St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-06-01
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Of FARMERS
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and the town of Hammond, unde:
whose auspices the meeting was CAL
ed. Governor Hall sent q letter
promising his cooperation.
The Woodland Plantation Of Hac,.-
mond, La, is sending out ctrcu a
letters to the farmers of this ST: Z
In the interest of this movement.
The Woodland plantation il the prop
erty of w. T. and I. s. West who are
breeders Of high grade stock. They
are urging legislation and appropria-
lions by the General Assembly that
will benefit the stock raising indus
try in the State. The need for prop
er appropriations is referred to as
follows: What seems to be most the
need now, is few of the dollars we
! pay in every year as taxes to help
extend and broaden the scope Of the
wonk in the interest of Louisiana ag-
|rjEu1ture, so ably started and carried
t6n by DR.. w. R. Dodson, the dean
and director of the Louisiana Agri-
cultural. College, and his efficient CO.
workers, though, as we we'll know,
greatly handicapped by the lack Of
sufficient funds and financial assist
ance, to do the most good to the
gre munger Of our fellow farm
Many answers to the letters sent
out have been received and the SEN
timent among those people writing in
this connection seems strongly in
favor Of better facilities for the i'm
lprovement of the farming interests in
the State.
Mr.. Moss, who has been with the
versity, has gone to Washington, D..
C., to remain until the next season
for the testing Of the seed taken
from the open market. Two hum
dred tests were made by the seed
testing laboratory during the session
just closed and in some of these the
seed tested showed as low germina-
ing qualities as 3H per cent. Mr..
Moreland will act in the absence Of
Mr.. Moss in cases of emergency.
The protection of farmers of the State
against adulterated seed will be con-
/ sid red at the session of the General
Assembly now in session. DR.. w.
H. Beale of the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture has made his
annual inspection of the State Ex-
pertinent Stations at Baton Rouge
and other sections of the State.
The inspection was delayed this
year due to the trouble entailed in
travelling over the State with the dis
organized railroad schedules result
Ing from the food conditions. The
stations were uniformly found in
ed by the representative of the Ma
tional Bureau. !! a
Mr.. Balls OF the department of ag-
ricultural extension at the State Uni
versity is making an inspection of
the extension work in schools of the
State. He has returned from a trip
to q number of the schools employed
in the work and reports finding these
institutions doing the various lines
of endeavor promoted to be distinct
ly on the increase as the results are
obtained and noted. Mr.. Richardson
of this department is paying particu-
lar attention at this time to- the
promotion of the canning industry
and the workers in this line of in
|struction have been sent throughout
the State to push the work in all
sections where canning clubs have
been organized.~-The cooperation of
the manufacturers of canning outfit
has contributed greatly to the inter-
|ests in this line of work and is prov
ing q great aid to the promoters of
the work sent out by this depart
|ment.