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The Tansas Gazette.
ST.'JOSEPH. - - - LA.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1911.
ABNER E. LtREEN, - EDITron.
UBSCRIPTIOUN VRARLY r
IJ Atlvace. 1..
Boys' Corn Clubs in the South.
(The Daily States.)
The vital problem of the rapid
growth of American cities and the
corresponding depopulation of the
farms formed the theme of an in
teresting address of Congressman
Ranedell, of Louisiana, before the
House several days ago. Mr. Rans
dell suggested that a solution might
be found in a larger development
of the idea of the boys' corn club
movement in the South. He sketch
ed interestingly the origin of the
idea and the remarkable results of
the movement.
The plan originated with Dr.
S. A. Knapp, of Calcasieu, a native
of Iowa, whom ill health forced to
seek the balmy climate of Louisiana
twenty-five years ago. Dr. Knapp
is now 77 years old and for several
years has been in the service of the
Department of Agriculture, engaged
in farmers' co-operative demonstra
tion work.
Dr. Knapp felt the wealth and
independence of the South would
be largely increased if it could be
persuaded to turn more of its atten
tion to cereal crops. He realized it
was impossible to teach old men
how to raise corn, on the principle
that it is difficult to teach an old
dog tricks. So he decided to appeal
to the boys. Five years ago in a
small way he began to organize his
boys' clubs. It was slow work at
first, but there was the usual reward
of perseverence.
A year ago the first club had
grown into an army of 12,000 act
ive members, of whom the four best
were sent to Washington to receive
diplomas for exceptional success in
cultivation. Last year the total
reached 46,225, of whom eleven
went to the national capital to be
honored with diplomas and to bel
received by the President, the prize
winner in each State being the one
who made the best average in yield
to the acre, manner of cultivation ,
of the soil, profit on the crop and
wrote the best description of the
crop.
The Texas boy, who was the top
notcher, raised a little over 285 bush
els and the South Carolinian 228 3-4
bushels to the acre. What this
means may be judged from the fact
that in the two great corn-raising
States of Illinois and Kansas the
average bushels per acre are respect
ively 89 and 19.
Nor were these isolated acres.
Dr. Knapp made up a list of 100
boys and the average yield was
107.7 an acre. Mr. Ransdell said
the world had never seen anything
to equal that record. It meant
that the corn belt of the country
was moving southward and that
the South can raise as much or
more corn than any other section on
earth. Of the total production of
the country last year.it had raised
41 per cent, of a value of $627,000,
000, and yet a few years ago it was
considered actually nnsuitid to the
production of corn. Mr. Ransdell
said tbhis year the number of boys
enrolled in the corn clubs would
reach 100,000. In Louisiana Prof.
Roy had carried on the work with
wonderful success and last year had
6,698 boys enrolled, one of whom,
Young Henry, of Natchitoches, had
captured the highest prize in the
republic.
Mr. Ranadell expressed the be
lief that, carried to its logical anal
ysis, Dr. Knapp's idea would
even tally solve the problem of the
development of the city at the ex
pense of the country.
"The census statistics show that
our cities and towns have grown
about three times as fast as the
country districts," he said.
"The statistics also show that
farm property in many portions of
the country has diminished very
considerably in value in the last
twenty-five years. We must do,
something to make the boys and
lirls tisaed on the farm, and that'
eamao be better done than by
Serig them how to make life on
the farm more proftable, by show
ing them how to produce more out
of amn acre of land than ever they
psdmsd before, and how to earn
wages mt m aity equal to but actually
better thm the average wage of thet
saw wan or woman in almost any a
'Ms .workla citiem or towns.
"gg wht thi mdedal mearn
QlmamU e, m Ne the 1001
the atcre. 'I Ie aeInage ta pmLu
duction of the couutl'y was 21.4 in
1910. In many of tue louuther
States under our faulty and indif
ferent methods of cultivation, it
has not averaged 20 bushels per
acre; but let us take a general av
erage of 27.4 bushels, and these
- boys have made barely five times as
much as the general average.
"Certainly if the boys can do
that grown men, with all the ad
1 vantages of their superior years,
e ought to do much better, and I
e know of no work that is destined to
- be more beneficial to this Republic
r than this intelligent, far-reaching
e work of educating the boys and the
- Southland to raise more corn per
t acre."'
t IR OM' ICIODII NGt
or rTH
POLICE JURY.
f STATE OF LO)UISIANA,
PARISH OF TLNs.s.
St. Joseph, La., March 6th, 1911.
