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oast Gazette-- __ tions The Lower Coast azette state PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY butt The Lower Coast Gazette Co. datic poi!"aaaH4ache, Louisiana. pens \%'9 " ._need -:OFFICItA O ) need PLAQUEMINES PA L1I!)O1 EI MR, JJJR ENGLISH TURN DR`ATN b2'-DTS UCT,..them RIVERE AuLx CHENES RAINAGE DISTRICT, PLAQUEMINESPARISH ROAD DISTRICT NO. 1, stat LAKE BORONE BASIN LEVEE DISTRICT, BELLE CHASSE DRAINAGE DISTRICT, pen TERMS:-ONE DOLLAt PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. all tl Entered at the Pointesa-la-Hache Postoffice as we Second Class Mail Matter. vast ---- vast SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1912. Frol ---- are .The Cost of Delivery. the the OUR parish is so largely engaged in the truck rothe garden business and the;resultsfor twoor three cult years have been so disappointing that everyone is led to a close analysis of the business in one's endeavor to put ones finger on the sore spot and to retieve it in some manner if .poisible. Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin; in his well known journal, to I Hoard's Dairyman, discussed the cost of de- sidi livering a quart of milk in Boston. A Boston to 1 firm states that the cost of delivering a quart to no` the consumer was 4.4 cents, to which must be the added 0.37 of a cent for shrinkage. The aver-, of age price paid to the producers for one quart of was 3.9, making a net cost per quart, when de- tai livered to the consumer, of 8.67 cents. Thus me we can see that the cost of delivery is about the equal to the cost of, or rather the net price re- be ceived by the producer. Secretary. Wilson 6f the United States De- leE partment of Agriculture has investigated this its matter and he reports even a higher cost than 50 per cent and states that the producer would hi frequently get but 40 cents out of that quantity in that would cost the consumer $1.00, the inter- m vening money being 'consumnied by the middle th men who are necessarily engaged in the work tl of distribution. It is impossible to do this work without con- sE siderable expense. The banana men seem to irt have solved the question of distribution for tl themselves, but they have a fruitwhich stands t packing and which, gathered green, ripens gradually and developes its fine flavor in this f process of ripening. With garden truck gener- n Sally these good results are not had and hence a refrigerator cars have become necessary and q these largely increase the cost of reaching the consumer. s We- have no doubt but that year by year we. c shall learn better and better how to solve this t problem of distribution, but at present it is cer- I tainly the one unsolved problem of the truck gardening industry. Don't Burn the Trash, but Turn it } Ur:tider. 1JNDEl~the above cation a correspondent of. S th ~rgres~y Fap~e wrd~to~hth~~ou atiunl, -~ hopes that many other good Tennessee farmers will cease this fogy way of doing business and make one step forward toward scientific farm ing. He advises that instead of burning stalks, vines, crab grass, etc., to turn the growth un dec arid thus get a flneslot of humus, as well as so~rie nitrogei, :the latter costing 20 cents a ;pdind ordinarily. , · n reading this twe bhought of some of the disicussions. of the Louisiana Sugar Planter's i ;Association, . in which every year the careful ; conservation of the trash and turning it under was one of the evidences of conservatism; that later on, influenced by the attack of the carne borers our planters, yielding to the exigiencies of the case burned the trash in order to kill the ;.. . borersi and later on again, in discussing the con servation of nitrogen, our scientists of the As sociation are again advocating turning the trash under, in order to secure its contained nitrogen. All these matters are moot points in agricul. ture and we must be guided by local conditions and ,practical experience. Summer fallowing was once quite the fashion but has been aban doned in the Mississippi Valley generally so far as we know and yet is still practiced on the Pacific coast. Plowing up lands in the summer time and subjecting them to the hot sun is pre sum d to be wasteful insofar as the nitrogen of the soil is concerned. On the other hand, it may ' ring the lands into better physicial condition b tid the final results might confuse the advo ~ cates as to which of the ways was the best for · the conservation of the nitrogen, the old way or 1 the new? Trash burning or non-trash burning? S iSunmer fallowlng or non-summer fallowing? These things must be considered a good deal-s Sare the diseases of otr humanity. We must be ~ guided by the exigencies of the case and do the best we canj when all the circumstances are con Sdeedcarefully. National Highways. Thu popularity