The St. Mary banner., 1921-09-10
ST. NARY PARISH.
Thirty Years Or More Ahead
Of the Rest Of the State.

.I.on Caffery, the Police Jury Of
Il Mary parish passed the stock
,rdina1ce that the farmers CT the
Sta,e are now demanding at the
,ands OF the legislature.
We ,iscerely hope their de-
nands are granted. st Mary has
nad the benefits of this law for q
Generation and il is only the older
'i,izau that remembers the con-
1i,ions before 1890. when the
.w was passed. No one thicg
,as contributed so much to
ne financial, economic and social
Welfare of our parish as this ordi-
,arce Thousands of miles Of
tences and gates have disappear
d or which there is no further
Expense Of repair and cleaning
aundre Of good townspeople
nd farmers, are relieved OF tn,
worry. harassment, ard damage
lone by roaming ence-breaking
,attle. All the vexing unneigh-
,orIy di-putes arising from cattle
iamage are no longer known
Farmers, large and small, I've
happily together, each fencing his
WI cattle, their crops ,ing in
me continuanca f1tld with never q
ivi-ion fence.
Our roads are clean, ard unob-
truc'ed by sleeping COWS, or
traying stock Travel on foot,
oy horse, or car is cafe by righ
and day. The road dtches are no
ong-r uampIed and the drainage
,logged Following the passage
f this law came other changes
ust as important as the saving
N the yearly expense bills of far
ners and townspeople.
In the towns, gardens sprung up
shere no gardens had teen before
'lowtrs bloomed where bare
tenc,s aud vacant speces stood
before. l. ushy fence lines gave
way to clean cane rows, and
eighbors crops were divisi5le
My by tn Sir owner.
This ordinance affected not only
crops, but cattle as we'll. The
GRUB cow, steer, or hog, was soon
found 10 be unworthy OF it's keep
md it was replaced by good, vel
bred animals, so that today st.
larry parish has higher average
grade of live stock than any par
sh 10 the State. The stock law
las largely made this possible
The poor family that once had
hree scrub milk cows on open
ange to get two gallons of poor
mix, now fences one COW or ties
,er on a rope, to produce the same
amount of good milk.
Nor is the betterment to crops
md live stock the end of the good
his law has done It has improv-
ID, and humanized the citizenship
# the parish as we'll A man who
runs his cat'l, on the property OF
1thers because it happens to be
open, is to a large extent a poach.
r and parasite. Long practice
q this habit leads him to bad
deas of his rights, where he has
lone, leads to fence cutting, gate
opening, and other lawl ness
With the passage of this law, this
:ype of citizen passed on, st.
Mary was no longer his happy
hunting ground.
The State ia perturbed today
over the cradle alton of the tick.
The tick must 60. Vast sums
nave been spent and the tick is
still here, save only in those parts
IF the State where cattle are un.
Ter fence, or have been. A stock
aw makes the tick fight win
uing one, without the stock law
he tick fight is losing game and
waste of money.
A stock law will start an epoch
If progress throughout the State,
just as it has done in St Mary
In st. Mary it mas greatly de.
creased the expense of farming
improved the grade OF live stock,
made the roads safe aud clean to
ravel, made gardens and flowers
grow, where none grew before,
made it possible to rid the parish
If ticks. made the poacher ard
parasite cattle owner move op,
and it has had humanizing effect
IN the rest of US 1t would be q
nard search to tin6 one citizen Of
st. Mary who would 60 back to
The old order of things that existed
before the stock law.
What it has done for St. Mary
It will do for the State.
We sincerely hope and trust the
legislature will pass the stock law.
Nothing but good can come of it.
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