Be it known that on this 6th day of a
l March, 1911, it being the first Monday (
in said month, and the day for the regu
lar meeting of the Police Jury of the Par- I
ish of Tensas, said Honorable Body met
at the Court House in St. Joseph, La.
1 There were present: Mr. F. H. Curry,
e President, an< Messrs. D. Muir, Jno.
l Murdoch, R. B. Lynch, Ieois T. Hunter
and B. F. McVay, members.
Abs'nt-Mr. Wm. A. Register.
On motion of Mr. Lynch, duly second
en, the following resolution was adopted:
l Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
the Parish of Tensas, That the rice plant- a
ere who contemplate using the public a
road ditches for draining their rice fields
must first secure special permission to
that end from the Police Jury of this
parish; that application for such permis
mission must be made in writing and
signed by the owner or lessee of the land q
to be so drained; that such application
shall contain an agreement and obliga
tion on the part of the applicant to keep
L the ditches so to be used well cleaned out
I and at all times clear of vegetatib; that o
at no time shall the water be allowed to
rise to the level of the banks of amid
ditches, and that for at least two full con
secutive days out of each week such 01
ditches shall be entirely free from water
from said rise fields, and said applicant
shall assume full reponsibility for any
and all damage to the said rpds and
ditches caused by reason of such use, and tl
shall repair same at his own expense.
Resolved further, That all persons c
building or maintaining flumes across the
public roads of this pariah must, within t
sixty days herefrom, obtain"special per- tl
mission to construct and maintain same,
or, if such work be already constructed,
then permision mbet be obtained to o
I maintain same; that any such flumes,
whether already constructed or to be G
hereafter constructed, shall be ordered b
removed and the responsible parties pro
-ceeded against for obstructing a public k
-highway unless said parties shall have
( ,)tained the permission herein prescribed f
S within the time herein named. Appli- tl
t cation for such permission shall be made
in writing signed by applicant andlshall
l contain specifiaetions for maid flumes,
e name of road and place where same is to
be located, and agreement that the vamp
over said flume'shall have a grade or
*lope of not less than ten to oae, and ob
Sligating the applicant to keep ame in
such condition as not to damage said g
a rod or inconvenience those who use
ame. P
SMeasts. F. H. Curry, D. Muir and 1
t Louis T. Hunter are hereby appointed a
committeee with full power aid authority u
to act on said applications,",to allow or a
iject'sme as in their opinion may aseem
proper.
1 On motion of Mr. Muir, doly second- p
f ed, the following resolution rs unamni- y
I mously adopted:
Whereas, This parish has become i
largely interested in the raisita of hogs, s
!and consequently in the methods of
a I maintaining them in a healthful condi
I tion, and the intelligent treatment of the
disess to which they are subject, es
Specially hog cholera or swine plague.
And Wheress, There has prevailed
among the herds in the Lake St. Joseph
Sand Lake Bruin neighborhoods, for the P
I past eight or ten months, an epidemicof
some very fatal disease, which has catused
the death of some thouands of valuable u
hogs. That while the said disease has
e been pronounced hog cholea, or swine ti
plague, yet its ravages have failed utter- a
Sly to yield to the effets of innoculation g
of the bog cholera serum, prepared, far
nished and administered under the mu
Spervision of the State Live Stock BSanitary
! Board, in some instances two innocula- cI
- tions having failed to arrest the progre a
of the diseseae.
t And Whereas, Dr. W. H. Dalrymple,
President of the 8tate Live Stock Sanitary
SBoard, is a veterinariaun of great ability
eand national reputation, and one who
enjoys the conofidence of the people
L thrqughout the State.
STherefore, Be it neolved by the PClee
Jury of the Pariah of Tenass, That Dr.
rW.H. Dalrymple be rad he is hereby
requested to visLt this pariah in p~erson,
>and make a thorogh and complete in- T
I vrestigation of the disease now prevailing
among the hog in this aection.
Be it fartlher Rfesolved, That a copy of
these resolutions be forwarded to the N
IHon. J. Y. 8anders, Governor of the t
State of Loielanta, to Dr. W. H. Il- t
rymplIe, and to the 8tare Live 8tock
Sanitary Board. in
Be it fmther Resolved, That the Clerk If
of this Board be ad he is besebyau
thorised to warant on the Treasrer of p
this paIrish for the neesasary funds to pay e
the coets of this laremtigation.
