St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-04-19
THE la. corn
YIELD | TO Be
INCREASED

Farmers In Diversified
ton of Crops
Ten Thousand Dollars to b
Raised to Organize Cen
eral Association
New Orleans, April 14.-There wa
further development Saturday in tn
campaign for the agricultural upli1
or Louisiana and Arkansas, starte
by the Monroe district boosters an
| the cooperating railroads in brine
Ing Prof. Perry G. Holden, the note
corn expert, to Louisiana. At a con
| ference at the st. Charles Hotel ii
| the morning, participated in by J. N
Parker. general manager of the Ark
ansas, Louisiana and Gulf Railway
Luther Ellison, secretary of the Mon
roe Chamber of Commerce; C.. C
Kirkpatrick, secretary of the Littl
Rock Progressive League; E. r. Ben
net, horticultural expert of the Rocl
Island, and G. H. Afford of Atlanta
an agricultural writer and student o
farm economics, who is assistant t.
Prof. Holden
The project as outlined by M
Parker at the meetings Friday, ant
further expatiated on at the banque
to the visitors at the Monteleont
Hotel. given by the Progressive I'm
ion committee, was further discuss
ed. 1t was agreed that steps should
be taken At once to ask the assist
ance Of the Louisiana railroads, com.
merical bodies and others interest
ed in the increase of corn and the di.
versification of crops to raise q fund
OF SIC, 900 to push the movement and
to organize q general association OF
commercial bodies of Louisiana. The
good work accomplished by Prof.
Holden and the twenty-six agricul-
tural educators on the corn train, II
was agreed, should be followed with
. campaign through the country and
Arkansas that farmers may be in
structed In the methods of Prof. Hol-
den and the importance OF testing
the seed for the 1914 crop. It was
decided also that it is of greatest i'm
portance to teach seed selection and
testing for all crops.
Prof. Holden is to make an investi-
cation of the selection of cotton seed,
with the idea of increasing the yield
OF the cotton farms per acre, and tG
further the intensive farming of that
crop. It is Mr.. HOlden's idea that
by testing cotton seed 1t will be pos
sible for the planters to utilize a
greater part Of their lands for corn
because they will not
have to plant so much cotton. BY
that means the farmers will be able
to raise their own corn, lespedeza
hay, potatoes, oats and legumes, so
the fert III = -. =
readily conserved by animal DROP
pings and the scientific rotation of
crops to increase the nitrogen CONF
ponent. Another object of this re-
search will be to induce the planters
and farmers Of the South to abandon
the vicious one-crop system and ar
range their affairs so that they can
60 from a credit to q cash basis.
Prof. Holden was unable to be pres
ent at the cOnferenc Saturday morn
ing on account Of the stress OF hos
pitality Of the local committee. The
was spent In taking him to
the reclaimed lands Of the New Or
leans Lake Shore Lana Company at
Little Woods. and In the afternoon
he and his party were the guests OF
the committee ON a tour OF the city
In automobiles ending with an In
spection of the filtration plant.
The Monroe business men spent the
day to their personal advantage IN
visiting merchants and business men
Of New Orleans. The party depart
ed for Monroe last night at 10 O'Clock
on the Texas & Pacific, through the
courtesy of Thomas j. Freeman. first
vice president of the Gould line. It
wac at first decided that the party
would return Friday night, but the
visitors found the city SO attractive
they they induced Judge Freeman to
change his arrangements.
Luther Ellison stated that the
members of the party desired to ex-
press thanks to the railroads for the
donation of train service, and espe-
cially to the Edenborn Line for the
many favors extended and the cour-5
tesy Of its representatives. The
party adopted resolutions thanking
The New Orleans commercial bodies
and the land men for their hospitality
and incorporated several sections
thanking others.
Il was decided to have a hand
somely inscribed parchment ON wnicn
The citizens of Mornoe district should
express their thanks and appreciation
10 the various railroads, the Cumber-
and Telephone Company. Prof..
Holden and his assistants, and the
,thrra Who contributed to the soccess
Df the excursion.
prof Holden left Saturday night
To- Chicago. He expressed himself
IS being highly pleased with the sue
cess of the corn demonstration tram
This movement Is Just beginning
IN Louisiana he said, and am de-
lighted with what has been accom-
,iished. The interest created ct all
points along the lines traversed shows
low eager the people are to accept
,ur message. Both in the cities and
brought the, country there seems
8 be a general awakening to the
,alue Of corn culture, and what the
members of our party had to say
vas received in such way that
.ould not but be encouraged. | want
o come back to Louisiana and hold
series of short courses. ]. hope
O hold corn course at the capital
lext year, and ] know it will be
uccess
II have always believed that Lou
siana was to be the greatest corn
country in the world, and 1t is my
PREDICTION that it will equal Iowa in