The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-06

SeeOnV-Np nave Spflt buT '''htS
~ Investments in at her business. the
aking up of side lines and 10y get
ing ont of the profession as soon az
possible into other business, instend
# improving our farms, intrnsiiyin2
,ur nptho,is aud Identifying our
homes.
Thir.i-We have rejected for the
most part the advice aud the sug-
rpstions offered US hy the agricultur-
II departments of our State ami
national government and the various
agricultural papers and Writers,
which have been to so much adyan-
age to the more advanced farmers
If the North and East.
Now, we urge all farmers to decide
onee for all, whether or not they pre-
Ter agriculture asa profession to any
other, and ii not. that they get ont
ut once and begin that which they
do prefer.
Second-That each farmer will be-
gin to- look upon his farma his home
or the hulincr OF his natural life and
fur his children thereafter.
Third-That he begin ut once to
develop aud preserve tho strength
and fertility of his soil by deep pillow
ing and terracing if uplunds; by ro-
tation of crops and the planting OF
legumes for developing nitrogen pro-
ducing bacteria and 10y keeping a
crop suited tn the season growing
continuously thereon.
Fonrth-That We diversity by grow
ing more impr wed stock, more fruit
and more ferd for stock and food
crops, depending upon surpluses for
the small amount Of money necess-
airy under such syttem.
| Fifth-That we spend more time
aud money when available in the
Identifying of our homes, adding
lconveniences thereto and to the max
ing of the home and the farm the
most attractive and desirable place
on earth To live.
| Sixth-That We condemn the ex-
tensive use of ready mixed CONNER
-. md THAT whore
chemical fertilizers are necessary tn
piece out the barnyard supplies and
the compost heap and the work OF
the lpgumes, that we get the acid
phosphate. the kainite and other ele.
ments and make our own mixtures
suitable to our respective soils and
their varied conditions, urging ouI
people to remember that each COW
or horse on the farm, if properly cared
for, will produce ench year he bes
: of fertilizers to the value OF $50.
Seventh--That we urge our mem
bership To live upon their farms an'
within their incoIne, aud to avoi'
debt rs they would a pestilence
> knowing full well that independence
aud hence the ability to co-operat
in buying and selling is impossibl
= with debts and mortgages.
u Eighth-That we recommend cO-oI
: GRAFTON in buying and selling in bul
- for cash through our warehouses; an
" business agents, or any improvemer
= of the warehouse system, but We del
rec,,te the establishment of reta
stores or manufactures or any oth'
- business that properly belongs toal
. otiier profession, because it has
- tendency to take good farmers OF
of our profession and make sorl
merchants or other professionals OF
III of them.
Ninth-That we urge our membe
ship to take the monthly bulleti
ire aud reports of our agricultural al
experimental stations, which can
an had for asking and subscribe for o
elf or two good practical farm pape
ed and to- study them, and that We ur
M our official organ, The Banner,
he begin an agricultural department
all which pertinent and practical top
I'm ON farming can he discussed and {
he pprimrnts given toward educati
As our membership in the science OF
nd riculture.
of Tenth-That we urge our memb
it ship to attend our State Fair
,st Shrpveoort and their respective p;