St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-04
Eradication of the Tick, Introduction of Good
= Breed of Stock. Proper Curing and Pack
ing and Other Important Matters.
) THE use OF SOME ICE PLANTy:E..ADYEED
Address Made by Judge lancaster at Sun, Was One
sof the Very Enjoyable Features of the Maetipg and
syaaBig Help IN Impressing Importance ofWorkI

An interesting series OF meetings
were held in different parts OF the
parish the past week IN the interest
Of the development ol, the live stock
industry and the seneral Improve
meut OF farming conditions. Prof.
W. r. Perkins. forage crop special
ist, and Turner Wright, marketing
speeieatsk with the Live Stock Ex-
tension Service Of the U. s. Depart
ment Of Agriculture; were the speak.
~. Accompanied by Farm Dem
onstrator !. L. Pritchett and supt.
n E.~Lyon. tour was made be-
ginning at Sun. 10 O'Clock Thnrs-,
day morning and ending At Coving-
ton Friday night. The meetings
were. fsirly we'll attended. especially
1T Snn and Jacksonville.
Tho sDeedng. at Sun was especial
ly 0uocossful.s A basket dinner Was
served on the ground. and 1~tarEe
number o6 farmers were present.
Dr. y S::ss-Smith. in- charge OF the
tick. eradicadon propaganda, OF the
0fate, swaaaalso @roeent at. this meet
ipg and discussed the importance
Of eradicattng tho cattle tick before
stock raising in this parish could h
made very profitable.
DR.. Smith said that the opposi-
tion to dipping cattle was due alto
sother to the fact that people did
NOT realiSe the great benefits de1tv-
"a feom having q tick free country.
and that this was illustrated by the
vuanimous sentiment favorable to
dok eradication In parishes that haf
beeome tick free. He stated that
there were four or i've different
ktnds Of ticks that carried Texas
fever. This tick could live only on
cattle. and by systematic and gen.
.ersal dipping It could be eradicated
lRAone year, and the parish be kept
tick free from then on, provided the
quarantine " was enforced and We
did. not allow the importation Of tacl
in1ested cattle. DR.. Smith said that
nahed been proven by actual test
ehAt 20 per cent OF the feed we feed
. GOV with Texas fever went TO feed
tha tick. Another and . very Inn,
Dokfant thing relative to the tick to
haIsken into consideration was that
on aconnt OF. the quarantine lave
seAiust the shipping Of tick Infested
cattle, our markets for cattle would
be- restricted and therefore prices
vpnh be lower unless the tick va:
edAdicated. He made Z very. earn
ss9s Plea for the beginning Of = ticf
eu1Mcation campaign, stating that
searly every parish and county sur.
rounding us were making greater
advances IN this work than We were
end that We should wake up to the
imperative necessity Of beginning
work on tick eradication. II we de-
sired to succeed in stock raising.
! Prof. Perkins based his discus
aiena on forage crops for cattle and
begs ana the Importance OF the
leGsame as a land builder, stat
ing that he considered these sub
jects Of most importance to this
pa1ish. He said that we were con-
fronted with two facts: First. the
imperative necessity Of developing
agriculture. and second, the posses
sion Of very poor land. Both OF
these problems could be solved II We
went at them in a business way
In our stage Of development, the
safest money crop that we can grow
Is the right kind of forage crops
marketed through oood. cattle and
hogs. However, the live stock In
dustry had never proven very profit
able with scrub stock, but that b.
grading up and heading the herd
With pure-bred male OF any stand
ard variety, profits could be i'm
creased SO per cent. The main thing
Is t3 grow cheap forage. In cattle
raising on anything like . large
scAle. the silo is an All-importAnf
item. The judicious use of ensilagt
had been proven to result In q saw
tnE OF IS per cent on the feed bill
Experiments a. the Louisiana Ell
pertinent Station had demonstrated
that the Texas ribbon cane sorghum
was probably the cheapest form q
ensilage, as the yield was nearly
twice as much. as corn and the feed.
Ing value very nearly as good
Prof. Perkins strongly urged the
farmers to grow forage crops aor the
hogs. allowing them to do their own
harvesting. under what. 10 known -
the Dodsou piau Of hog rafsing. For