The Madison journal., 1913-06-21
70 TOUR TIE STATE
LouIslaNA RURAL COOPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION PUBLICITY
CAMPAIGN.
ASK THE RAIL ROADS TO AID
Importance Of Farmer and Business
Man Cooperating Realized Mes
sage to Planters.

New OrleanS-Wih Hon. Martin (
Behrman, mayor OF New Orleans. (
James NJ Parker, president of the as. /
sociation, and more than dozen
Louisiana boosters and members "
the executive committee, the Rural
Cooperative Association met last week
and adopted plans which embrace a
statewide membership and tour for
a train of agricultural boosters that
will eclipse any previous undertaking.
The train will be known as the
agricultural special, and will tour
the state from the TeAas-Louisiana
line to the most southerly rail connec
tions. The month selected for The
boosting trip is next October.
The way FOR the agricultural special
will be blazed by freshly whitewashed
telegraph and telephone poles, barns
and outbuildings. and will be known
as the great white way.
Plans for the financing Of the cam
| paign of agricultural development III
| Louisiana were thoroughly discussed
at the meeting, and a resolution, in
| troduced by Mayor Behrman, was
! adopted for committee 10 call on
the various Louisiana railroads ask
ing them for an annual contribution
of 81 a mile on their respective track
age in this state. The building OF
cood roads was taken up and the prop
os:tion heartily indorsod.
TO increase the membership OF the
| Louisiana Rural Cooperative Assocla
ton il was decided to divide the state
into units, a parish TO embrace unit
Agents will be sent to each parish tc
preach the doctrine of cooperation
and to organize a chamber OF com
merce wherever one does not exist
Enthusiasm will be injected into th'
people, it is proposed, and every mai
and boy will be made a booster To-
Louisiana.
I'VE realize the great necessity TO
cooperation between the farmers
; Louisiana and the bankers of the state
to the end that city business men ma
! assist the rural residents to help then
= selves" President James NJ. Park@
a said after the meeting. Our conve'
!. tion has, therefore, issued this me:
!. sage to the people of Louisiana:
"First-Show the farmer, busines
: men, stockmen and all others Tn
t prosperous condition of Louisiana.
s. "Second-Cultivate feeling betwee
o the farmer and the business man c
d the mutual benefits to be game
through co-operationi-
s "Third-Educate the farmer an
the farmers children in order
l. make them prosperous.
d "Fourth-Show the rural citizen tn
g benefits of living on a cash basis an
T of raising all they consume on the
n farms.
e "Fifth-Convince the farmer ths
II every square foot of his property
# worth its weight in gold If he wi
s. cultivate his fence corners.
d ~Sixth-Let every community has
D. it's boosting organization, to the en-
Ia that the farmer may know everythin
that makes for the future OF his ind
vidual locality and his state.
"Seventh-Let every farmer utilli
all his acreage to its maximum efl
- ciencv by diversity of crops and co
"A servation of the fertility OF soil.
, "Eighth.-Grow coin and feed su
70 plus yield to stock.
=, "Ninth-Grade your cattle and hos
90 Remember that native mothers pr
70 duce fine general purpose food sto'
:, II placed with registered sires.
~ "Tenth-Last and most importal
accept as your slogan the official S
oan Of the Louisiana Rural Cooper
tive Association:
BELIEVE in Louisiana"
We The meeting was presided over
ul- Hon. Martin Behrman, chairman
ed the executive committee. Others pr
as ont we're: James NJ. Parker, OF Mi
ir- roe. president: Luther Ellison. of M
Die roe. secretary; J. p. Savant, of VIII
re castle: Guy G. Fenner, Of Alexandr
ri w. d. Hass, of Bunkie: Louis n. b
u.s. eggerhoff, of Shreveport; S. Arii
Knapp. of Lake Charles, and II. ID.
gar, of Monroe.
The Louisiana Rural Co-operat
re Acsociatjon was organized at Alex
IN. dria last April %. It's purpose is
,o,. develop agricultural resources OF
inc state.