St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
THE AGRICULTURAL AWAKEN.
ING IN LOUISIANA.

On every hand we find today evil
dences of an agricultural awakening
IN Louisiana such as we have never
known before. Years ago, when
consecrated men labored hard to
make the farmers Institutes produce
tive Of good, the response met at the
hands of the farmers in many COM
munities was halfhearted. On one
crop systems, cotton in north Lou
lsiana and sugar cane in the south
er part, yielded fair returns, and
the need of improvement, particular
~ among the cotton growers, was
felt to be slight. More progress was
made in cane culture; and the great
work done by DR.. w. c.. Stubbs, as
director of the Experiment Station,
largely, accounts for the fact that
today the cane planters, as a whole
are justly recognized as the best
farmers of the State.
Better than ever before, we see
today the good results of the pineer
endeavors of DR.. Stubbs and such
co-laborers as Col. Chas. Schuler,
Prof. w. R. Dodson, DR.. w. H.
Dalryple, Prof. H. A. Morgan and
others. That work, supported and
emphasized by the advent of the boil
Weevil, has opened the way for the
awakening now SO rapidly appear
ing all over Louisiana. But what.
we may ask, are the evidences of
this awakening?
briefly. they are as follows: The
attendance of 1876 Louisiana farmers
at the Short Course held at the Col
iege or Agriculture of the State Uni
versity last January; the organza.
tlon OF the Louisiana Corn Growers
association and of the Lespedeza AS
soclat1on; such evidences OF diversi-
ncat1on as the shipment of 100000
| or peanuts out of one station-Rusx
ton-and more than $1,OOO,OOO at
Strawberries from Independence in
1910; the attendance of So, 900 farm
ers' women, merchants, professional
men and school children at the meet
| ings held on the Southern Pacific
| demonstration Train last October;
the operation of farmers institute
| course by the Missouri Pacific and
IRON Mountain Railway; lectures to
more than $4,000 people in four days
| Dy twelve agriculturists and home
economists on the Rock Island Hog
and Corn Special" February Is to
| ~; the attendance of more than
| 1o,OoO farmers and farmers boys
at the boys institutes held In 1910
TO organize the boys corn clubs: A
membership of more than 5000 bows
In the 1910 corn clubs of the State.
the organization of several boys mig
clubs during January and February:
the organization of seventeen apr,.
cultural high schools; the sentiment
which has led to the establishment
OF the State Live Stock Sanitary
Board and Of the hog cholera serum
piant at the Louisiana State Uni
| verslty; the growing sentiment for
tue eradication of cattle ticks; the
rapid development of hog raising:
the use OF better methods and better
SEED In corn growing, whereby tho
production of corn has been increas.
ed by 25,000,000 bushels in two
years; the rapid increase of immiera.
tlon into the State of desirable west
ern farmers; the reclamation of wat
prairies, and the invasion of our cnt.
osef pine lands by energetic farmers;
anu the establishment of three agri-
euiturai papers in the State during
the last two years.
more than ever, the farmer now
appears desirous Of profting by the
4 work OF the agricultural experime emf
4 stations; he is open to conviction:
s.s.-.-- CT lis. cwn expert
encs and observation, she now Be.
Neves, ls not contained all the
Worias knowledge Of agriculture:
/ ana ne Is, not always. but generally,
! reauy 20 meet the scisntists or the
college professor half-Way.