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Fords on TRADE MARK $625 f. o. b. Detroit POWER FARMING DEMONSTRATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 at 2:30 p. m. on JOSEPH SCHNYDER'S FARM, four miles north of Covington on the Lee Road. We are going to show you how much the Ford son will plow, how well it will plow, what the fuel consumption per acre will be---how well it handles every kind of belt work. Instead of talking bout the Fordson we prefer to let you see with your own eyes just what the Fordson can do. L. F. WEHRLI Phone 5 Covington All welcome to attend this Demonstration A PARISH-WIDE DRAINAGE PLAX, SUPERIOR TO OTHER SYSTEMS. (Continued from page 1) of corporation and act through boards of officers or drainage com missioners. 2. They can borrow money and issue bonds in the name of the drain age district. 3. Are financially responsible. 4. They possess the machinery for making an equitable distribution of costs in proportion to benefits con ferred. 5. They are authorized to levy taxes against each piece of land to the extent of benefits conferred, and to use the state machinery for col lecting such taxes. 6. They have the power of emi nent domain, which gives them the right to condemn property needed for carrying out the purposes of the district. 7. They possess the power to con struct such improvements as are nec essary to accomplish the reclamation of the lands in the district. The foregoing statement by Drain age Expert Yohe, which shows clear ly the many great advantages of pub licly organized drainage over any private project, is yet not sufficient to include the additional benefits given by the Louisiana drainage law. H-ere before any project can be be gun the State Engineers thoroughly investigate the situation and make very complete reports advising whether the proposed project is feasible, what it will cost, and what advantages may be derived from draining each tract of land, and final ly with full information the voters determine whether the project shall ,be carried through and bonds be issued. There is under the Louisi ana law no possibility of deception or misunderstanding to intelligent people concerning any publicly or ganized drainage system. No other public work or enterprise is so well safe-guarded by the laws as is drain age in Louisiana. It is not attempted in these articles to indicate just what kind of drain age is needed in this parish. Only 6 drainage engineer's survey can do that. Not even the most competent drainage engineer's opinion is worth much: Nothing can take the place of an accurate and detailed survey. What is sought is to arouse such in terest among the landowners and farmers of this parish that they will regard it sufficiently advantageous t. them to have a complete survey made by the State Engineers so as to learn the exact needs of each tract of land and have the expert recommendations of drainage en gineers concerning feasible projects to be started. The proper procedure is for the Police Jury to establish Drainage Districts (the plan of 25 districts was well thought out and will probably be satisfactory when it is given adequate consideration, and it can easily be changed at any time to suit conditions), then Drainage Commissioners should be appointed, and the latter can organize to have the .surveys and estimates and rec ommendations made by the State Engineers. When the State En gineers have made public reports, then we will have exact information as to what drainage projects are ad vantageous and feasible at this time. If any group of private owners think they can do the construction work at less cost than it will be done by public agencies, the law allows them the privilege of doing their own work. But even so, it is to their advantage to join in a parish wide drainage plan, so that a coli plete system may be laid out at the beginning; for such a plan will avoid duplications and over.; ppi..:. of projects. Every project will the. be constructed in accordance witl the general public plan. Those wtii have already completed drainage sys tems under the parish-wide plan will not be disturbed or put to extra e- pense and contributions for the con struction of later projects. Further more, if a considerable amount of drainage construction can be done at one time, the cost should be less pro rata, as a large project can be more economically built than a small one. Another point in favor of a parish-wide plan instead of separat ed or individual projects is the stimu lus which will be given to general development. The more extensive the -development in this parish, the more attractive will be the induce ment'to settlers. A cultivated spot