The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-04-20

and in your barn should not cost you
over $40 per acre, which results in
| giving you a nice profit considering
the time and labor expended.
l am sending you Today a sample OF
green oats, and feel sure that there
is not another crop grown in this por-
ish that represents as much feed value
and consequently money value, at this
season Of the year as does the oat
crop.
A great many planters do not plant
oats owing to the fact that there is
no way at present Of getting the crop
threshed. .
The International Harvesting Co.,
are now selling a complete t%hreshing
outfit with a capacity Of ten acres per
day, for the sum of five hundred and
fifty dollars, delivered at Lafayette,
La. Ten farmers could join together
and buy this outfit at a cost of ffty-hve
dollars each.
There are upwards of $25, 600 90
worth of oats shipped into Lafayette
each year, this local demand ought
certainly to be supplied by the farm
ers of this parish.
Over four hundred tons of hay were
shipped in here during the last year,
also something like $4,000 bushels of
corn.
Let us go to work and reverse the
above conditions.
J. C. MCPHERSON.
A. A. Morrow asked where good
seed oats could be obtained. Mr.. Nick
| erson replied that he got his from Nc
Kinley Bros, Dallas, Tex. Prof. bod
son said that fine strains of oat seeds
had been developed in Louisiana by
the late Rev. Patterson of Baton
Rouge. L. McGhee and Mr.. Stuart Of
Laurel Hill.
H. c. Wallis being absent Nh. Nor
row vas asked to give his experience
as to the possibilities of an acre of
ground, which he did, showing how
three crops could be raised every year.
cabbages. Irish potatoes. melons and
onions, etc, in succession and season.
Pigs grazed on oats produced fine re-
suits. He complimented the farmers
on the organization of the club and
predicted substantial results in pro-
gressive methods of culture and farm
management.
Prof. w. r. Dodson took up the sub
ject of oat culture and declared the
production of forage crops he most
highly remunerative Of all to farm
ers, especially when turned into meat
He thought October the best time to
SOW as stock could be graZed to adj
vantage during the winter, and the
crop would not mature, too early in
the spring. The result obtained at
the Baton Rouge station in grazing
cattle and pigs were given, showing
that pigs had actually gained half a
pound per day for 81 days and sold
for six cents per pound in open mar
ket. Alsike or some medium red clio
yer was also fine and would do well
here, Vetch seed was too high, but ia
pan clover could be sOwn to advan
tage in oats. Bermuda, sorghum, COW
peas and sweet potatoes give excellent
results in %pasturing cattle and pigs
Second crop sorghum will some times
kill cattle, but can be fed after III
ing in the sun without danger. Prof
Dodson proceeded to illustrate on the
blackboard, the methnd of rotation
in crops as follows: Cotton, corr
oats; corn, oats, cotton; oats, cotton
corn. Peas should be sown with corr
and after oats, and in this way il
three years five crops could be produc
ed on the same land and the soil lief
, in much better condition than at thu
beginning. The average yield of cot
ton at Calhoun station by this methot
has been a bale, to the acre. Prof. bod
son argued for greater attention t.
grain and forage crops, %contendinl
that cotton was the negrO's crop, re
curing toe much manual labor, Will