The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-17
NOT GUILTY.

ardson, Director of Agricultural Elk
tension of the Louisiana State Univer-
sity, to the members of the Louisiana
Press Association assembled in con-
vention at Shreveport, La, during the
current week:
/ have talked to great many peo-
pie recently, who contemplate coming
to Louisiana We welcome them most
cordially. Louisiana has made great
strides. The question is, are we devel-
oping Louisiana? Statistics say no!
/ am anxious for our people at least
to have some stock in this splendid
sunny Louisiana. | want them to be-
come progressive, frugal, intelligent
citizens.
In order that our people shall be-
come stockholders in the great awak-
ening, it is absolutely necessary for
them to learn that Louisiana has been
sleeping idly on a field of hidden treas
ures and that by intelligent, honest,
well directed labor our people can re-
gain the millions by right their own,
Gentlemen, you are the men to help
change this attitude of our Louisiana
people. You are the men to prepare
their minds for the agricultural infor-
nation that is being carried daily from
our experiment stations, the Louisiana
State University, Agriculture, aud Me-
chanical College and the Department
of Agriculture at Washington through
the farm demonstration work and 9th
er agencies.
Would it not be wise for the press
of the State to combine their efforts in
exploiting some of Louisiana's great re-
sources, rather than emphasizing her
misfortunes? Or, in other words,
would it not be wise for the press to
educate her people concerning the
great resources of Louisiana? Let
them know that 95 per cent of the cane
sugar produced in the United States
comes from the cane plantations of
Louisiana? That Louisiana produces
more rice than all other States COM
bined; second in the production of
lumber; has the greatest sulphur mine
in the world; most extensive salt de-
post; more navigable waterways than
any other State; and her soil is the
most productive, etc.
Would it not be wise to place in a
conspicuous place some of the activi-
ties in agricultural pursuits which are
happening daily in our State, such as
that in March, 1913, Mr.. Phil Connell
sold steers on the New Orleans market
for $500 per hundred, that he had been
feeding at Baton Rouge for ninety
days, which he paid $375 per hundred
for at the beginning of the period. A
shipment of train load of lespedeza
hay from Baton Rouge at one time.
That Mr. Gibbons on one hundred
acres OF lespedeza sold four thousand
dollars worth of hay and seed That
Mrs. Porter of Cheneyville started with
ten ducks, sold twenty-five dozen eggs
at $500, cleared two hundred dollars.
That investigation of the cattle tick
suggested practically every detail of
experiment that demonstrated that the
mosquito was the carrier of yellow
fever and malaria and that resulted in
the discovery of transmission of bu-
bonic plague, sleeping sickness and
number of other diseases. That the
Experiment Station in our own State
demonstrated the value of blackstrap
molasses as feedstuff that is now
worth three quarters of million dol
lars to the State. That the experiments
have saved the cotton seed of the
State, which is worth about three and
half million dollars. That D-74 sugar
cane has greatly increased the sugar
production. Seventy-six sugar houses
showed that D-74 was making approx
mately barrel of sugar more to the
acre than Louisiana cane, and consid-
erably more than half the crop of the
State is now D-74 That by experiment
tation the rice stations yield in rice
has been increased nine barrels per
acre. That Otis Woods, a boy belong
ing to the hog club, made on one hog
two hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
That 1900 boys belonging to the boys
hog clubs raised pork at two and
half cents pound. That on last
year nine boys averaged more than
one hundred bushels of corn to the
acre and the average yield of the corn
club boys was 55.S2 bushels. That one
girl cleared sixty-seyen dollars on one
tenth of an acre of tomatoes. That fif-
teen acres of land farmed NV e. a