in a wilderness, although it may be exceedingly 'fertile and excellently improved, is not on a parity with a Spoorer farm which is surrounded foi miles on every side by a well-settled farming community. There is now private interest in this parish, how ever great, which can afford to go ii alone in land improvement. The great advantage of a parish-wid" drainage plan largely rests in the impetus it will give to land develop ment, for an engineering survey will provide exact information concern ing the advantages of drainage, sc that every land owner can see con cretely in his own land opportunity to increase his wealth by drainage improvement. If his land is noi Sfarming land,- but fit only for re forestration, although he will nol want drainage and the drainage sur vey will determine that he should not have drainage and his lands wil Snot be included in a drainage pro ject, that conclusion will have beer a benefit to him, for he will know Sjust where he stands, and thence forth when taxes are increased or farm lands he will not have to beaj an extra, burden of taxes, for th( public determination will place hit lands in a different class of less valu able and less. productive land that farms. The owner of lands fit onlh for reforestration will obtain th; further advantage from genearl farl: development that he will be protect ed from the devastations incident t( the open range as he cannot hope t( ;c until this country is fairly estab lished in agriculture, for reforestra tion is a forlorn hope so long as the prairie fire and the piney-woods root. er are unchecked. Drainage is nec -sary to estabish agriculture in thi" tnrish, and until this is an agricul tnral parish there is little chance foi any kind of development here. Thih reneral need for farm development constitutes a public interest, so thai it necessarily follows that every kind of private interest here can be~i serve itself by promoting the public achievement of a parish-wide drain age, plan. POLICE JURY. (Continued front last week) Follow'ng is the list of bill .rd-ir. ed paid by the Finance Committee. Road Fund. J. B. Porter ......'....... 4 .2 J. B. Howze, Jr., ......... 52.50 C. M. Brock ............ 43.5 '. E. Howze .............X.7.6.00 Zack Taylor ............. 600 A. A. Parker .............. 7.25 H. J. Smith's Sons ........ 5.5 Smith Hardware Co. ...... 58.83 Slidell Garage Co. ....... . 20.97 Mel Craddock ............ 3.95 L. Bias ................. 72.00 H. Fields ............... 44.U0 Standard Oil Co. ......... 18.19 r. C. Craddock ........... 88.00 l. B. Anderson .......... 63.00 J. D. Carpenter ........ . . 2.00 Leon Singletary ......... 3.00 Neuhauser Bros. .......... 5.5) H. R. Barker ............. 86.44 J. J. Scheck ............. .. 3.00 Willie Cook ............ . 3.00 I. J. Scheck .. .. ......... 5.25 Paul M. Dutruch ......... 44.64 V. T. Scheck ............. . 3.75 3lidell Garage Co. ........ 19.33 Dave Ezell .............. 22.50 Robt. Sharp . .. ....... . 22.5 1 B. M. Bryant ...... ...... . 10.50 Preston Booth ..... ...... 9.75 W. H. Mathews .......... 9. 5 Willie Thompson ......... 8.2; John Dutruch ............ 4 4.50 Dave Thompson .......... 3.75 I. E. Blackwell ........... . 10.50 Cavey Blackwell ......... 10.5 , Greely Blackwell ......... 10.53 Verne Blackwell .......... 10.50 Slid'ell Garage Co. ........ 30.80 A. D. Crawford Lbr. Co . .. 26.93 klexiusx Bros. .......... .75 Good Roads Commission ... 28.18 Geo. Blow ............... 9.00 John Cannon ............ 42.03 Albert Page .............. 5.66 Hy. Warner ........ .... 11.4') Bud Nelson ............. . 7.50 Andrew Warner .......... 67.50 Adolph Frederick, Jr.,... 63.50 Robt. Badon .............. 9.94 L. F. Wehrli............. 63.35 Liberty Garage ............ 27.35 August Vergez ............. 39.53 T. N. Galloway ........... 20.00 M. G. Fussell ............. 9.00 Allen Galloway ........... 6.00 Nathan Fitzgerald ........ 4.50 Gus Miller .............. 12.0') Clarance Miller ........... 12.00 Eugene Esquinance ....... 12.00 E. J. Giutean ............. 19.03 James N. Cornet .......... 98.00 Robt. Glockner ........... 100.0 - Richard' .h . .0...-.1.03 idney Smith .... . .. ... 100.00 dd. Mickenheim ...... 8.00 rosie Smith . ... . ...... 12.00 ['. Verrett ............... 29.00 obt. -Smith ............. 16.09 3. Conrad ............... 8.00 I. A. Verrett ............ 18.00 klex. Smith ............. 306.00 leo. Frosch ............. 11.83 ?oitevent & Favre ........ 3.72 :has. F. Dutsch ........... 2.00 ?. A. Price .............. 4.25 r. L. Cooper .............. 3.50 Villie Pierce ......... . . 3.53 F. L. Baham ............ 4.50 Talter Meyers ...... ..... 16.50 Wm. Wager ............. 