The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-05-01
FOR GOOD OF LOUISIANA.
Senator RansdeIl Wants Thousand
Farmers to Attend University
Short courses-Agricuitur col-
leae Should be Better Supported.

Short courses-AgricuituraI Col
leae Should be Better Supported.
Senator j. b. Ransdell proposed to
the New Orleans Association of
Commerce cooperative effort with
all the other associations of COM
merce, agricultural societies, police
iuries and individual farmers in Lou
iaahna to get from the legislature ad-
eauate support for the agricultural
college of the State University.
f Also, he urges campaign to per-
suade 1000 farmers to attend the
agricultural short courses at the.
University next winter,
There isn't q farmer iii Louisiana
who couldn't make money for himself
by attending the short courses IN
agriculture at Louisiana State Uni
versity. There isn't q planter who
wouldn't make profit If he would
send his manager or so himself to
those short courses. One OF thee
5est services to be rendered Louisi-
ana would be for the associations Of
commerce Of the state to conduct a
campaign to treble saM quadruple the
number of farmers who attend tlaSs&
courses. Z $fE#
This statement was made by Sena-
tor Ransdell to members Of the land
and immigration committee of the
Associatoa Of Commerce in New Or
leans following q conference on ways
and means to establish more SYM
pathetic and cordial relations be-
tween New Orleans and the rural
sections of the state, and to- pro-
mote more efficient methods Of agri-
culture.
Our people do not realize what a
practical working plant, busy twelve
months in the year to help them,
has been builded up about the State
University. y
know that from my own expert
ence,' said the Senator. Z sent my
plantation manager to Baton Rouge
sast I II sss to the short course in
agriculture and What what he learned
about farming geh@rally especially
about feeding a balanced ration to
my mules and stock, is saving me
many times what have ever paid in
taxes to support the schools of Lou
| isiana.
| 1T is modelled after the University
of Wisconsin, its work is devised
along similar lines, and its results,
in quality, have been Of the same
excellent sort. There are experts
in practical agriculture there at
Baton Rouge, like DR.. Dodson OF the
Il Gfa stssts sfy1, TAs
DaIrymple, the great veterinarian
like DR.. Kidder. Prof Jordan, Prof
i Tucker, and othersnot to mention
DIR. Coates Of the sugar school
/ whose regulations are establishes
I FIJI tbs eol1n til
Unhappily, the state has moi
IgiVen the Institution the funds need
ed to enable it to do its greatest
amount of good; or to carry the
gospel of what it could do. down te
1.-THE individual farmer. s
III am told that the University o1
Wisconsin, after which it is modelled
Igets three million dollars a. year
] The Louisiana State University gefs
/ only a paltry hundred thousand dol
lars a year from our state.
To our. shame. be- 1t said that Lou
i Eaa, where agriculture is now an6
will be the greatest inter
I 7 81 - At only ten thousand
dollars for agi iief,ltural buildings al
the University! The structures oe
lcl1pied by this department were al
donated by the federal government
were part of the old garrison ane
arsenal equipment, and the agricul
tural hall'' was once Uncle Sans
blacksmith shopi
would suggest two practica
things to stimulate betteP agri
Icultural methods and improve coun
TRY prosperity In Louisiana
First: Let every commercial or
i fganization, every agricultural SO
/ ciety. every police jury, every cit.
council in Lousana, and at least fif
Ity leading farmers In everyone b
our sixty-four parishes tell the Lou
i isiana general assembly that the peo
i pie want Louisiana State Universit,
Equipped to do its full work Of goot
!. for Loufsiana's farmers.
Second: Get these same agencie
working together on campaign t,
increase the number of those who g,
| to the winter short courses iron
4 the $50 who were there in FabiMAr.
OF this year to a 9und thousand b
twelve hundred in the Winter Of mex
i year. =