The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-06-20
DEMONSTRATION AGENTS
REPORT FIRM PROGRESS
FARMERS ARE RAISING MORE
FOOD AND FEEDSTUFFS
THAN EVER BEFORE.
PLANT BETTER SEED
Livestock, Poultry, Truck and Gardens
Show Great Increase in Many
Parishes.

close touch with the farmers of the
state, and are in better position
than any one else to know what Louis
lana is doing along agricultural lines.
Their weekly reports this spring and
early summer show that the farmers
have made an excellent start toward
producing large amounts of food and
feed crops. Much attention has been
paid to the quality of seed planted
and to preparation of the land. Great
~ increased acreages have been sown
to grazing and soil renovating crops.
In some parishes the acreage in vel
vet beans have been increased many
fold.
Extracts from the reports Of agents
are given:
Better Poultry In Livingston.
J. o. Bethea, Livingston-Farmers
as rule are increasing their farm
fiocks Some are raising pure bred |
poultry, and in some cases they are
making poultry paying part of their
farm business.
S. w. Vance, Madison and East Car
roll-We will have the largest corn
acreage this year that has ever been
planted in my territory. Land is IN
a better state of cultivation and more
attention has been paid to selecting
seed corn.
Large Acreage Of Food Crops.
r. l. Watson, Tensas and Madison
Everybody is in earnest about plant
ing food and feed crops and indica-
| ticrs are that there will be the larg-
est acreage Of food and feed crops
ever grown in this section of the coun-
try.
| 45,oco Acres in Velvet Beans.
| be about $4,000 acres planted to vel
| vet beans in Bienville Parish this year.
| The banks bought the bean seed and
let the farmers have them at cost.
Cooperative Shipment Of Wool.
| B. NJ. Jackson, Ouachita-I have
| collected 1,4O0 pounds of wool for
cooperative shipment during the COM
ing week, and expect to have some
thing like 1000 pounds by that time.
Corn, cowpeas and Velvet Beans.
w. NJ. Crumpton, Lincoln-One of
our demonstrators pastured during the
winter two head of horses, three cows
and number of hogs on a ten-acre
field planted to corn in six-foot rows
with peas in the middle row and vel
vet beans between the stalks of corn
on the row. He has made $500 from
the sale of peas, has plenty for his
own use, and without any other feed
sold milk and butter from the three
cows during the entire winter.
Velvet Beans Increased 1000 Per Cent.
S. w. Houston, Union - This parish
will plant 5000 acres in velvet beans,
an Increase of more than 1000 per
cent over last year.
| Big Profits in Hogs.
i W. H. Humble, Rapides- One Of my
demonstrators in hog raising and feed
ing recently shipped two cars of hogs
which sold for more than $4,80O This
man plants grazing crops for his hogs,
feeds them every day, and makes big
profits from the business.
Sheep Increase in Beauregard,
J G. C. Chapman, Beauregard-Thc
J lamb crop in this territory is the best
in years. One sheep grower says that
his flock would be increased 70 per
cent or more.
Buy Seed Comparatively.
Paul D. Perkins, Calcasieu - Our
: Police Jury seed supply project has
proved to be life saver Farmers are
. loading up" with the low-priced (com-
paratively) seeds that are offered
through this Office. Thousands Of
bushels of seed corn, velvet beans and
cowpeas have been bought in this way.
Large Food Supply Grown.
T. I. Watson, Madison-Farm gar
dens are contributing an abundance
of fresh potatoes, peas. lettuce, mus
J tard turnips, radishes, onions, berries,
etc. These with plenty of homemade
!, syrup, bacon, lard, chickens, eggs,
: milk and butter, make the farmers in
dependent and able to help supply tho
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