24.00 idam Wager ............ 12.75 intone Wager ........... 28.50 Emory Edwards .......... 14.25 Nalter Edwards .......... 25.5) i. Stanga ............... 1.50 Richard Fuhrmann ....... 14.25 Rott. Holmes ............ 1.50 General Fund P. G. Spring ............ 9.00 St. Tammany Farmer ...... 4-9.59 3. M. Craddock ........... 14.50 Berlin Bryant ............ 2.00 Dr. Fred'Jones ........... 25.00 H. D. Bulloch, M. D., ..... 50.00 Dr. F. R. Singleton ....... 25.00 Bulloch's Drug Store ...... 14.07. W. H. Kent-el ............ 45.00 3t. Tammany Ice & Mfg. Co. 16.44 John Cannon ............ 1.50 J. M. Morgan ............ 2.00 W. E. Blossman ......... 9.50 Walter Galatas, sheriff .... 153.36 Mrs. L. Miles ............ 117.25 J. B. Grantham .......... 10.00 Dr. R. B. Paine ........... 3.25 Paul Verger .............. 1.25 Dr. A. G. Maylie ......... 4.75 Vivian Bennett ........... .75 Jean Dubarry ............ 25 Eva Pennington ......... 6.50 T. N. Galloway ........... 2.00 Norvil Bush ............. 2.50 Mrs. J. G. Wilson ........ 2.75 Lewis L. Mcrgan ......... 17.50 H. T. Fauntleroy ........ 10.00 J. B HOWZE, President. F. J. MARTINDALE, Secretary. CROSS RAILROAD ON SECOND GEAR Some Good Hints for Driver to Follow When Engine Stalls as Train Approaches. OPEN THROTTLE GRADUALLY If Accelerator Pedal Is Pressed Too Quickly Engine Sometimes Stalls -Operator Should Keep His Presence of Mind. It is well to give the motorist a few words of advice on a subject usually disregarded-that of crossing railroads, writes William H. Stewart, Jr., in an exchange. The all too usual method of- cross ing- tracks Is to drive on high gear, throttled down. This requires a cer-, tain amount of gas, and if the amount is reduced too much the engine will stall. By shifting into second speed' all such danger is overcome. Then: the engine is turning faster and it is not so easy to stall. Furthermore, the car may be driven across the tracks at approximately the sameI speed. The impression prevails that the car may be speeded up more readily in high gear in the event of a train approaching, but the distance i* short and. a full throttle opening on second speed will send the car for-, ward with greater certainty. Why an Engine Stalls. This brings up a matter qo---tl . portance, that of opening the throttli too suddenly. If the accelerator pedal( Is pressed too quickly the engine some times stalls. This is because the air valve yields readily to the increased: suction, giving a sudden rush of air before the spray nozzle can respond with enough gasoline. Whether the throttle is opened by hand or foot the driver should open it gradually enough to give the engine time to re spond. No matter how great the dan ger may be, the throttle must be opened gradually. This does not will not cause the engine to choke be fore accelerating. Dangerous Experience. Stalling the engine with a train ap proaching at high speed is a dangerous experience, to say the least. There is no time to start the engine, but the operator who keeps his presence of mind will use the starter to pull out of danger. By shifting into low speed and pressing the starter pedal the car Is made to move forward slowly. Keeping this fact in mind, a driver may save his own life and the lives of those with him. AlITO ioIMI.I After a storage battery is fifteen months old the dealer considers It worthless. On rare occasions it happens that a wire breaks inside its insulation, giv ing no exterior sign of the trouble. In Philadelphia. to enable motorists to get clearer signals, spotlights are played on traffic policemen at night. Every time a wheel Is removed the bearing cup is, removed with it, and consequently the bearing must be ad justed properly when the Wheel is re placed. Motor mechan~cs is now taught to young women students of Wellesley college, in Massachusetts. The course is conducted by Prof. Lucy Wilson of the physics department and 30 pupils form the class. The $8,141,500 thus far received In registration 'fees. under the automo -bile ta' in ::'w virk state, for tlhe first! tiri -? 