St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-07-24
THE FARMERS MEET.
Proceedings of Institute
at the Courthouse
Thursday.

IL SuOulu nave UGGn, Out CnOS6 WI
did attend learned enough to know ths
there is money in the business for tn
successful grower.
Mayor Richard introduced the speak
ers with the announcement that eac
was specialist in his business an
able to give valuable information.
SECRETARY J. l.. KNoEPFLER.
Secretary Knoepfer spoke of tn
efforts being made by the Board t.
induce immigration to Louisiana; tn
sending of literature descriptive o
climate, soil health conditions and ad
vantages, translated into various Ian
guages, to different parts of Europe
To aid him, a list of lands, with pric'
and description would be of use t,
him in settling immigrants. That tn
Board represented the entire State
and could not discriminate in favor O.
any particular section, but that h.
would do all could for us. He sail
that the farmers had to make a star
sometime and he hoped they would d.
it now.
Mr.. Knoepfer stated theat if WI
wished to have any cattle inoculatec
that it would be done free of charge
by the Agricultural Department a
Baton Rouge, the three treatment!
requiring about months time; but
owners must feed stock during that
time.
C. A. TTEBoUT.
Mr.. TiebOut, of Roseland. said thai
he was large raiser of beans. THAI
he planted on ridges in drills. That
he plowed his land deep and used sta
BILE manure freely, handling the War.
dell and the Davis wax beans.
For cabbage, besides good dress
ing of stable manure, he used three
thousand pounds of commercial fer.
silizer per acre, kainit and acid phos.
phate, in three applications. Hender.
dson's Early Summer is the variety he
plants. He gets from 225 to $50 crates
per acre. Sows seed in seed-bed in
November, sets out plants in Febru-
airy and gathers crop in March anC
April. Off the same land, without
further fertilizing, he gets fifty bush.
els of corn to the acre and a crop OF
cow peas.
Tomatoes he prunes to two stems
when the blossoms begin to appear.
Never use stable manure nor plants
IN succession on the same ground OF
after crop Of egg plants or potatoes.
Otherwise there is no escape from the
blight. There is no cure for it. Only
preventive measurs are of any effect.
For the corn worm on tomatoes and
the Colorado beetle on potatoes arse
nate of lead is the most effective
remedy and perfectly harmless to
The plant, and has the advantage of
lot washing off with the rain. A fer
,iliZer for tomatoes should contain 2
Der cent of animal nitrogen, per
'ent of acid phosphate and per cent
If potash.
Irish potatoes were a good crop to
'aise on our land, and Strawberries
would do we'll.
Sweet potatoes, he said, were a
paying crop if put into the New Or
cans market at the right time. He
lad never failed to get from So. so to
g. 90 per barrel for them in April and
Nay; the higher price in May. He
aid that if potatoes were packed in
latted bushel crates, put in a house
made for that purpose, thoroughly
Tried by artificial heat and kept at a
temperature of about 70 degrees there
would be little loss.
He said the main thing our people
lad to contend with was lack of rail-
way facilities.
w. S. KEAGHEY.
While Mr.. Keaghey did not seem as
over the business as he
vas when here several years ago, we
believe he has more money in bank.
lie acknowledged that the farmers in
oonchatoula had made money this
rear and that the bank had plenty of
money on deposit. He also admitted,
n response to question, that Poncha-
oula was much more prosperous than
before she engaged in the trucking
business.
Potatoes. he said, were good crop.
Tertilize with one ton of cotton seed
neal to the acre. Put in about two
weeks before planting.
Mr.. KeagheY spoke qnite at length
Upon the difficulties of getting square
leal for shipments. He said that
ruck farming was hard work. A man
must not expect to go into the field
With high-top boots and kid gloves.
hat we must not expect to get rail-
way facilities unless the truck is put
n. But only those who were pre-
jared for failures need to go into the
BUSINESS. That while the Chicago
market used never to be glutted, four
arloads of Strawberries would some
ines ruin it. That in putting up
'ackages avoid putting the best on
op. Assert to uniform sizes.
Creole onions are a COOP crop. Plant
n beds and set out when about the
ize of lead pencil.
M. L. CosTLEY, JR.
Mr.. M. L. Costley, Jr., Travelling
freight Agent of the Illinois Central,
aid that whenever we got ready to
70 into the trucking business the COM
,any would furnish refrigerator cars
ind run special for our accommoda-
ion if we would load at least two
'ars within reasonable time, and that
his would enable US to reach the
market the same time as Hammond
md Ponchatoula with the same rates.
GEO. E. vILLERE.
Mr.. Where, of the Cloverlands dairy
# New orleans, spoke of the necessity
# cattle on the truck farm. That the
larry was the natural adjunct to this
business. What the dairymen needed
vas better stock; more profitable
stock. That one cow worth SIPS was
# more value than five cows worth
'25 dollars each. That they should
Tub together and get some good Hol-
itein cows from the North. That the
irst calf would pay the difference in
lost. Have them inoculated against
he tick fever and there would be no
fear of nonaclimatization. He would
1ot have cow in his herd that would
not yield 700 gallons of milk year.
Mr.. Where stated that our land is
much superior to that around Ham
mond for dairying purposes.
The meeting then adjourned.
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