The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-11-03


sad Live Stock Show at New Orleans,
Nov. 1919, Will have the only fair
superintendent in khaki
1t required pretty near all the power
that could be gotten together In these
United States, but General Manager
|. d. Ranayson had his way, and John
M. Parker, Jr.. will again be at the
head Of the live stock department.
Parker Is q stockman il ever there
WAS one. even it he still is young
ster. Everybody In the United States
knows the senior Parker as one Of
the most patriotic and independent:
citizens, He was Roosevelt's most
trusted leader In the south as long as
he thought Roosevelt was right. Wien
Roosevelt. because OF his opposition
to Wilson, tried to take the Progress
styes to Hughes. Parker thought
Roosevelt was wrong and turned
around and helped elect Wilson John,
Jr., oldest son and still boy, did not
bother much about politics, but he in
herited his fathers Independence anu
love for the open air He preferred
doing things to going to college, and
asked to be given a chance on one Of
the Parker plantations. Then hilly
estate In West Feliciana, near Bayou
Sara, was turned over to him and a
comrada to convert into a cattle para
disc.
The boys were not given a blank
check to till in. for that is no way to
learn practical and profitable farming.
They had just about enough capital
for small farmers foundation, and
the rest OF the programme Was theirs
to work out They did 1t. The. built
UP with the material they found
around them: they did not waste any
time on scrubs, and they went after
crops In keeping with the high-grade |
stock they raised They constructed
their barns and hog houses ont OF che I
waste wood. they erected their own
concrete stlos out OF the sand they
hauled from the creeks IN only u /
couple OF years they had alfalfa, corn
and other fields. Hereford and Angus
grade stesrs, horses, mules and shet-
land ponies. Duroe hogs. southdown
and other shsep. goats and poultry.
and were declaring dividends. Just /
at the top Of hia triumph young PARK
or was asked TO go to the city and /
give hand to some OF his fathers
large affairs, dividing his tins be-
tween the plantations and the cotton
office, As live citizen, approaching
the valus OF fairs. he readily consent I
ed to give hand to the National Farm
and Live Stock Show. too.
Young Parker entered a herd In tie t
swine show heat year and went out to
the fair grounds to look after its ar
rival He found some congestion and I
confusion incident to the rush of
first attempt. and he Strengthened
things out He found the cattle in
need Of looking after aad took chargs
there He found q dozen and one
things that had to be attended to, and
attended to them. He was buyer and
seller, he was master of transporta-
ton and boss OF the barns; he was q
Judge and clerk; he was all things
in all the avenues OF helpfulness, and
he did not even atop working when
night came. He worked without ap-
pointment, without publicity and with
out pay, and his reward was that all
the stock exhibitors said that he made
the road easy for them and that they
had not complaint TO voice. Man.
agsr Rennyson regarded the youngster
as almost the entire live stock staff,
and was sure that with such co-opera-
ton the National would become Inter
national and the greatest fair In the
country. So he appointed young Par,
ker live stock leader for life.
When this years show was planned
and the premium list prepared the
name and picture ct John NJ, Jr., were
high above ali others. The trouble was
that Parker himself was not around,
The war had come on, and the brave
boys were following the flag to the
front The nation realized early that
FOOD was az vital as munitions and
had ordered the producers to remain
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