1i:tlis i !21. |i:mls !Kn''I gr'etl' h ' t'i ti ltl ..i'tr l e en tire i yert If . RE o LLroow SEAL LYE EXTRA Always use RED SAEL LYE HIGH TEST MI . CAL M according to directions. A full printed set is furnish 7 :ed with every can. A REMARKABLE PRODUCT THAT SAVES WOMEN TIME, MONEY AND WORK A Use Red Seal Lye according to directions and you've got the greatest cleaning power on earth. Lye is the :I basis for all soaps. Red Seal Lyenot only cleans, but disinfects and purifies at the same time, making your home more healthful. You can make your own soap by using Red Seal Lye It will save you money. A cleansing solution made with Red Seal Lye is wonderful for quickly washing and cleaning everything about the house. A little Red Seal Lye sifted into the sink cleans odt the pipes and pre vents them from becoming stopped up. Red Seal Lye is the finest quality lye that can be made, and is aM pare granulated lye, without any for eign ingredients added. You will always get the biggest value for your money if you ask your storekeeper for, and be sure to get, the old reliable Red Seal Lye. P.C. TOMSON & COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. " ^__________ _ _ »- - ---- . . . . . . . n +n "i I+T * '''^i. EXPERIMENTS THROW LIGHT ON POTATO GROWTH (Continued from page 1) Experiments Conducted. These are a few among the many questions which have been asked of growth and yield of one of America's largest and most distinctive crops, and which former observers have been able to answer only incomplete ly. The Bureau of Plant Industry, United State Department of Agricul ture, has conducted a series of ex periments in potato growth, the re sults of which are published in De partment Bulletin 985, Development of Tubers in the Potato, which has just been issued. The information contained is of interest not only to the plant physiologist but also to the practical grower, as a knowledge of the relation of the setting and sub sequent development of tubers of the potato may, to. a certain extent, be put to practical use. Tuber formation, it was found, be gins in general at about the end of the period of flower bud develop ment, alhough this is not in all cases an exact criterion. Experiments showed that the number, as well as theusize, of potatoes in a hill in creased for several weeks after the first.,potatoes were large enough to dig. A small increase in the weight of tubers was found to occur evea after the vines had been killed by frost. The maximum rate of growth of the tubers was found to occur about the last of August or first of September, Which was approximately 80 days after planting. An interesting development of the, experiments was that the- number and weight of tubers: per hill were found to be influenced by the size and kind of seed planted. Whole potatoes used as seed yielded heavier than half potatoes, and these more than quarters, and the larger the seed piece the greater the yield per .hill., A whole potato used as seed yielded more than a half or quarter potato of equal weight. The experiments showed that ap parently light soils are (better for potatoes than heavy soils. The low est' production of tubers, with re - - - * - ^ -- "TIME TO SEEK GOD." CO-OPERATIVE REVIVAL SERVICE Beginning September 25, at the Cov ington Methodist Church, Jefferson and 22nd avenues, under the leader ship of Rev. Bozeman and evangel istic team. Therc will be stirring singing and speaking will be short. 1 Special soloists and cheering choruses will lso be features. Everybody is"i cordi-ay ýinvited to attend *.**-::',>,'.. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ :~:- \ : * * ^.^ '» * U SAlways the same. Cafe Du4 Monde spect to both number and weight per hill, was on the heaviest soil; the highest numbers and yield were pro duced on the lightest soil. The de partmen thinks it possible, however, that these results might be modified somewhat under different climatic conditions. Resulted in Increase. Two-year tests with irrigation in-:. dicate that the early application of " water before tuber .4~giation hadx started resulted 4tibans'mcrease of aubers, as well as in the weight per hill. Late irrigation actually in Areased the weighit but ihade little difference in the number of tubers per hill. The irrigation experiments ,were not carried to a final conclin Sion, but Indicate that each applica tion of water at almost any period in the growth of the plant, provided. excessive quantities are not used,' may be expected to produce an inu crease in the weight of the .crop, but: that littte or no increase in the num-, bers of tubers is likely to result from g Irrigation after tuber forifation is: well started. The bulletin contains an interest ing description of the tuber-bearing t parts of potoatoes and their method of growth. It may be obtained free on request to the Division of Publi-:7 cations, United States Department of t Agriculture. We are headquarters for the betnA of everything in Vegetable Seeds, Now is the time to start your Fall Garden and plant. Dwarf Peas, C r rots, Cabbage, Beots, Mustard, Let tuce, Turnips, Radish, Parsley, Shal lots, Onion Sets, Reuter's Red Creole ,Onion Seed. Send us a list -of yo;ur requirements and we guarantee sat isfaction. 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