St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-03-04
LOUISIANA'S INTEREST IN MEET
ING OF SOUTHERN CONNER
CIAL CONGRESS AT
ATLANTA.

Washington, D. c., March, 2, 1911.
Intense interest is being manifest
ed throughout the State of Louisiana
in the coming meeting of the South
ern Commercial Congress to be held
at Atlanta, March 8, 9 and 10, and
men from all walks Of life in the
State are preparing to attend. Aside
from the fact that the president Of
the Southern Commercial Congress,
Mr.. John M. Parker, of New Orleans,
is a Louisiana man, and opens the
Congress, Louisiana had additional
interest in the program as seven OF
the principal addresses will be made
by citizens of that State. The adj
dress which will be of most interest
to the agricultural interests of the
South, that on Demonstration Farm
Work, will be given by Mr.. j. A.
Evans, of Shreveport. This CO.
operative demonstration work is one
of the best known and successful
experiments made by the Department
of Agriculture, and Mr.. Knapp. who
is directly in charge of the investi-
cations, says that it will completely
revolutionize Southern agricultural
methods. Mr.. w. Parch, of New
Orleans, the president of the Pro-
gressive Union, will speak on the
evening of the 8th of March with
reference to the Solid South Bust
ness. Mr.. Porch has become famous
throughout the South by reason of
the State legislation secured by him
relative to the construction and
maintenance of steamship lines
from ports in Louisiana. The Hon.
Joseph E. Ransdell, of Lake Provi-
dence, who is known throughout the
United States and is authority on
Rivers and Harbors matters, will adj
dress the section of Land Reclama
ton choosing for his subject ''The
UNFRAMED Empire of the South"
The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Baton Rouge, the Hon.
T. H. Harris, will point out the direct
beraing of taxes as related to educa-
ton. A Louisiana man, Hon. Henry
E. Hardtner, president of the Lou
isiana Conversation Commission, has
been chosen as chairman of the Sec
ton of Forests; the president of the
State Board of Health of Louisiana,
D. Oscar F. Bowling, has been chosen
by Surgeon General Walter Wyman.
of the Bureau of Health and Marine
Hospital Service, to represent his
State in the section meeting devoted
to the subject of health. DR.. Dowl
ing will explain the value of medical
inspection of schools and school chill
dren, and Mr.. E. L. Chappuis, of
New Orleans, will address the Sec
tion meeting of advertising on "Busi-
ness Development.
Governor Sanders with a commit
tee of prominent Louisianaians
whom he appointed to assist him,
has been most anxious that his State
may be well represented. A State
flag will be carried to Atlanta by
the committee from the allying point
for all Louisianaians, and for use
on the morning of March 10, at the
time of the ovations by Ex-senator
James Gordon, Mississippi, and Dr.
Clarence J. Owens, Commander-in-
Chief of the United Sons of Confed-
crate Veterans.
John Hays Hammond, world fam
ed as the leading mining engineer
in the United States, will address
the third annual convention of
Southern Congress in Atlanta, March
$40. His subject will be Efficiency
and Conservation in Handling South
ern Resources.
Mr.. Hammond will speak in the
section of mines and mining, pre-
sided over by j. A. Holmes, of South
Carolina, Director of the Bureau of
Mines in Washington. For this same
section each State geologist of the
South has been asked by Director
Holmes to prepare a paper, for later
use, fully describing the mineral re-