The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-01-11
STATE FARMERS HOLD
BATON ROUGE MEETING

Louisiana farmers met in theil
fourth annual conference Mondat
at the State University, |, w. Wes4
of Hammond, presiding. 4
Col. T. D. Boyd was the first speaI
or to address the meeting. He stag
ed that it was through such confer
ences and the men who attend thenA
that the university was seeking g
do it's work of reaching every faruf
ing element and every farming seq
ton Of Louisiana
President Boyd said that the STAFF
University was spending more moneI
Oil its college of agriculture than uH
on any other department, and thai
the world generally way coming Il
fast appreciate that the science q
farming was the most importan
taught in any school.
He said that the general assem-
bly, of Louisiana owed it to the UNI
versity and to the farmers of thE
state to make an appropriation a
it's next session of 100000 for TIL
erection of a college of agriculture
building, where gatherings such al
the one now opening could be held.
Louisiana is farming state, he id
| clared, and the state should maxi
proper recognition of this fact by al
adequate appropriation for an agrI
cultural building.
| Governor Hall was introduced bI
President West as the farm gov
elncc of louisiana because thI
farmers of the state elected him
The governor said that he belonged
to that class of farmers who farmeI
only once in every four years.
The governor insisted that the we
fare of tn country was wrapped u
| with the farmer. AS the farmer pro!
pers the state prospers, and as n
Jared i'll, so Jared the state. FL
governor said that there was a
awakening of the Importance Of in
ltelligence and scientific farming, an
that the farmers were throwing ava
their almanacs and buying alarl
clocks.
"One of the great difficulties W
have to successful farming here /
Louisiana is that our lands are /
too large tracts. The man who own
the lands is not the man who is il
Iterested in cultivating the land'
l. He is only interested in getting hi
lrents, but there will be breakin
| up of these large farms"
| The governor discussed the sui
| ject of rural credits. He said tn
farmers of this country were payin
is per cent interest for the none
they secured, against Az PER cent
the countries of Europe, where
proper system of rural credits e,
listed. The money the farmers us
in this country every year is costin
them $24O, 100000 more than it shout
The governor said that Louisiar
had taken a step towards solvir
the problem of rural credits by tt
adoption of the recent COMPRESSION
amendment exempting from taxatie
: corporations organized to loan none
to farmers at per cent.
II r. H. Harris, state Superntendel
5 of education, spoke He approved
: the plan for the erection of lart
s agricultural building upon the unive
sity campus, and said that the sta
4 should erect one costing a quarter
e q million dollars.
I "If you farmers demand it, II
S general assembly will make provisit
for the building" insisted Mr.. Harr'
S Mr.. Harris said that there we
t not enough country schools; tn
there were plenty of schools in q
country farmed along the lines
the city schools, but not enoul
schools that taught the farmer b.
n how to stay on the farm and broug
g 10 the country school the atmosphe
5. Of the successful farm.
h After the address of Mr.. Harl
IS there was business meeting OF {
It Louisiana Agricultural Associate
n with the enrolment of number
W new members.