of good roads in the United states is constantly increasing and while there A' ay be delays here and there in their construe the good roads will Anally surely come. A opaganda is nowi in operation in Washing ato to endeaoi r to facilitate national highways the United States. Fraee is one of tk Eoe IStates havins t rt clau? sational rways laid out inlong lines -and got in - condition at the nationalrex From eenational high ys te varioua provinces jObranch highwayi into their own localities sthe entire cont becoiea coveredwi th 4asth sat o -xa and the ,leadershi i~the : Lone S~ti ~ri(~1~t~iar tt.i tln in aricl *n4 in po~~~.ti oldjsify ighepela tions of the development of good roads in that. some e: state. They need good roads just as. we do, saving but they have far less rainfall and have gener- in requ ally higher lands, these securing a firmer:fo .in- lownes dation for their roads and that at a smaller ex- bor ma pense. We in Louisiana need the roadways and ary an need them badly. Our people generally are conditi convied of that fact and stand ready to tax scienti ithemselves nid to eooperate-heartily with the are uti state and national governiment in the- develop- ing ti plent of any large roadway scheme. Our own as to i state government at the present time is doing a give all that it can to facilitate road construction and he we believe that a very few years will develop a sia is vast improvement in Louisiana in this respect. ply o1 From a sugar planter's point of view good roads There are imperative. Many a crop has been lost in machi the fields because of the inability to transport work Sthe cane to the factory over the impassable exten roads and with better roads Louisiana's agi- Russi culture will increase by leaps and bounds. mense L·IIL-~Japai LaGrippe or Influenza. pone there THIS disease, which in its first onset -seems mane to be so trifling in its character, is far more in- chine sidious than the average sufferer with it is apt ese i to think. It has prevailed in the United States mach Snow for about twenty-five years and thus far well e there seems but little abatement in the severity macl of its attacks, or in the widely spread character W, t of the disease. It seems' so singularly con-- wee.c tagious as to be as bad in that one respect as the'] Smeasles, whooping cough or even small pox, al- nece it though not nearly so dangerous, if proper care econ - be taken. On the other hand, the seeming in- we difference of the people to the attacks of gnrippe that e- leads in many cases to pneumonia and to death com is itself. who i A few years back the writer was sitting in vera Id his office and a visitor came in who was cough- rice ty ing and sneezing moderately and the writer re- vesi r- marked to the visitor that he seemed to have sha] lie the grippe and that perhaps he would infect into rk those around him. A few days later the writer ecoi had a moderate attack of the grippe which ing on- seemed to be traceable directly to the presence ly' to in the room of that other person suffering with end Eor the disease and sneezing and coughing more or con ids less. mo ins The numerous rains this winter have so af- fiel his fected the country roads as to make them al- ing er- most impassable and they have led to exposure any ice and in many cases to ordinary colds, from which eat nd quick recoveries are expected. These are the the people that the grippe seizes with its greatest tt severity and those affected should be extremely in we, careful as to any further exposure, as it seems ,his to be a fact that more deaths are attributable th !er- to the grippe than the communitY generally has of uck any idea of. bu We are told that the disease is an epidemic se influenza and has at times spread all over Eu- st it rope and then disappeared for considerable per iods of time. Its persistence with us during ie the last twenty or twenty-five years seems to be tr aof nal exceptior.allY long epidemic and its: entire · neS~"' e t~iVW~t-: batiefselseis so pecu liar in its character and so ill understood that a and we can scarce know what to do about it or to expect from it, other than that those affected a Lks, should put themselves under medical control at un- once if they desire. to be prudent. The impres- tl i a sion' that these onrets of a slight cough, watery g Lts a eyes and running nose are but the symptoms of an ordinary cold is very deceptive and it is well o the enough to recognize the fact that when one has 0 er's the grippe' the condition is a serious one and reful one that may very possibly end in pneumonia b nder and death. The advent of warmer and drier that weather will be welcomed as giving more or less cane relief, although this depressing disease has nies beei prevailing during recent years to some ex ~the tent throughout th eentire year. As- The