The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-01-30
STRAY NOTES FROM THE BATON
ROUGE SHORT COURSE.
Baton Rouge, Jan. 26.

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of that feast of reason and flow of
souP that is here for the asking at
Garig Hall each evening Of the short
course, you would better engage your
quarters beforehand, for our hotel room
is about full and some visitors have to
accept billiard-table for couch.
Busy always, our old friends of the
University and State Boards, DR.. Dod-
son, DR.. Dalrymple, DR.. Flower, Pro-
fessor Kidder, Mr.. Snowden, and their
host Of associates, without exception,
seem to have an Indiarubber capacity
for bestowing another moment and yet
there is never word or even gesture
of Impotence. No matter what the
tax they meet it with a smile that is
an inspiration.
AS an echo of school-boy days do
you recollect hearing the slogan:
Fight Fight" shrieked out on the
run and seeing the gathering excited
knot of pushing humanity as two hand
some kids were urged on to pommel
each others faces? Well, that looks
very like it yonder.
No; it's only big Jack Redhead, an
old Wilkinson county boy, and Pro
lessor Kiser with a score of future
presidents all crowded about the States
premium Hereford bull, and training
themselves to judge clean Threats,
deep backs, straight underlines, mellow
skin, thighs, twists, etc. Why, when
those boys become full-grown farmers,
that $S0,OOO,OOO that the South sends
North and West to purchase corn is
going to stay at home and be shared in
by us ALL
On every visitor is impressed the fact
that all our cattle are sick (ticks) and
no matter where we ship them are
handled and priced as sick cattle.
Eleven parishes are now working to
eradicate ticks and seem bound to
succeed Watts, good serviceable vats,
are being put in by contractors in diff
ferent parts of the state at cost of
$125 and less per vat complete, all
material included. But are only those
parishes going to put in watts that can
afford to pay $125 per vat? No indeed,
brother. In one parish the U. S. De-
monstration Agent secured from the
Police Jury an appropriation for only
$780, This will buy the cement A
lumber company Is giving the lumber,
and the farmers themselves are going
to haul the sand and gravel and do the
work themselves and build dozen
watts. Yes, where there's an honest
will, the way is easy in Louisiana:
And now Mr.. Rothrock of the U. s.
grain Standardization laboratory is
teaching us the nature of merchantable
corn. In the North and West the grow
ing season of corn is short. 1t does
not have sufficient time to mature on
the standing stalk, SO it must cure, dry
out, after being harvested. 1t has too
much moisture in it for early ship
ment and generally comes to New
Orleans about December 18th, the main
rush being during the first six weeks
of the new year. Now corn grades low
on account of moisture, broken or
rotten grains, dirt, ETC. The dirt and
broken grains can always be cleaned
out When found in corn they stand
for pure carelessness-som cuss-
edness.
1t was not mentioned by Mr.. Roth
rock at all, but it is palpably for the
benefit of every farmer and every
market in the United States to have
universal and uniform U. S. Govern
ment Standardization and inspection of
grain and none other.
Then Prof. Kidder began to teach us
in his clear, matter-of-fact, common
sense way: Our Southern corn has a
long season and cures in the field. We
can gather it sometimes in October,
nearly always in November, and find
the moisture sufficiently dried out for
shipment and grading. AS the weevils
injure our corn seriously, especially in
early spring, it is to our advantage to
put out corn on the market before the
Northern corn comes down, say before
December 18th. The Northern winters
are so long and the summers so short
that weevils there cannot develop in
juriously. If we pull our corn in the
shuck and put it through a shucker and
shelter combined, it will contain broken |
grains, as our shuck in this latitude is
thick and close and hard to remove
Besides, no machine has so far been
that would do this work
and last reasonably SO our corn ought |
to be shucked and the most economical /