaps to the character of the
soil, and thus those of alluvial dis
trlcts are vastly different from those
infesting hill sections.
Fifth-Planters with interests en-
tirely different from those of the di-
versified farmer usually possess al
luvial lands.
SiXth-The above differences have
led to Indifference on the part of far
mers and others to the results Of
experiment station work outside of
the soil section in which they are
interested
Seventh States possessing stations
upon the different soil areas lave
made more rapid asricul ural pragr, IS
than those in which bat ii single sia
ton eXists.-PicGyHHe Jackson BIZ
redu.