Inspiration of the' Country. enash FROM the city point of view life in the coun ricul- tz'y quickly becomes monotonous. On the other tions hand, from the country point of view lifei"n the wing country is so full of work from sunrise to sunset iban- that there is not any time for monotony and the 0 far days pass as rapidly as anywhere else and ther the keenest interest is excited in those engaged in nmer the' work of ordinarf life, 1because of the fre pre- quent interferences caused by 'the weather and,' 'en of on the other hand, by the study of the growth may that is everywhere visible' and is generally in ition spiring. advo- We have often thought that there is POplace t for' 'on earth more beautiful from an artistic point or-I of .vie than is the Lower Coast dunnrg the nung? early summer months, when the cane fields be iung? gin to wave their shining green leaves, whenr , thye rice crops show their pale peagreen .~olor' st be and the corn crops begini to change from their' Lo the deep green to the browner color of' their tassesi' con- and the orange orchards are rapidly developinig their golden apples for the autumnal harvest. - To an intelligent cultivator all these processl. es of plant life become a matter of earnest study and modern agriculture and horticulture SJited are based upon our efforts to secure larger crops there and better ones with a given outlay of labor stru c- and fertilizers. One's hopes are excited and o ome. we may say one's ardor is kindled by obsering sinag. - the crops from day to day and noting their cot hwaysl stant growth fronmplanting to inaturity. )f ptk . We, however, on the Lower Coast, are not 1Mnal! alone in all this, as now practically eiverywhere lins a-on earth whete organized governent 'exists I Fom earnest agricultural work is going on under the i ieCi5 auspices of the government aiid the 'ppliati shities of all scientific research thus f had d~itl abile is made to the growing c i nt United States we hadvetheputation ledi asaie he world in enterplrsing agiuitU d r er Sery largely upo romechanical labosavin grtll devices. There b countites, howeverchias cet--China, J~avthec Brts atIde nt< some extent Japan,. where labor saving devices are not so much} in request as here, the extreme lowness of the, cost of human-la bor making it as cheap as ordin ary animal labor. Where these i conditions eiist, the result of scientific research in plant life s are utilized in the way of direct iring the work. of the laborers so as to produclarger results from a given quantity of labor. The Black Sea country in Rus sia is the great source and sup aply of wheat for all Europe. There we find that American Smachines adapted to agricultural a Swork are utilized to a very great - Sextent, notwithstanding that the Y Russian landlords control an im mense.supply df cheap labor. In Japan the wages of labor are re ported to be gradually rising and there American ingenuity in the Smanufacture of agricultural ma ma chinery is utilized by the Japan ese who will import American machines and imitate them so i' well as to be able to produce the ' machines themselves. , We seem tobe doing all that > we. can in the way of progress on a the' Lower Coast, butit would be Not necessary for us' to effect some plyinj re economies in the way of labor as (colol nwe haven't the supply of labor tatior pe that we formerly had and will be th compelled .to6 use machinery wherever possible. Years ago a La very 'considerable part of the ,-rice crop was cut by grain har- I Ve- vesting machines. The peculiar f ,ve shape and fall of our rice fields ect interfere more or less with the. ter economical use of these harvest ich ing machines., but We must sure ie ly attempt to use them in . the ith end and this can be done with or comparative facility at least by1 modifying the shape of -our af- fields in such way that harvest al- ing outfits can be "employed here ure and there without compelling iich each proprietor to own one. The 'g the grain harvest of the western It test states is accipplished very much iely ly in this way.. ems 'The public works going on in able the great cities, the extensions has of .the railway systems, the building of Wharves, the great Ssewerage systems end the -con Eu- strtuction of tany buildings are per- gradually carrying the able bod rng ied colored pl$e from the coun 'n try to the t4 While in the end tre they do no better, for themselyes cu- well, these pople are attracted that' more or less lBy city life and we to are suffering'Tihthe iountry from ated a lack. of labor., Thousands of at laborers. could be emlployed in pres- the Parish of Placuemines to ery great advantage, but they don't n of seem'to be agvaidable and many well 'of those who have grown up here adhas are now resident in New Orleans. and We need more laborers or more noia labor saving machines. drier _ _ _ _ _ _ has :!For Sale. ie ex- Choice SBed Rie. Apply to CHAS. BALLAY, Home Place, La. Bl## RIC gL A Five Hundred Acres co :RII! .