The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-01-09

exhibit, and spoke enthusiastically
of the work, and especially of the
school cannery. The school holds
the cup for corn Judging. given by
the L. S. U. One of the boys won
a prize for a hog he bought for SO,
and after a year he still had his
prize Duroc and had sold SS5 worth
of her off-springs Another won q
prize at Shreveport for an eight
months-old pig. At fourteen months
the pig weighed 425 pounds. The
boys of Ascension will be some
sfaEEa aenssz 2 here's arss1 40 pf
the high school. 3 s..
J. K. Newman, Of New Orleans,
owns $50 acres of fine land that is
being conducted as an experiment
farm. Corn, clover and various other
fie crops show what can be done
under expert supervision.
The plantations of the Bernard
Lemann family are mammoth modern
farms bristling with achievement.
The roads are oiled and the upkeep
perfect. There are 400 Duroc hogs.
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A silo is being erected, and a dip
ping vat will be built, for the Lem
aims are also going into cattle ON
a large scale. There are five Dip
ping vats in the parish and more
are contemplated. On the PaIo Alto.
there is an experimental cotton
crop, and on the Souvenir caulifloW
er is being grown with success. The
Lemann plan is to supplement SUI
gar with hogs and cattle for the food
market on a large scale, and to try
other crops Practical colonization
will also be tried.
Evan Hall is a mansion that is
part OF the history of Louisiana. It
has always been famous for it's hos
pitality and in former years there
gathered beneath its friendly roof
upon the broad yerandas and in the
shadow of the great live oaks the
beauty aud ehiYalry of the southland
It is owned by Henry G. and Evan
j. Mccall, and the rich plantation
is known by the name of the man
sion. Live stock coupled with diver
sified crops are replacing cane and
cotton, and every modern convent
ence is being provided for using up
to-date methods in care and cultiva-
ton.
An automobile ride down the
thickly settled Lafourche valley land
ed us at Napoleonville, the capital
of Assumption parish. It is a typi-
cal southern town, has nice court
house in the center of blooming
garden, and a hospitable people greet
strangers with the glad hand freely
extended Napoleonville is abreast
of the times in many things, and the
latest venture is a selling associa-
tion with d capital of $4,000 that
looks after a market for the farm
ers and truck gardeners in that VIZ
cinity. r. j. LeGardeur is manager,
and his principal business will be
the encouragement of the truck
farming industry Not far distant
from the town is the Godchaux Elm
Hall plantation, where much truck
is grown, and where a section of the
sugar mill now contains the largest
cannery in the state, with capac-
ity Of $4,000 cans daily, though the
output is still only 10000, with the
demand greater than the supply.
Corn, tomatoes, okra and figs are
the principal present products. Eve
are buying everything right here, .
said Superintendent w H. Webb,
formerly with the Van Camps. '"The
people are getting much interested
and 80 per cent Of the farmers are
putting in our crops without being
asked. Some OF our tenants have
made $40 az acre on tomatoes, with.
out interfering with their other
crops. The quality of our products
has proven good, and the market il
open and ready. Our plant is only
a drop in the bucket, SO there ii
lots of room. This country is ready
for canneries, and only benefit vii
follow. We can produce more can
ned goods to the acre than any 9th
er state, and there is room and pow
er in our sugarhouses to run the
plants successfully,