St. Tammany farmer., 1921-08-13
Wilkinson, Wilson, Hull,
Friedlander and Webb
Address Meeting.
ORGANIZATION :@".
WILL FOLLOW
Judge Burns Presides and
Urges Action in Mark
eting Products.

Tie meeting OF farmers ..nu
business men ielu AT Llc COURT
house: IN to.InSton, Ncunesuay,
AususL 10, liIdl, s.tti ah Interest
III agricultural development of
the PARISH not elaaaieu ~ any
ll1cetlnS ilelu mere. Ihere were
100 present and 81 oi the,c
were farmers. Ine meeting
was presided over Dy Judge Il.
Nj. Isurls, Who stated tnat H.,
most important uDJect wa, the
marketing OF prOuucts r.lseu ny
the farmer.
The speakers were Dr. l.. G.. VIII
kiuson, ueau or s,aLe larn Extension
M. l.. null, Inspector OF potatoes, U
D. department ul agriculture, fiOl
harry ~. wilson, commissioners VI
agriculture and lmmiBraLion' Pau
Frlenulander, expert i'll Irult grow
ing; Mr.. 81. IS. WeDD, business man
OF COVlngtOn.
Organization and Farm Demonstrss-
ton.
DR., Wilkinson sad that the crop
ARRANGEMENT OF every 1arm Should III
cIude IoOd Tor the family ana lo1
stock. surplus snouId be shipped.
The farmer could not stand SUCCESS
lully alone. tie was IKE one strand
in a rope, individually with but littie
strength, but bound together hau
great power OF resistance. tie spoke
OF the potato crop as one or largt
promise and desc.upment ana eu-
ylseu the planting OF the Porto Rlcall
yalu as the DeSL IOr marketing, do
lney were ready to ship in July or
Inc lirst part oi August.
Or. Wilkinson said that land had
to have lood 10 prouuce lie kne"
OF nothing better 10 bui.d up the
SO i Than the velvet bean and the soy
Dean tie sa d the soy bean coull
be drilled III with the corn and WOulC
pl.duce Two tons OF forage per acre
ueslues the beans. tie was surprl5-
Gu to md but two farms in the par
lsh that had planted these. Ihev
made line dairy Iced. Cowpeas ass
good. Nothing was more important
to the farmer than having a farm
demonstrator who could give advise
as the growing of crops and the care
OF stock He stated that printed
blanks were being prepared for char
ters that could be niled out by the
farmers and that these would soon
be ready and could be used by the
parish farmers organization which
he hoped would be formed In this
parish Such an organization was
the only hope for successful crop
handling and marketing.
Potato Storage.
Mr., Hull sad that the potato prob
lem could be solved i'll storage. Ihat
the u. S. Government furnished plans
for a potato house that was being
used successfully in other parishes
That from 1916 to 1920 the growing,
OF sweet LolatOes had increased on.
hundred per cent, and that. the hlgh
est prices were obtained Wnen there
were storage faclll,ies. That the,
could oe kept from six TO eight
months. tInat in California, WASH
ilgtOn and Oregon two thousand oi
more carloads were sold than IN las
year. Hammond would double Aea
ten thousand bushel storage capaci-
ty this year by building another
potato house, and would put III q
canning Iaclury. He SAID that plue
prints IOr these houses would be fur-
nished by the u. ). Government tree.
The prune growers OF California
made uye year contracts Tor then
crODS. IL the farmers did not "ofh
comparatively they might just as wei.
stay out or the game. before the
fruit growers OF California organized
they got cents per pound. mo"
they get IL cents.
Mr.. Hull said that pages OF ad-
" rtisements Of the sweet potato
would appear in the Chicago papers.
That $4,000 would be expended III
advertising. "... ....-.-.....
Grapes and Oranges.
Mr.. PAU frledlander spoke or the
adaptability Of the grape ana sat
suma orange to st. Tammany PARISH.
He said that he had Travelled i'll Can
fornia, Florida and South America,
but he had found no section Deltet
adapted to the Satsuma. lie also
spoke of the wonderful growth OF TIT
st. James grape and exhibited PIC
ture of a VINE growing on the slue
OF MIR. Frank Dutsch's residence al
Waldheim Also exhibited cuttllls
from the vine with fruit attached,
cutting from a heavily ladened tree
that had borne heavy crops OF sat
sumas for years, and pnoto OF a
three-year-old Satauma with punch
OF oranges on it. He said Mr.. Alfred
Heath had some OF the finest sat
suma orange trees he had seen. The
st. James grape vine on Mr.. Dutsch :
place would yield a thousand pounds
of grapes. There was a good de-
mand for all the grape juice that
could be made, at a profitable prlce-
He believed in cooperation ana OF
ganization of farmers. Mr.. Fried
lander said Mr. F. p. Marsolan had
purchased the Fabacher place anu
would plant it in Satsumas.
Must Spend Money and Advertise.
Commissioner Wilson said it took
money to do things. II he had the
making of farm organization he
would request that every membes
nut IN S1OO for a fund to do bust