St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-02-24

university and lend any assistance
that will tend to the aid of the
thorough demonstration of the can.
ming outfits which are believed to be
OF more than ordinary interest to
the people of the State. as they mean
the end of waste in the domestic
} fabric in the home and on the farm.
DR.. Clarence Pierson Of the State
Asylum for the Insane at Jackson
which place operates perhaps the
most up-tO-date dairy used in such
a State institution, with the single
exception of the dairy At the State
University, has promised to permit
the management of the demonstra-
ton train to exhibit some of the high
class animals which have been bred
and are used on the asylum's model
farm. DR.. Pierson will send a reg
lstered Holstein cow, pair of York
shire hogs, and pair of Hampshire
hogs; the Yorkshires being consider
ed to have no equals in this country
Truly there is instruction and COM
mon sense to be cleaned even from
we'll managed lunatic asylum, such
as the Jackson institution.
The forthcoming Demonstration
Train will be the best ever sent over
the State. The train will be fur
nished with motive power for the OPP
GRAFTON of all kinds of farm machin-
cry carried on the train, and for the
generation of electricity in the pre-
sentation of series Of animated pic
ture productions, which will furnish
vast amount of instruction and at
the same time some entertainment
to those witnessing the show The
canvass will be stretched near the
of the section will be treated to a
program of moving picture presen-
tations that will illustrate all the
forms of promotion advocated by the
Experiment Stations and the State
Board of Health for the benefit of
the people of the State. This in
vasion of the entire State by the
demonstration train will cause some
of the people in the interior and re- |
mote sections of tn State to see for |
the first time the wonderful Animal !
ed pictures that are shown in the |
populated centers as q form Of whole |
some instruction. This form of en-
will no doubt prove a
drawing card at the train, especially
in those sections where the animal
edpicture is novelty, and none of
the people in the sections to be Wis
tied can afford to miss the show that
will be both entertaining and in
structive.
The experiment stations have pre-
pared a comparative statement as to
the value of seed for planting as es-
Ia blished by the seed testing labora-
tory at the State University. It is
a well known fact that the Legisla-
ture established q system of inspec-
ton of the fertilizers and feedstuffs
sold in the State to prevent the prey
Of INSCRIPTIONS concerns foisting
stuff on the unsuspecting
The Legislature has,
however, up to this time, placed no
to the planters in this State, and the
result is that when the planter buys
seed he scarcely knows what he is
getting for his money. Experiments
show that the average pound Of seed,
purchased from the most reliable
seed dealers, contain q large percent
age of weed seed and other forms Of
trash, and that the terminating
qualities of the seed are compare
lively poor, so that in the long run
the planter gets about half of what
he pays for in the shape of fertile
seed for planting. A comparative
statement Of tthe results obtained Z
from the examination of samples
submitted will be published shortly
and the planters of the State who
yited to send samples to the seed {
.esting laboratory at the University \
and receive free of any charge ex- {
pert testimony as to the value of the Is
seed submitted. When it is consid-
cred that the planter plants but one Ii
half of his acreage with productive Il
seeds on account of adutleration, it ,
is not to be wondered at that the
crop is so per cent short in yield and {
Decuniary remuneration. Good seed
efficient cultivation. and scientific at
.entiOn to the crop throughout its =.
various phases must under normal
conditions insure remunerative and (
paying harvest to the planter, but
the process must be perfect from the
time the seed is placed in the ground
to the time when the crop is harvest
ed and this is the object of the seed
testing department of the UNIVERSE
ty now so much in demand in all
of the State.
WORST STORM OF WINTER.