St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-09-30
AN ANSWER TO
o. L. D. PHAR-
NEWSLETTER
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pearance Of being worked by q Wild
ow who is without means to employ
help to. work the place. II all the
farmers in st. Tammany parish pro-
duce q crop similar 10 mat produced
by the Captain at the experiment STA
ton it would bankrupt the parish.
Then where would the Captains sal
airy come from! Can 1t ne answer
ed NO. Another thing une Iarm-
ers Of st. Tammany parish Woulu IKE
to know is VINO the individual Was
that netted $4,000 per acre on one
tomato crop. The canning factory
paid from 45c to oUc per Dusnel
lCASH) tor tomatoes. 1t was prob
ably a misprint, he may nave meant
$500 or perhaps $1,000. The farm
ers would ike to see The Farmer
step into the neld and show US now
it's done. There are few farmers
outside Of Covlngton VINO are not
thoroughbred Jack Asses. ...
Please publish in your next lssu-
also a complete report OF the ex-
pertinent station.
xVUIO 1ANAy1
o. l.. u. PHARMER.
We can all see that the writer OF
this letter has up his sleeve a nam
mer, and his object is to KNOCK
whether he knows what he Is talk-
ing about or not. To further en-
lighten this gentleman an gong 10
answer his questions as he asked
them and in their order.
l. the 81 ortcomlngs OF the Ex-
pertinent Station at the Voss race:
There has never been an Expert
ment station located in the Qrlsn OF
st. Tammany in its history. that
know OF. Very few parishes in the
State have one. An Experiment Sta
ton costs lots of money and the state
or FEDERAL Government only can al
ford the expense OF meterlal and OF
expert labor IN carrying on the ex-
per4menls ana making up recoros.
Aga1n, an experiment station ID
Wuo-e nounlng II zone TO make prout'
hut new seeus are tired out, ne"
plants pred, new mixtures OF con-
melclal 1erti.lzers tried out, ana n
they 40 not DO the experiment sta-
ton is out noLhlng tor the Govern
meut Is approprlaung money Tor ina.
purpose.
A demonstration farm Is one where
the owner OF the farm. VINO ever. ne
may be, agrees to cultivate according
TO the Farm Demonstrator. lne
farmer has to foot the oils on DEM
onstration farms. There is no ap-
preparation anywhere for them. lne
DUTY OF the Farm Demonstration Is to
direct the operations OF the farm,
such as the proper kind OF fertinz-
ers, how to mix seed. and how to Sc
aect seed, how to treat plants Tor dis
ease. best kind Of farm implements,
how TO use same, how to treat live
stock for disease and to analyze soil.
II the farmer does not have tine mon
ey to carry out Instructions IS the
demonstration man suggests, all that
can be done Is to do the best. and 80
on. The experiment station the
writer of this 'etter is raving about
has never and does not exist. He
has reference to q farm OF Is acres
ON the old Voss place owned by Mr..
Edward G. Byrnes. Mr.. Byrnes
agreed to cultivate these few acres
o. directed. It was called a DEM
OnstratiOn farm, as 1t was our full
intention to carry on demonstrations
there showing what profit could be
made in the production Of truck ana
general crops. We started in Febru-
ary, 1914, and everything went well
till September Of the same year. A
report was made at that time of what
had been done. It showed that the
place had made on five acres an av-
erage of So bushels Of corn. that 125
bushels Of Irish potatoes had been
made per acre In spite of long
drought. and truck crops were . sue
cess. that the place had made money
up to that date. Mr.. Hooper, VINO
had charge of the place. as tar Is the
work was concerned got sick and had
to move to Anita Springs. The place
was for several weeks without any
attendant. Only inferior negro Ia
bor could be picked up and Mr..
Byrnss could not be with them per
sonally, and could not be there any
more than about once . week. On
such worthless labor no man could
have done anything demonstrating
crop growing for profit. To demon
Atrate, things must be done at the
proper time and In the right man
ner. This / could not get done at
ter the good man left and gave up
the farm ~ q bad chance to make
any showing especially when we had
no money to work on. l think this
will we'll explain to Mr.. Pharmer
about what he wanted to know about
the great experiment station.
3. Kind Of STUFF for Which the
Farmers are Paying q High Tax:
What kind OF stun are you talking
about, Pharmer? II you are talk |
ting about me, do not know who
you are but want you to come to
my face and tell me, not take adj
vantage of Z man thru the mail and |
then nat sign your name. do not
even know IL YOU are farmer or
not, but II you are you must have
some desire to make an improvement
on your place. Sir, It il my desire
TO help you make these Improvements
and to advise you when can be OF
service to you. Tho you may knock
me every day In the year it would
not keep me away from your place,
II you ever called on me to come.
As far as the high tax is concern
ed. Mr.. Pharmer, you can figure out
how much you pay on my salary on
the following basis: If you are as
sessed for $1,000 you pay about one
cent per year on my salary and that
10 al that the great experiment sta