New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1910-07-23
SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL
HELP EDUCATE THE LOU
ISIANA FARMER.

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| Baton Rouge, ( La. July IT.
Manned by lectures from the Lon
isiana State Experimental Farms
and by live stock and poultry
from the farms and agrirUltur,
implements submitted for eXh.b
tion purposes the Southern Pa
cific will. on October 81, send on
from New Orleans Il fully
equipped demonstration train fen
the education of farmers through
out the agriculture and stock raIS
In% belt of southwest Louisiana
! Mr., Joseph Lallande, assistant
general freight agent of th,
Southern Pacific and of the Lou
Isiana Western. has been in Ba
ton Rouge during the past week IN
conference with Prof. W. Il. bod
son. director of the Louisiana eN-
perimental farms, and with Pro
fesSor Boyd, and other officials OF
the State educational and agricul-
tural bureaus. lie left the other
day with sufficient assurance of
active support to make the prop
OSltlon positive certainty
Corn, cane, rice. hay farm and
poultry products, hog raising and
n at ln fn hn Ia. !, n :
the demonstration train lecturers
will dwell on during their piIgri-
mage through the southwest sec
ton Of the State. 1t is intended
that the train shall carry the Pull
man ears for the corps Of lcctur-
ers and employees, and additional
equipment for the transportation
and other live stock, farm nipple
mentS and other paraphcrnaIia
that is to be part Of the exhibit
and school system that is pro
posed.
Immense Packery Coming
Louisiana will this year forge
to the front as the foremost pro
ducer Of corn. This indicates, ac-
cording to the uptodate observers
of agricultural development what
the possibilities Of the State are
with respect to diversity Of farm
ing. Hog raising too, according
to the men learned in the sub
.iect, can be made to forge to the
front, and even at this time. it is
declared, arrangements are under
way for an immense packery IN
Jefferson parish, Just across the
river from New Orleans.
Hay and cattle, both of which
can be grown in more than a suf-
ficient quantity to make the in
vestment profitable, are likewise
said to be possibilities which lou
lsiana's soil can be produce in
such effulgent proportions as to
compel recognition as the fore
most live stock and food stuffs
producing section of the country.
Only few weeks ago the VIII
son bill before the Legislature
drew from its proponents the pos
tive statement that instead of one
of the first consuming States Lou
isiana should become the foremost
producing State in the matter of
dairy products.
1t is said to be the object of the
Southern Pacific demonstration
campaign to awaken an active
live interest among the Louisiana
farmers in the possibilities of their
soil. The problem has worked out
most satisfactorily in the Far
West, where the same line is said
to have spent thousands of dol
lars in educational pilgrimages Of
this sort.
The company furnishes the en-
tire equipment and operating ex-
penses, while the State education
al and agricultural departments
supply the lectures. the imple-
ments and the live stock and 9TH
err accessories.
Will Visit Forty-two Towns.
The trip which Mr.. Lallande
has been promoting will cover a
space of some four or five weeks,
and will include something like
forty-twO stops at stations on the
line of the company throughout
Southwest Louisiana. At each
station the train will be antici-
pated by literature and advertis-
ing bills announcing the date and
the hour on which the lectures
will take place. The experience
Of the company in the Far West
has been to show that the farmers
look upon the project with much
favor.
ct is not business PROPOSE
tion, and again it is business
proposition with the railroad, F"
said a leading exponent of agri-
culture yesterday evening"
The Southern Pacific, Of course,
hopes that this educational cam
paign will bring it increased ton
mage from the districts visited,
hut there is no gainsaying the
fact that every new acre of pro-
duet, or Of live stock raised. will
bring its return in taxation and
in all other respects to Louisiana.
1t has been the means Of de
veloping great sections Of the
West. and believe that this sys-
tenn" will build up Louisiana
quicker aid beyond the belief of
it's most optimistic exponents.-
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