New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-05-01
SENATOR RANSDELL WANTS
THOUSAND FARMERS TO
ATTEND UNIVERSITY
SHORT COURSES.


merce, cooper atiVc effort with al
: the other associations Of com
, merce, agricultural societies, 20
= lice JurIeS and individual farm
ers, to get from the Legislature,
) adequate support for the agrlctl
tural college Of the State lnFNcrS
ity.
Also, he urges campaign to
persuade 1000 farmers 10 attend
the agricultural snort courses at
the University next winter.
"There ism t a farmer in 10; is
lana who couIdn t make money for
himself by attending the short
courses in agl iculture at Loulsl-
ana State University. There ism =
a planter who wouldn't make
profit if he would send his man
ager or 90 himself to those short
courses. One Of the best services
to be rendered Louisiana would
be for the associations of com
mcrce OF the State to conduct a
campaign to treble and quad up'e
the number Of farmers who attend
those courses.
This statement was made by
United States Senator RansdeIl
to members of the land and I'M
migration committee Of the Assoc
citation Of Commerce in New De
leans following u conference on
ways and means to establish more
sympathetic and cordial relations
between New Orleans and the
rural sections of the State. and
to promote more eiIlclent meth
DDS Of agriculture.
81 know that from nv own eX-
perience said the Senator. Il
sent my plantation manager to
Baton Rouge last February to the
short course i'll agriculture and
what he learned about farming
generally, especially about feed
ing a balanced ration to my
mules and stock, is saving me
many times what | have ever paid
in taxes to support the schools
of Louisiana.
"Our people do not realize
what practical working plant,
busy twelve months in the year to
help them, has been buiIded up
about the State University.
ut is modelled after the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, it's work is
devised along similar lines, ana
its results, in quality, have been
of the same excellent sort. There
are experts in practical agricul-
ture there at Baton Rouge, like
DIR. Dodson of the State Expert
ment Station, like DR.. Dalylmple,
the great veterinarian, like DR..
kidder, Prof. Jordan, Prof. Tie
bout, Prof. Tucker, and others
not to mention DR.. Coats of the
Sugar School-whose regulations
are established in the country.
"Unhappily, the State has not
given the institution the funds
needed to enable it to do it's great
est amount of good; Or to carry
the gospel of what it could do
down to the individual farmer.
II am told that the University
OF Wisconsin after which it is
modelled, gets three million dol
lars year. The Louisiana State
University gets only a paltry hun
dred thousand dollars year from
our STATED
"To our shame be it said. that
Louisiana, where agriculture is
now and always will be the great
est interest, has spent only ten
thousand dollars for agricultural
buildings at the University. The
structures occupied by this de-
paltment were all donated by the
Federal government, were part of
the old garrison and arsenal
equipment, and the agricultural
hail. was once Uncle Sans black |
smith shopl
II would suggest two practical
things to stimulate better agri. |
cultural society, every police jury.
every city council in Louisiana,
and at least fifty leading farmers
IN everyone Of our sixty-forr par !
lshes tell the Louisiana General,
Assembly that the people want
Louisiana State University
equipped to do its full work Of
good for Louisiana's farmers:
Second: Get these same |
agencies working together ON a
campaign to increase the number
of those who go to the winter
" short courses" from the $50 who
were there in February of this
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