The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-02-06
Farmers Union
Endorses Warehouse Project, Con.
demnS Crop Reporting Sus-
tens and Urges Dlver-
sifC1tiOn.
6onvsntlOn to Meet in JUL


a good portion of their acts for pub
lic.ition, AS follows:
The following committees were ap
pointed:
On resolutions and good nf the or
DER. n. HOLMES. T.. A. Brinkly }
". Boyett, Jr., 1. n. Ms-Collister, }
o. Strother, H. Lee Mills and }. b
klrinpeter.
Co-operation and Warehouses;.
n. McCollistrr, L. A. Rains, dr., NJ.
Davis, DR.. L. Foster, X. A. n. VIM,
j. VI. Goff.
Liternture-L. NJ. Holmes. j. NJ.
Davis, s. b. David. DR.. Z. Foster.
AgricnIture-tIardy l.. Brian, r.
Lee Mills, l.. N. Holmes, NJ. A. Dixon.
A resolution was adopted express
ing the apprecia ton OF the members
oi the Union of the action OF thesugar
planters recommending the use o..
cotton for bagging, bags for grain,
etc.
A resolution was passed endorsing
the Thompson warehouse PROPOSE
ton and authorizing the president
to appoint committee to report
more fully On the warehouse question
at the next meeting.
Also that tile federation OF ware
houses shall be under a single board
of control.
The resolution relative To crop re-
ports is as follows:
Whereas, in our opinion, the dlner-
ent systems of reporting the progress
of crops frolh the planting time until
the marketing the same, Is not, AND
was never in the interest of The farm
CIR. that man most vitality interested,
hut makes rather to the interest ol
the SPECTATOR aud the class of per.
SOUS who toll not, neither do the,
spin.
Therefore, be it resolved, at thin
meeting, That committee he ap
poiuted to make recommendation
to the next regular State meeting,
plan which will lead to the abolitlo'
oi these practices.
The committee on agriculture mad
n ringing report. 1t imbodied idea
against the single money crop wli'c
WAS a drain ON revenues foI the u.
crssities OF life, blaming the farmer
for taking up side lines instead "t IN
proving their farms, intelsliyin
methods and bpuutifying their home'
in rejecting the suggestions OF the q.
ricultural departments of the Stat
and national governments. lturSe
improvements of the soil by improve
methods OF cultivation, planting, ie
tilizing products, divtrNilcatio'
raising fruit. stock aud Heed cro.}
and along lines of similar tendency
make farming IA noble and seii-su
thinning profession.
The executive committee WAS
session Friday morning outlinir
The routine work of the union al
copclmied their work ut II O'Clock
The convention adiourned.to me
at opelousas the last Tuesday
next July, 1909.
REPORT on AGRICULTURE.
We, yourcommittee on agricuitu
beg leave tn submit the following:
Farming is both science and
art. distinctive and unique in It's
nud the oldest occupation follow
Inv man for a livelihood. 1t has l
proved and de2enerated with t
rise and fall of civilization and III
the ages past. Ii has advanced ire
the crooked stick MS "A pillow and
reap hook of ancient Egypt and
syria, to the riding cuitivator n
tine Mccormick reaper aud builder
to-day. Aud yet We stand, as
werr, upon the Threshold OF the Va
possibilities uf intensive farming a
scientific agriculture.
As We look back over the rugH
way We have cone. We see the p;
strewn with mistakes and fullu
mud bv these weshould learn wisdo
First-We have sought the mot
crops. Everything we could sell
u dollar we would try to grow,