The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-06-08

crops instead of bringing full returns,
due to the depletion of our soil, brings
perhaps two-thirds of a crop.
Gentlemen, how much money do you
Parish of Lafayette pays
away for feed stuffs and provisions,
most of which a genuine farmer would
never buy Of a store? The Parish OF
Lafayette has paid out since January
for corn, oats and hay alone $2O0,0oO.
For meats, lard, peas, Irish potatoes
over $500 A total OF $35o.0oo.
But that is not all. T~wo-thirds OF the
stock has not been fed for a month.
vet how many have given away corn
at five cents per gallon. We send
away s35O.0OO each year for products
that we should raise at home, we
simply rob ourselves of $4,000 LIN
coin once said, I do not know much
about political economy, but do know
that when We purchase a ton OF steel
rails from Great Britain for $4,000
we get the rails and Great Britain
gets the money, and when we pro-
duce the rails from u own mills, we
have both money and rails"
Presently we are in a state OF oe-
preston, our fair country, once the
| Ian dof Dixie" is in a state OF chaos
II is visited by an insect that a al
| fected all the of life.
The cotton gin, which generally
| sounds the keynote of activity and
| plenty when starting its wheels, is al
rest. the oil mill with its important
| functions to mankind is at a stand
| still. The merchant, the banker, the
doctor, the lawyer, all more than the
farmer. feel the loss from the Dol
weevil but, gentlemen, must this STOP
orr energy? In this fair country OF
ours. when upon n acre OF land we
can raise. sugar cane, rice, corn, hay
of several descriptions, truck farming
which embraces several crops, ucf
as onions, potatoes, cabbages, stra"
berries. any of which would bring us
more ready money than cotton?
The only excuse We can oner 10
our present condition and 1t is moi
valid one, Git is not an intelligent ex
cuse to offer,) is that we have no Sc
example to follow, and gentlemen O
the Farmers Club, right here l wis.,
to congratulate you upon your deserv
ing mission in aiding and each one o
YOU in giving his little mite toward
showing and helping his neighbo
farmer and assisting in developing tn
resources of this community. You
mission is still a nobler n when 20
. consider that you lead the way D
|! which thousands of farmers can BEN
!, fit themselves.
! In speaking of the products OF GU
|, sell we have failed to make mentio
r of the bad example we set also,
, paving other farmers in Kentuck
{ and Missouri to raise our mules, OF
, horses. our hogs and cattle, when it
!, known that we can raise as good stoc
: here as is raised anywhere. VIII,
r along these lines 1 am pleased to II
; form you that three weeks ago
gentleman from Indiana was wired
' come and see some colt races
Broussard, all home raised colts, an
t that gentleman, an expert in his lin
has obtained an option upon two
the animals and pronounced them tt
e best he had ever seen, and he wan
' them at s15OO.OO apiece.
0 Take the poultry end OF it, VIII
/ farmer cannot live upon a few acr'
of land raising corn and a good POT
try yard, and that to my idea wou
not be the worst occupation a roa
chicken, principally when cooked a
creole, cannot be excelled III II
menu.
I have one subject I wish to say
few words upon, that is the effect
the boil weevil upon the credit sy
tenn. l have often heard the sayil
that things are neither as good nor
bad as they appear, and the rema
wish to make is, that whilst we ha'
been temporarily affected, that punis
ment will have in its wake a great