The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-07-04
FARM EDITORS TO Be SHOWN.
Sight Seeing Tour Arranged for Visit
ing Journalists-Smcker at Etks'
Club and Plantation Breakfast
Features of Program

SGtAFGS VI
The special train carrying a party
of twenty-five or more editors and
managers of northern and western
farm and agricultural journals will
arrive at Donaldsonville next Satur-
day, the 18th inst, at O'Clock p.
~ The visitors will be met at the
depot by the local reception COM
mittee, in automobiles, and will be
conveyed to the Hotel Donaldson,
where they will be CHARTERED during
their stay here as the guests of the
city. At O'Clock Saturday evening
they will be rendered a smoker at
the Elks' Home, at which brief adj
dresses will be made by prominent
local business men and members OF
the visiting party. Next morning
they will be taken to the magnifi-
cent ancestral home of the Mccall
family on Evan Hall plantation, three
miles above Donaldsonvllle, where an
old-fashioned plantation breakfast will
be served, the menu to comprise,
among other delectable dishes, boiled
river shrimps, country cream cheese
and butter, and batter cakes with
cane syrup.
After partaking of this array Of
good things, the journalists will be
shown Mr. McCall's modern hog
farm, breeding a thoroughbred grade
of Duroc-Jersey swine from some of
the best stock to be found in the
United States. They will then visit
the Lemann Company's fine hog farm
on Crescent plantation and some of
the truck farms in the same neigh
borhood, which will afford them an
opportunity to see what Ascension
parish is doing in an agricultural way
and what the Ascension soil is capa-
Bile of producing.
The drive will be continued down
Bayou Lafourche as far as Napoleon
vile, where the tourists will be taken
through the mammoth Elm Hall SUI
gar refinery and canning plant of the
Godchaux Company, and will be
shown what that concern is doing in
the line Of diversified farming and
the splendid progress made toward
creating an agricultural industry to
take the place of sugar production in
the event the latter enterprise is
wiped out by adverse tariff legisla-
ton Luncheon will probably be ten
dered the party at the Elm Hall
plant or at Napoleonville, and DON
aldsonville will be reached on the re-
turn trip at about 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, when the visitors Will de-
part for New Orleans. Local bust
ness men and members of the Cham
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them on the automobile ride to an
sWer any questions they may ask
and make sure they see everything
tha+ is worth seeing.
The editors who will visit Donald
sonville represent farm papers that
have a combined circulation of over
100000. This means that their pa
pers are read by approximately 20,
100000 people. most of whom are of
the class Of thrifty, intelligent white
farmers it is desirable to have learn
the facts about Louisiana. The jour-
nalists will tell the facts as they
see them, and it therefore becomes
necessary for Donaldsonville and sur
rounding country to make the very
best showing possible in order to be
placed in the most favorable light
before the readers of these publica-
tions. Other parts of the state, from
ali reports, have entertained the visi-
tors royalty, and the people of this
city and section should see to it
that the strangers are Hospitality re-
ceived and accorded every courtesy
during their stay here, to the end
that they may take back with them
to their far-off homes naught but the
most pleasant recollections of Louisi-
ana and her people