The followtng blls were alloed ad t
edned paid a:
o oee o . .h t.r toe mmat lb
la, 4dles a nd WUe 6 Biu In
S3.50 to $5to s.o00
Oiler M sa
$1.00 to $3.00
Newe i in [uo ialn(s ( ds
TIao[d Suils
$13.50 to $60.00
Thos. J. Reed & CO.,
"I'e's zad Boy's lur."
Natcbhz, liss. 4 aib steL
of buying or assisting in the purchase
of prizes in the Perish Boys' Corn Club
r Contest.
There being no further business, the
Police Jury adjourned sine die.
F. H. CURRY,
President.
R. H. WHnTrrr, Clerk.
p' Cur Cu fu r Teres Pais.
NEWELLTON, LA., March 8, '11
Editor Tensas Gazette,
St. Joseph, La.
Fourteen boys in this parish have
agreed to join the boys' corn club,
and I hope others will join before
it is too late.
As some of the boys were not here
to hear Mr. Roy lecture and organ
ize the club, I will tell the boys
through your columns what is re
quired of them.
Any boy under 15 years old may
have his ground broken for him.
The boys are required to do all the
work, and to keep a strict account
of the cost of the crop. They
must charge the crop with the labor
of both man and beast at the rate
of 10 cents per hour for his labor
or the labor of the man to break
the land and 5 cents per hour for
the horse labor. For every two
horse wagon of manure, a charge
of $2.00 must be made. For com
mercial fertilizer he must charge
the actual cost of same. He must
charge 50 cents for the seed corn to
plant the acre. The boys must keep
a strict account of the cost, for in
the fall when the corn is harvested
they will be required to make a re
port of the yield and of the profits,
and write an essay on the culture
of the corn.
An acre is 4840 square yards.
Get your fathers or guardians to
help you measure it off.
In the fall, when you are ready
to harvest the crop, it becomes my
official duty to appoint a committee
from some of your neighbors to see
the corn gathered and measured.
In order to have a uniform stand
ard over the State this committee
is to have 'every twentieth barrell
shelled and weighed. This is done
in order to get the yield in bushels
per acre.
The Police Jury has offered $50
in prizes, and I will secure, if pos
sible, $50 more. There will be first,
second and third prizes in yield,
profits, beet ten ears and an essay
on corn culture.
Now, boys, I wish to impress
upon you the necessity of reading
.nmd preserving the literature sent
you by the Agricultural Department
on corn culture. Study these re
ports and instructions closely that
you may act intelligently.
Please do not use these books of
instructions to kindle the fires as
so many faimers do.
Very truly,
Tos. M. WADE, Supt.
Cpiut as tbSp ULmit.
MR. EDfioR:-As an humble cit
izen of this town I wish to utter a
protest against a growing and dan
gerous practice of some of our fel
low citizens who indulge in the lux
ury of speeding their autos in town.
It is a careless and reckless prac
tice. They travel at an unnecessary
and unreasonable speed and fail to
give any warnings or show any dis
position to avoid consequences of
thes action. That there has been
no serious accident as yet is no
credit to themselves or excuse for
a continuance of the practice. One
person's life and property are as
much to him as that of another.
There have been several very nar
row escapes within the last few days.
Toot your horns, gentlemen, and
travel at a more reasonable speed,
especially in town and when turn.
ing the sharp corners of our streets.
Respectfully,
B. F. BovxgR.
Baton Rouge, La., March 2.
The annually occurrinl topic at tbe
condition on the track and train
service on the Memphis, Helens
and Louisiana division of the IromI
Mountain railway is sain ulp before
the Railroad Commission at l naet
month's session. For the t fs e
years the commission has been try
ing to improve the servi~e over the
Iron Mountain, but judging
the rgnlarity with which new om
plaints have been re~aied everyl
year, them has apmottly been lit
tle imposment. Th shipgrs of
the med ay that thbrs ar ot o i
two trnm tesa weuk run ows'
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I tr O dCQ diC2 with the law. thMr
S~ B ,, elotion on 1DY,
tI at yd April 111, in the T(n
ayk r , tf hp the purpos o
L, e Aldermen and a
I for t ensuing two years.
I followint will serve as Canommse
anad Clerk at aid election:
I A. B rant, J. P: gFoet, T. H. Snod
ra Commissioners; A. .'Lewis, Clerk.
W. M, I)AVII*ION, Mayor.
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JUDICIAL ADVEETIBSMIYN .
I State of Louiiana, Parish of Tenm,
Tenth District Court.
Semeedoan oc Sarah Clarke, deceased.
