The weekly Iberian., 1914-08-29
THE DEMONSTRATION
LIVE STOCK FARM
Continued from page /.


or the bringing Of the people to the
farm.
Gen'l Manager II. J. Lockwood of
the N. l. d Northern Railroad assured
the audience of the hearty co-opera-
tion of his road in every way.
Mr. Jno Catiery Of St Mary told of
the growing interest IN our neighbor-
ing parish and Of his own deep inter
est in the undertaking lie argued
that the same line Of work. under the
auspices Of the State ~ Baton Rouge.
was easily accessible to the farmers of
lberville, but not convenient to those
of this section. Therefore, if this
farm were located IN Ibprvilie it
would be duptcating what they al
ready have and it would serve prac-
ticaliy far less number of farms.
Mr. Chivers, the manager of the
Southwestern Louisiana DEVELOPMENT
Bureau, composed Of l3 parishes, Ibe-
ria being one Of them, responded to
call and stated that his organization
had been doing a great deal of mis-
sionary work IN this direction for The
past year. This missionary work has
undoubtedly done much in preparing
the farmer for todaY's accomplish
ment. While he is not authorized To
speak for Lafay cite, he was confident
that this undertaking would be most
enthusiastically endorsed and encour-
aged 10y the farmers Of his entire par.
ish.
W ID. Dinkins Of st. Mary and
Emile Vuillemot of ST Martin, both
IN clear cut talks outlined the deep
interests of the farmers of their re-
speCtive parishes aud their disposition
to co operate in this undertaking.
Mr.. Henry N. Pharr, of Orange
Grove plantation, gave an outline of
his experience with the tick and re
counted his success in cradicating
them. As president of the Iberia *
st. Mary Live stock Raisers Associa-
ton he was authorized to pledge the
cooperation of the entire member
H.p, ii
= Mr.. Hendricks of the n. !. Cream \
'ery made most interesting talk.
showing the growth of the pa ronage
of that new institution. New Iberia
IS now sending away Sl23 per day for
butter. Our creamery can supply eV-
cry pound of that demand if the farm
ers viii send IN their cream to the
plant. The Creamery is now self sus-
taining, but it will probably need a
few more sources of supply of cream
this winter to keep up this record II |
is now paying out $500 a week to
farmers Tor cream He significantly
declared that COWS aud hard timesl
do not keep company N
Hon, +. S. Broussard presented Il e
following resolutions, which were
adopted by a unanimous rising vote.
After noting the standing audience
the Chairman turned to Mr.. Rawls |
and asked # he thought il was worth
while to ask for the negative" vote?
That formality being useless, by COM
mon consent, II was dispensed with.
The resolutions follow
Be it resolved by the farmers,
planters and other business men
assembled in Mass Meeting: That
it is the unanimous sense of those
present that this meeting pledge
each and every one in attendance
to the carrying out of all the re
commendati0ns and suggestions
of the Fedora, State and parochi-
al authorities towards the eradica
tion Of the cattle tick, hog cholera
and charbon from the limits of
this Parish, and the people at.
tending this meeting hereby
pledge themselves to use their In
huence with their nelghbors and
the whole people OF this parish to
CO operate with the authorities to
accomplish this result.
And be it further resolved, etc. +: |
That we hereby specially request
the Governor of the State TO sci
aside, OF caused to be dedicated,
five hundred acres, of that portion
Of the Hope State Farm known as
Rosedale, for the purpose of locat.
ing the proposed live stock de-
monstration fam
DIR. DRlrymple then lectured for
over an hour on the history, cbarac-
teristics, and control OF Charbon.
The meeting lasted fully three hours
before finally adjourning and the in
terest of all was so general and sim
cere that but few departed before its
formal closing Every seat in the
spacious court room was occupied and
dozens more were compelled to stand
by the hour. 1t is doubtful if more
and representative audience
was ever assembled in this city.