The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-10-28
ADVERTISING LOUISIANA.

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Illinois Central Railway Sending
Demonstration Train Over North
and Northwest
! Through the cooperation Of the ag-
rlcultural experiment stations Of this
state and Mississippi the Illinois Gem
trail lines are operating a special
agricultural demonstration train
through the states of Illinois, Indi-
| ana, Iowa, Wisconsin and South Da-
kota, stopping at 164 towns. The
train started on it's itinerary Oct. 4
from Peotene, ILL.,, and will consume
thirty days in completing the round
| of the states mentioned
AT each town there are lectures
given from the platforms of the va
rlous cars by professors of the Lou
isiana State University Agricultural
College, under the direction of Dir.
w. r. Dodson, dean of the college,
and by Prof. J. w. Fox, director of
the A. and NJ College at Starkyille,
Miss. In the cars of the train are
farm products from this state and
Mississippi, similar to those exhibited
by the Southern Pacific demonstra-
ton trains last year. including live
stock and poultry raised in Louisiana,
as we'll as samples of soils, etc
The train was arranged by j. G..
Clair, industrial and immigration
commissioner of the Illinois Central
lines at Chicago, who has been doing
| some extensive publicity work for
Louisiana lands In this way, and at
state fairs in Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Illinois during the months of
! September and October Thousands
OF pamphlets were distributed and
fully 5000 persons have inspected
the exhibits
I M Hair llssaH the f.a
/ products shown opened the eyes of
the farmers to the great possibilities
of Louisiana and Mississippi lands.
An Appointment That Was Wise.
/ In the Saturday Evening Post this
week, in Samuel Blythes tssHho's
| Who--and Why!" was Il story asot8t
Or. Downing, president of the Loilisf-
ana state beard Of health
I Last spring the Worlds Work had
q lengthy article on the work Ilr.
Bowling was doing in ana for LGuisi-
ana.
The Literary Digest has comment
| cd upon his health propaganda at
length.
Countless newspapers have men
toned his sanitary campaigns with
enthusiastic approval.
Measured in dollars and cents Ut
I the commercial space rates in these
| magazines and newspapers, Di..
bowling has obtained for Lc;siaiana
at least $4,000 worth of splendid 90
Yertlsin has obtained it without
dollars cost to the commonwealth
and in a way which is necessarily
more effective than simple adYertis-
Ing. because it has been the express
sion of the impartial approval ct dis
interested critics.
The one page in Saturday Evening
Post, as an advertisement, would
have cost s3600-While as an editorial
a million dollars would not haze p{iE
chased it. And no more effectiNe page
is published In these United States
The Saturday Evening Post goes
TO one and q half million reader,
goes into more homes than does any
other publication in this county, al!
is read by the thinking, informed pac4.
pie Of the land. ~
1t would have cost the state s15,dQ5
to have mailed one-cent circular
these homes, telling of the sanitary
progress in Louisiana.
This is just a sample Of what
efficiency and initiative in public
office can accomplish
Governor Sanders made no better
investment for Louisiana i ail mis-
| administration than appoiutin. ar.
Bowling. The publicity his work has
gained cannot fail to bring iianisra-
ton into, and good viii toward, this
state.-Baton Rouge NeH Ad.oeate.