The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-03-14
BIRTH OF A FELIClANA STOCK
FARM.
Continued from page one.)

shivering under it's February snowfall |
thirty lambs made their advent on this
West Feliciana plantation and were
duly given shelter.
1t is said by those who know that
great part of the success of this COM
paratively new venture is owing to the
fact that never was stock SO tenderly
cared for and 80 kindly and humanely
handled AS consequence, there Will
be no trouble about what is known as
the breaking" Of the colts, for every
colt feels privileged to nuzzle into
pockets and to thrust an inquiring nose
into convenient hands; and they will
all be bridle-wise before they are
weaned
Work Just Begun.
There is hardly anything to say
about this work yet" says Mr.. Parker;
"for it has only just begun. We can't
call attention to what we have done
only to what we are hoping to do. 1t
| is just pioneer work, you see."
But the best things that have ever
been done, in the South and elsewhere,
owe their ultimate success to the men
who devoted themselves to move
ment when it was met with jeers and
criticisms, and no one else believed it
was worth trying.
Is Louisiana to become distinguished
as a cattle-raising State?
Suck straws as this indicate the d.
rection of the wind very clearly. In
that same parish of West Feliciana is
one citizen who makes specially of
buying cattle and fattening them for
New Orleans market He says that
beef is worth so much ION the hoof"
In these high-cost-of-living days that it
lpays exceedingly we'll to buy these cat
tie and put two or three hundred
pounds of good weight on each of them,
as that extra weight is largely profit
for him. And this is in one of the Lou
lisiana parishes-that is worth remem-
Ibering!
| 1t Is not to be forgotten that silos are
to be installed on the Parker planta-
ton before summer.
The silo! That is the key of the
whole situation throughout the South.
That is the one thing which will
enable the Louisiana farmers to raise
cattle at the least possible expense;
; las the silo will have the waste from
the summer, to store it up for use-in
the winter.
Corn that dries on the stalk, it is
!; lsaid, manages to preserve only forty
six per cent of it's nutritive qualities;
; but when it Is taken "in the dough"
: land run through cutting machine and
lstored In a silo, it saves So per cent.
II have never seen such country Of
waste!" was the despairing exclama-
ton of Northern man last fall, look
ing at the unnumbered tons of green
, blades that were stripped from the
cane on sugar plantation and left to
lrot on the ground. do you absolutely
} tell me that nothing can be done with
. this sugar.cane fodder?"
But no, nothing could be done with
! 1t, they told him. The cattle didn't
, care for it. No one troubled to remove
1t from the place where it fell
And now, behold! Some man has
tried an experiment with it. He has
run 1t through his cutting machine and
has stored it In silo to "ripen," and
, when winter came, and it was offered
to the cattle, they went wild over the
first taste of it and could not get
enough.
The country of waste! Think of the
} millions Of tons of good cattle feed
that have been thrown away on the
sugar plantations!
But this will not be the first time
that the South has trampled under
foot one Of her most valuable assets.
Perhaps the time will come when
farmers on these same. plantations will
plant sugar cane in order to pack silos
to oyerfowing with the best possible
winter food for their cattle!
All things are possible to a State
like Louisiana-which is beginning to
add to her great natural resources the
best agricultural methods and the
strongest determination to make these
resources produce large and more sat
Iisfying results.
The straws have shown the direction
Of the wind. Louisiana is adapted to
the raising of fine stock as few sec
tons Of the country have ever been;
. and the pioneer work that is being
: done Is showing the way. There is no
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