-LnUL Lau of -Fir~st·Class -Rice coun- Land on Belair and other FO RRENT r a.nny Plantations, I nthe in Quantis t Suit. ;unset JOHN DYMON1G, BELAIR P.O. LA:. S1 the·: edinI e re- Cypress and I " ly Yellow ine place Lumber when og adDesd o ~lor in, shngles, nLathes, sadis:~l e8`nest r crps 79 Wbitney Bank Bilg., labor New Orleans, Louisipna ervng . ent for i oon- Qreat Southern Lumber Company, the here 'of Bogalusa, La., 'exiss mahufacturilig excel islent longleaf lum er the ber; agpitof :: lcation ~ ·,' - ~ : itdint' of (01i4mette, La.. Based mnacU$turing (y savig , l e, shingles 'it SSTORY of ten girls and one man at a sum mer resort, in the Sdays of universal suffrage iWomen's Candidate BY BYRON WILLIAMS Lt I W a would you have done? 1- Held prisoner by a bevy .n of determined young ladies, His Honor, tho tMayor, is forced to be a great diplomat-also a e bold Lochinvar in love. n- The cleverest serial "Uncle in By" has eveorwitten. Watch SO for the firsat installmcnt. hel'i on Notice. *0 Notice is hereby given that I agm "p 310 plying for a permit to run a barroom as (colored) at upper line of Fanny plan e tation, W dYMOND . Launch Standa'rd EUG. DE ARMAS. M. 0.. BU RAS and M. G. BURAS, Own* ers; Eng oe Armas, Mas ters: J. C. aE ARMAS, Clerk Leaving Wednesdays and Sat urdays at 6 o'clock a. in. Wed nesdays for Port Eads. Satur days for Venice. Returning Thursdays and Sundayst Freight received Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays foot of Ursulifle Street. =WANTED 0I s Address Warren Buckley, Treesi. xe Lt iilan. rriSOO0 Lines ORLEANSr HOUSTON -and BEAU MONT The Night Train. ' LeavesTerminal Station 11:45 P M. LEO UJPFY Successor to APPEL & 0iFFY. Solicits your ship menrts of Louisiana Oranges, Mandarins, Orape Fruit and veg etables. NEW DOR ANS, IAm.. 215 .OYDRAS STREET. 6. F1"rVF 4% OUl. Best line of gents furnishing goods, dry goods, gro ceries, flour, feed, hardware, etc. in the parish, come and give us a trial. Our Brandenburg linens are the latest thing in dress goods. Also just received a fine line of flanneletts, ginghams, fine laces and embroid eries. The best of service guaranteed at all times Ths eourthouse tor t WM. T. HARDIbL, M M.' HARDIE, JO. F. SCHUERMANN President. Vice-President See. & Treas. WiliasRichardso ., Li mited I nniporters and Jobbers of Dry Goods, Notions, and Men's Furnishing Goods. 209=212123L &=215 Magazine Street. 512 Common Street. 515 Gravier Street. New Orleans, :d ::: " Lousianla -- - - s -- N ' l$''T i WOODWAkPR , W!GNT CO. LTD Phone Main 462 The Open Day and Night House. Biggest General Supply House in the South. Everything in Hardware, - Ship Chandlery, Mill Supplies and Groceries. Full and Complete Line of Game Traps, Paints, Loaded Shells, Cutlery and Stoves. Motor Boat Specialties, Gas and Gasoline Engines, Batteries, etc. Traveling Representative :-: :- - :° Z~"F W. L. PTE3$ CHARB N! CA RBON! Halve your Animals Vaccinated NOW and use only Pasteurs Vaccine Oermine I..L LYONS COMPANY, LTD. CHARLE'S SBAVYING PALOR 104 ROYAL STREET Between Canal and Customhouse, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. CHARLES H. WICHTERICH, Proprietor. Marxwell & Son Crockery Glassware, j Cutleryl Etc. 108 10MliMagnav St elNE ORLEANSL " 3 H. P. ThrVall -- - --otp. = (Complete With Salt Water Fittings.) A Complete line of Ycht Sup plies, Batteries aid Spark Plugs. ARTHUR DUViI 128 Ohartres St.µO .New Orleans, Louisiana. Schwartz Carts! I: q Are made right and of best material. A full line of . Carriages and Buick Auto mobiles. Write for Cata Slog and Prices :-: . y: JOSEPH SCHWARTZ CO., LIMITED New Orleans, Louisiana. ..2 Wanted! Highest Prices Paid For Old Time Furniture, Jew elry and Bric a" Brac. Address Miss S. Dia mend, Diamond, La. Furniture Woods Bottling Co, Itd Corner Montigut and Royal Streets. Manufacturers of all highest grade mineral wvaters and carbonated drinks. All orders given prompt at tention. Country orders a specialty. Phone Hemlock 291 1 AC··ý"4~OI DAIMERON-PIERSON CO., LTD. Manufgcturing Statloners and Office Outfitters, Blank Book "Makers, Printers, Lithographers, Desks & Chairs, Filing Cabinets and Bookcases. - Phone Main 329. NH EW ORLEANS. The Launch Protector Will leave New Orleans every . Tuesday and Friday morniting at 7:00 for all landings as far as Venice - - - - - - - - - j- - - i i 1 Jewel iOafel Open day and night. We serve theibest wines, liquors and oysters : : : : :::: 108 ROYAL STREET Hebert Ragal -. H. Majeau Bra lManager. - 9rprietor. Jahucke, Building Materials, Sand, Shells, Gravel, Cement X14 Howard Ave. Phone Main 455. New Orleans. Westfeldt Brothers 528 (iravier Street INew Orleans, La. Direct Importers of SeedRice