St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-02-06
IMPROVEMENT IN STOCK.

The achievements that follow the efforts
of those who take up avocatlons from natural
choice or instructive liking frequently illus
trate the cause of failure in others conduct
ing the same business for profit; and when
we examine into the cause the disclosures
make it apparent that failure is more often
due to nonobservance of primary principles
than to lack of opportunity or field for de-
velopment. This can be exemplified by
numerous examples of success and failure in
our own parish, and it is due to the sue
cesses that to-day we are rapidly advancing
in the breeding of good stock and the rails
ing of fine chickens. The initiative was
taken mostly by those who entered into the
business purely from love of finely bred
stock and who incidentally made it profta-
ble creating hunger for the profits in 9TH
ers, rather than the pride of the breeder in
perfect animals. In other words, it was
shown that the money was in the breed and
not in the feed, as some claimed. In conse-
quence, in the woods to-day are many good
cows that will give from two to three gal
Ions of milk day in place Of the old piney
woods cow that gave one, and on Columbia
street, in Covington, there were for sale
this week Plymouth Rocks for table use, at
one dollar each, that weighed seven pounds
piece.
IL uldy llOG NC SG4lG1dI1y h1lOW1I, DuG tAISEG
| is in St. Tammany parish some very fine
stock some registered and some eligible fol
Registration and lot that would be classed
as high grade if any record Of them had
been kept. /. u
Mr.. Joseph Snyder has among his herd
the following registered Jersey bulls: Parolis
(Anna Brendalt No.5177, TIC, A. ]. C. c.;
bred by ]. T. Montgomery, Yazoo City,
Miss. lockwood, son of Anna Brenda, bred
| by H. Loubat Abita Springs; St. Tammany,
son of Anna Brenda, bred by H. Loubat,
Abita Springs Mr.. Schuyler has other fine
Jerseys that are not registered
Hon. Thos. C. Glynn has fine herd Of
Jerseys.
Mr. A. C. Falor has pen of fine Plym.
outh Rocks thirty hens. One cock he paid
$25 for and one of four he bought for sos,
the other three going to J. B. Fain. He is 9
great admirer Of the Plymouth Rock and
considers them the best layers and all-arounc
| fowl and adapted to this climate.
| Mr.. Geo. E. Sears is also staunch advo
cate of the Plymouth Rock, and has bred
some very fine birds. He also has some
registered Scotch Collies Glenoak Lady, No
A. K. S. B., 1924, 764, and Qlenoak Boy, sire
T. E. c., No. A. K. c., q 1897, dam Lady
Gray, No. 124, $685.. A. K. &C., registration
applied for. Mr.. Sears is an enthusiast who
finds much pleasure among his birds and be-
lieves there is profit in the business if prop.
erly conducted
Mr.. M. C. Smith has the Scotch Colliei Pc.
peep, Register No. 49, and recently
sold seven of her pups for $685.
The St. Tammany Poultry Farm, owned
by J. B. Fain and under the management OF
Chas Ongeron, besides having lot of fancy
fowls, has some registered Berkshire, Ches-
ter White and Poland China hogs that are
beauties, as well as some fine Jersey cows
No doubt there is in the parish to-day a
considerable amount of stock registered and
entitled to registration that has not been
made known We have made request that
parties owning such stock send a list OF
same to this paper. The list is required by
DR.. w. R. Dodson, Director of the Expert.
ment Station, Baton Rouge, La