The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-20
Louisiana an Ideal
State for Dairyiing
Our Wet Climate Considered as Detrimental
to Successful Farming, is a Valuable
Asset in Dairy Farming.
N. o. Picayune:

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Capitalize the disadvantages of ex-
cessive moisture in Louisiana and turn
them into advantages. Engage in dairy
farming and have a medium of con-
Stunning at a profit to the state and
farming community the surplus vege-
tation which has hitherto been a draw.
back to the planter in cattle which
will feed on it and convert the pastu-
rage into rich milk Populate south
ern Louisiana with the conservative
stock raiser, dairy farmer and cattle
feeder and make New Orleans great
by the development of its exterior re-
sources.
This is the advice of James B. Fos-
ter, of Kansas City, a land man of
years of experience, who is at the
Monteleone Hotel. 1t is given after a
study of the dairy farming possibilities
in the light of the accomplishments of
other and less favored countries, and
personal investigation of conditions
| in the most noted dairy products of
| the states of the Union. Mr.. Foster
says he is SO impressed with the flu.
ture of dairy farming and the cream
cry business in Louisiana that he is
determined to concentrate all of his
efforts into bringing dairy farmers
| from other states into the Pelican
State. He believes that it will be a
slower process than that of bringing
general colonist farmers here, but he
| is assured that every farmer who does
come will find Louisiana so profitable
in his speciality that he will remain to
be valuable asset and a disciple of
the states prosperity.
Speaking of the stock raising and
dairying prospects of this section at
the Monteleone Hotel last week he
said: There is no type of farming
which appeals more strongly to the
conservative rural resident of the
Northern States than dairy farming.
Not only that, it appeals to the pros
porous farmer the world over. The
man who engages in dairy farming is
not speculator. He is not the man
who is looking for quick and heavy
profits. He is not the man who Is
easily discouraged or afraid to face
minor drawbacks. He is the man who
will weigh carefully every phase of the
situation before investing in dairy
farm down here, and when he comes
he comes as D. rmanent resident. He
knows how to work; he knows when
to work and what sort of an outlay
will be necessary. He knows that he
must provide himself with feed; he
knows that he must protect his ami
mails and treat them well, and he is
ready to do all that is necessary.
Nov the very things which have
been considered AS drawbacks To the
cattle and dairying industry by the
people of the South, he will find as his
greatest assets and he will treat them
as such. The fact that there is a heavy
rainfall and that grasses will grow
rankly here will be source of 1eve-
nue. to him, because he will know how
to address himself to those conditions.
He will know that no matter how
much rainfall there may be in sea-
son it will not interfere with his sue
cess in preserving his corn and forage
crops if he has a silo of adequate ca
pacity.
What does the modern stock farmer
care for the raini if he has an artificial
drying machine to cure his hay and
store it in the barns? The farmer who
will investigate can readily ascertain
that enough grass will grow in his
fields down in Louisiana in a month as
will grow in season in the great
stocksaising and dairying districts of
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York,
Indiana or Ohio. He will be told, how
ever, that there is no means of pre-
serving this feed or marketing his i'm
mense hay crops. He knows better
than that, and it just takes such in
vestigation as prospective dairy
farmer will give to satisfy himself of
the true conditions.
Conditions in Louisiana will bear
investigation, and after it has been
made the dairy farmer will find things
better than they were told to him. The