St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-24
4 LETTER TO
TRUCK FARM[RS
To the St. Tammany Farmer:

TO the st. Tammany Farmer:
Folsom. La, Dec 20.While We
ventured and put our money and
abor in fall crop OF beans and the
returns did not even pay for the
crates and no doubt feel discouraged.
we should not loose sight of the fact
that the greatest success In life 10
always attained after many failures
have been met and overcome
This low price for our fell crop
was caused by the early frost h re
and the late frost in Indiana and
Illinois, as there was only twenty.
four hours difference in the time, an
incident that had not occurred before
in thirty-seven years. according to
government reports.
Therefore, we should not after all
feel so gloomy, but try and gather
rom this failure sufficient material
20 build our Ark, to land In the port
Of success next time.
And again, we that are young in
|truck-growing need to take some
lessons from those who have had
years of experience. We should,
after our first frost, have prepared
our land at once and put it down in
paying crops that the cold does not
affect materially. Radishes on the
Chicago market today are worth SIS
ents per dozen punches; lettuce
rom IS to $12 per barrel, etc.
Another winter crop we can raise
successfully is garlic, which is worth
now IS cents per string, while there
8 100 per cent profit In garlic at
25 cents per string, and the garlic
comes of in time for any other spring
crop.
And again, we should not pin our
faith to any one or two crops, but
diversity; plant early potatoes (Ten-
nessee Triumph, 25th Of January to
February 9Th is good planting, early
cucumbers, beets, sugar corn, bell
pepper, beans, etc. Any Of the above
+ crops, If put in early will bring fancy
prices.
First and foremost is to raise the
crops, then adopt the best.an cheap
est methods OF marketing. What we
need to do is for the different asso-
l Citations to cooperate In securing
platform selling-that is, selling our
products right at the depot. The
writer having visited the leading
I truck markets of the north knows a
few things Of how the commission
men at the other end of the line
handle, class, sell ETC., our goods,
and warn you while such conditions
exist it will be anything but profit
able for the producer; while IL we
can sell right at loading station we
can better figure what we are doing.
This can be obtained only by the diff
ferent associations cooperating and
asking for buyers to visit our point
during shipping season.
At independence there was little
over $500. 900 deposited in one bank
during April, May and June of last
year by reason OF returns for truck
sold at that point alone, not count
ing Hammond, Ponchatoula and
other points that came near reach
Ing the above figures, and tell you,
| brother, wake up and get busy.
While 1T may take some few years
for US to swell our bank deposits to
the above figures, yet we are bound
to succeed il we only persevere along
these lines.
Respectfully.
| GEORGE M. FENDLASON,
l President, Folsom Truck
Growers Association.
Widow JOS. P. Florio vs.. Alex
ander Multi. No. 1927.
ITwenty-Sixth Judicial District Court,
Parish of st. Tammany, La.
BY virtue Of a writ of seizure and
II 10 h4 n Ia OF
said court, and to me directed, bear
in conformity with an order of the
above named court, rendered In the
above entitled and numbered cause,
and bearing date November 3. 1910,
will proceed to sell at public auc-
ton at the pricipal front door Of the
courthouse. In the town Of Coying-
ton, La, between legal sale hours,
| on Saturday, January %, 1911. to
: the last and highest bidder, the fol
: lowing described property, to-wit:
1st. A certain piece or parcel Of
7 land, situated IN the parish Of st
j Tammany, State OF Louisiana, on the
east bank of Bayou Lacombe, about
: two miles above the mouth of thu
!, bayou. beginning at the shell banl
lat the edge OF the water of thu
q above named bayou, running
: through the marsh, south seventy
one degrees fifteen minutes, cas-
|, one. hundred and twenty-seven ant
r twelve one-hundredths chains to
corner, thence north forty-two de
y grees east one hundred and fourteen
and thirty-one one-hundreths chain
8, to a corner, thence north seventy
!; one degrees, fifteen mfnues west NIT
four chains to the east bank Q
J; Bayou Cyprian or De Cypress, theme
along the bank of said bayou to it
rs junction with Bayou Lacomb, theme
along the east bank of last name
bayou, down to the front to point c
or departure, the whole forming an
I'd being the James Million SPANS
0. Grant, and containing one thousan
3, two hundred and forty three an
sixty-one one-hundreths acres.
ne Cd. Another tract Of land al
xt Joining the above described gran
being part of section 5, in tow
1t. ship 8, south of range 13 cas-
Greensburg District Of Louisian
containing more or less eighty-eigl
and twenty-three one-hundretl
acres, together with any and all II
On provements thereon situated, or
sn any wise thereto appertaining.
ay Terms of sale Cash. without a
lio praisement; purchaser TO assun
!n, over and above his bid, the payne
ite of the two noles for the sum Of t.
les thousand dollars, New Orleans Il
Ia October Is, 1909, drawn by Ale
ander Multi to his own order al