PUBLIC NOTYICE is hereby given that
by virtue of an order of sale to me di
rected, as Adaminstrator of the above
tateby the above named Honorable
Court, lid the.ebove atled matter, I will,
on
Sirdaye, the 18th do of March,
A. D. 1911,
offer for ale at the Court House door in 8
the town of St. Joseph, in this parish, J
between the hours of 1J1o'clock A. MI
and 4 o'clock P. M., to the highest-bid
der, for cah, and according to law, the I
to the d8u&aon of Sarh Clartk, de- r
ceased, to-wit:
A part of Stonewall plantation, in Tea
s? Parish, Louisiana, lying in Section
14, Township S13, Range 11 Erst, bound.
ad North by lanud of Dennis Lee, arst by 8
land of Jim Gaines, Sooth by land of
NMtate of Sam Mimms, and West by See
tion 16, containing 66 acres, more or
tan, together with the buildings and im
proaeeaus thereon, and appurtenances a
tbulewto belonging, or appertaining; c
one horse, one cow, and ,mne buggy, as
per inventory and appraiaement on h -e1
Successon f Sarah Clarke, deceased.
Terms of Sale: Cash, to the last and
highest bidder, with benefit of appraise
ment, according to law.
FRANK L GUTHRIE.
Administrator of the Succession of Sarah
Clarke, deceased.
St. Joseph, La., February 7th, 1911.
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JUDICIAL ADV3TIr5rXLrlha
UlMISU> AED SALS.
State of Lounalana, Parish of Tenses. r
10th District Court. I
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SAM BEEKMAN o
vs. No. 5448
E. P. DABNY'
DUBLIC NOTICE Is hereby given b
that by virtue of a writ of Selz
ure and Sale to me directed by sthe
above named Honorable Court In the
ve styled suit, I have seized and
will. on- a
S-lis lh 15 lti de f IAI,
A. 1 1111,
or fir wale at the Court House door
o teM town of St. Joseph in this parish, 8
betwen the hbers of 11 o'lock a. a 8
and 4 o'eleek p. as. the following do a
arilbed property, attted in the Par
iah of Teases, State of Louisiana. and
e-nd isn rhe above styled ad anu
r salt us property of defenduant
Ihera, to-wit: a
All of Lot No. 8 and the North half!
of Let No. of the Choetaw or Han
sieker plantation, containing 419.8
aeres abl 10.38 acre of land of eald
Cheesaw or Btasieker plantatiosa
whleh Iaes In triangalar shape West of
Let No. S and extends to the Western
boeadary li es of said toetat or
.utmseker plaitation. For more pt- a
tlelar daseztptlon of said property, A
reference beg made to map of said
Chetaw or Hueshsker plantatioen as
same to r.eerded at page 484 and 484.
of Deed Book "K" of Notarial Recordsr
of above parish.
Terms of 8.Jl: Cash.
JOHN HUGH4L Sheiff. W
8r. Josrm, La., March 4, 1b11. A
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&Co.'s at 1.mt la
Sunday, Februau SB, 1911. The
in officen weae almesed for the
yer: W. D. A. Goton,,W
Preldent; Dr. S4.. N. Clarke, Ot.
usph, Vice Pimidmt; Gay N.
Waterproof, Seae ary md Trsemmg
Eecutive Ocumites: W. D. A.
ton, Waterproof, Chaidena; Mm.4.
Greening, Periday; ice Lois
st. Joseph, sd Dr. Geo. . NCar>,'
Clam sup abagi,: ; Miein
;unter, W ra l , -a~
Henry TOOP P
ate; Gerast a.
--Waterprool "btrprbe.
JUDiCAL A1WFRS 3Ngy*.
State of Louliaa, Parnh of
Tenth Ddafr$ COoat.
Succemion of Wa. either sad W
C. nthis 4nnaDtbir, iee'd.
PUBIJ IC E Li bmmeby givm-a
by virtouec an w dr mibom.o
treted, as Adm Jadltr of th
Estate, by tie aboe mnoe Hg
Court, in the aboive d -y.ld ,mns I
on
-ATuSS MAY. SAo s a.
offer for wale at tfs Ort Roaon
tbe Town of St. Jmep, l thdis
between thelbouse of Ileelek A.
4 o'clock r. ar., to thes
for cub,, sad acoerdig to.W, t.
and wi, iad Ann -mtcw,
of id Sem, a, Towup -,
Rane 3K Es.
9 .. onf , io T5,
Sd Sadicm d of ot f,
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The Jury C .I.ia ade
Iwee ndM drew the lar Jrl
Arl tum. Wi saemar nxat
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