The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-05-31
DoNALDsoNy1LLE, LA. SATURDAY, MAY 81 1913
WONDERS Of LOUISIANA,

VI stlC FAC
complished in the upbuiIdinq o
the States Great Agricultural In
dustry.
| Among the many nDtable addresses
delivered during the recent meeting
| OF the Louisiana State Press Associa
ton in Shreveport was one on sThe
Press and the Extension Of Agr:cul
tural Information, by Prof. e. S
Richardson of the Louisiana State
University.
Prof. Richardson is a happy speak.
er, a man who compels interest be-
cause of his very pleasing person.
allty and his unbounded enthusiasm
in the work ne is doing He. makes
ms auditors feel as well as hear. But
thls does not explain the unusual
interest created by his address to
the press people-he gave them some
solid facts about which they will
think after they have returned to
sthelr homes, and, remembering. will
write about. Which means that his
splendid suggestions are going to
bear fruit. Prof. Richardson was
discussing the inside of the ssbaek-to-
fhe-farm' movement, laying bare. the
actual reasons for the exodus of bows
to the cities and towns, and in this
connection showed that farm life is
not made attractive. He pleaded
with the press of the state to help
aaong this line by printing some Of
the good things that happen on the
farm-such items, for Instance, as
these:
That in March, 1913, Phil Connea
sold on the New Orleans market for
80 steers that he bought for s3.75
and fed for ninety days.
That a whole train load of lespe-
deza hay was shipped out of Baton
rouge on single order.
That a man named Gibbons sold
from one hundred acres, $4,000 worth
Of hay and seed.
That Mrs Porter of y Chenayyi11e
started with SO and sold twenty-five
$500. ga - -
That the invest the cattle
lleaSs sl1ggestesI pEaeE
ssslfase tTfB " 1t that deniosi-
strated the mosquito Ii the carrier
Of yellow fever and malaria and re-
suited in the discovery of the trans
mission of 5ubonic plague, sleeping
sickness and a number OF other dis
eases.
That the Louisiana experiment sta
ton demonstrated the value of black
strap molasses as a feedstuff worth
now to the state three quarters of
a million dollars annually.s
That the experiments made at this
station have saved the cotton seed
crop Of the state, worth three and a
half million dollars a year.
That D.74 sugar cane makes a bar
rel more sugar to the acre than the
ordinary cane. and half the crop of
the state is NOW Of this variety.
That the yield of rice at the states
experiment station has been in
creased nine barrels per acre.
That Otis Woods, a boy belonging
to the hog club, made, on one hog,
s257.
That fifteen hundred boys be-
longing to this same club are rails
ing pork at two and a half cents
pound.
That nine boys in the corn club
last year averaged over hundred
bushels of corn TO the acre and that
the average yield of the crops of
shese boys was 55.332 bushels to the
acre, as against about 18 bushels
raised by the older farmers.
That one Louisiana girl planted
one-tenth of an acre to fbmatoes and
cleared SGT on the crop raised.
That G. A. Tiebout of Roseland,
La, has sold 100000 worth of vege-
sables from fifteen acres of land in
fifteen years. On the same farm one
md six-tentfs of an acre was planted
% eaulifloWer, bringing in a revenue
of over s1100.
That the state experiment station
n the latter part Of December and
January sold from SIS acres s2I0o
worth of caulifloWer, which was de-
;lared by New York experts to be
he best ever had in that market.
s. h7uSI 1dI tS DIS sGuU5S. enumerated
above are surely worth heralding
abroad to the world. These are sim
ply q few bf the wonders of Louisi-
ana about which our own people, as
well as those Of the outside world,
ought to be thoroughly informed,
and the press of Louisiana is play
ng, and will continue to play, an i'm
oortant part III this work.
AS far as the farmers, and especial
y the boys and girls on the farms
If Louisiana, are concerned, such
news should be given the greatest
because it will stimulate
hem to greater endeaVor. On the
ether hand, it will attract the favor
able attention OF outsiders who are
ooking for homes in a state where
lust such wonderful accomplishment
ire possible. We thoroughly approve
If Prof. Richardson's plea for more
news and better news about the
farmer and his Workshreyeport
Journal.