The star-progress., October 25, 1919, Page 5, Image 5

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THE TINE HAS CONE TO PREPARE
For Winter, but a few weeks ahead—the bleak, cold win
ter days will soon be upon us before we know it. It will
be a source of comfort if you know that your new O'Coat
is ready when the time comes.
Made-to-Measure SUIT or OVERCOAT
$35.00 Up
Trench, Pinch Back and Belted Coats are the Stylish
Things This Season. Hundreds of Patterns to select from.
Fit, Workmanship and Materials Guaranteed. Let us take
your measure NOW. We ll have it ready before the cold
weather.
L. LEVINE
Landry Street Phone 395
STEAM CLEANING AND PRESSING
WHILE YOC WAIT
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meet your taste!
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out of the ordinary—a flavor and smoothness
never before attained. To best realize their qual
ity compare Camels with any cigarette^ in
the world at any price!
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win you at once—it is so new and unusual. That's
what Camels expert blend of choice Turkish and
choice Domestic tobacco gives you! You'll prefer
this blend to either kind of tobacco smoked straight!
As you smoke Camels, you'll note absence of
any unpleasant cigaretty aftertaste or any un
pleasant cigaretty odor. And, you'll be delighted
to discover that you can smoke Camels liberally
without tiring your taste!
Take Camels at any angle—they surely supply
cigarette contentment beyond anything you ever
experienced. They , re a cigarette revelation.
You do not miss coupons, premiums or gifts.
You'll prefer Camels quality!
18 cents a package
Came/* are ao Id everywhere in eeientifically aeated pack
a#t. of 30 cigarettea or fan packages <300 cigarettea) in a
glaaaine-paper-covered carton. We at rang !y recommend
this carton for the home or office supply or when you travel.
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO-, Winaton-Selem, N. C.
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CHEAP RICE
Might Sound Funny
BUT IT'S TRUE.
We can cutout the middle man's'profit and
Retail you WELL CLEANED rice at a
SAVING of from 3 to 4 cents
Per pound. We offer better
' Bargain on hundred
Pound lots UP
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WE SELL ALSO THE BEST RICE POLISH,
BRAND AND CHICKEN FEED AT
, L OW PRICES
SEE US
Peoples Gin Go.
SIMON STELLY, Manager,
Opelousas, - Louisuma.
Louisiana Forging to Front in
Quantity and Quality of
Production
(From the New Orleans Item.)
Louisiana is slowly forging to the
fore as a wool producing state, de
clares John S. Denee, field agent of
the United States bureau of crop es
timates.
An estimate recently made places :
the wool production in Louisiana this
year at 612,000 pounds. In 1918
production was 592,000 and in 1917
560.000 pounds.
The crop brought an estimated to
tal value of $361,000 to the wool I
growers of this state.
Louisiana farmers are learning J
that a little more care in preparing ;
wool enables them to obtain better '
prices for it, says Mr. Denee. He le- !
dares that some of the farmers are^
even separating the colors and taking
the burrs out of the wool before
shearing.
Fleece in the last clip varied in !
weight from one and three-quarters
pounds for lambs to five pounds for
full grown sheep, the higher weight
being rare and found only occasion
ally in some of the northern tier of
parishes where the flocks are com
paratively smaller. A fair average
weight for all was 3.9 pounds.
When compared with the wool out
put this year of the eleven other
Southern states, Louisiana ranked
fifth, being passed by Texas, Tennes
see, Virginia and Mississippi in the
order named.
The United States production in
1919, is 265,450,000 pounds against
256.870.000 in 1918.
As a sheep and wool state Louis
iana ought to rank much higher, says
Mr. Denee. The census of 1910 gave
178.000 sheep and lambs in Louis
iana at that time ; the estimated num
ber on January 1, 1919, was only
230,000. On the five and a quarter
millions of acres of denuded pine
lands in this state, there is ample
room for hundreds of thousands of
sheep. In 1910, according to the cen
sus, only three per cent of Louisiana
farms had sheep on them. Many far
mers are interested in sheep, but are
not producers, because the farmers
have never become convinced that
there is any profit to be derived not
withstanding the many efforts made
I in the last few years to popularité
this animal.
The largest centers of production
e in Beauregard and the Florida
parishes. The industry when it be
comes well established will be es
pecially valuable to the small farm
er. It will enable him to keep the
weeds down and the revenue up,
though Mr. Denee does not wish to
as
in
bêünderstood by any means as das
sifying sheep as scavengers
A deterring factor in the growth
of this animal industry is the killing
of the animals by worthless curs. But
even that factor has been taken care
of by Act 239 of the General As
sembly of Louisiana, at its last reg
ualr session. The law provides that
predatory curs destroying sheep may
be shot instanter, and it imposes sub
stantial pénalités on the man who
keeps a dog that kills sheep.
L. S; U.
FACULTY TO
AID THE STATE FAIR
Twenty-three members of the Col
lege of Agriculture and extension di
vision of the Louisiana State Uni
versity will act as superintendents
and judges of exhibits at the state
fair to be held at Shreveport Octo
ber 22 to 27. Close co-operation with
the University has been the policy of
the state fair since its organization
fourteen years ago. Living quar
ters on the fair grounds are provided
by the management for the accommo
dation of the University force. In
addition to furnishing men to judge
exhibits and superintend the differ
ent departments of the fair, the col
lege of agriculture- makes extensive
exhibits of its own. In fact, the par
ish exhibits, which are usuaUy in
charge of the farm demonstration
agents, and the boys and girls clubs
products form the greater part of the
display in the agricultural building.
The University members who will
take part in the state fair this year
and their respective duties are as fol
lows: W. R. Dodson, in charge of ag
ricultural division; W. R. Perkins and
G. L. Tiebout, judges; J. A. Redhead,
superintendent of agricultural build
ing; B. Zsymoniak, judge of fruits
and nuts; W. G. Taggard, judge of
sugar cane, syrup and sugar; J. M.
Jenkins, judge of rice; A. F. Kidder,
superintendent of corn division ; C
W. Edgerton, judge of corn; C. H.
Staples, superintendent of cattle di
vision; J. G. Lee, Jr., superintendent
of beef cattle division; J. M. Cadwal
lader, superintendent of dairy divis
ion; E. L. Jordan, superintendent of
swine division; G. P. Williams, su
perintendent of sheep division; T. H.
Milliken, superintnedent of horse di
vision; J. B. Francncioni,superintend
I ent of pig club division; Miss Alice
S. Hickman, superintendent of can
ning and home demonstration clubs ;
Miss Clyde Mobley and Miss Mary
= )Sue Maddox, assistants; F. W. Spen
cer, superintendent of corn dub and
corn judging clubs; Felix Bachemin,
assistant m corn judging contests ;
T. A. Green, superintendent of poul
try club division; Miss Margaret M.
Park, assistant.
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The One that Fits the Road—or the One that Rides the Rjdge
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Recommended by the Government.
The standardized wagon fits the pre
vailing track made by automobiles and
is the wagon yon will want to buy.
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This Wagon » Out of Date,
wide track wagon no long«
roads when they are mudd]
Thi» 60*
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' and soft.
W OULDN'T you rather buy the style of wagon recommended by your Government,
especially when it is designed to pull easier, ride smoother, and last longer — the
wagon that fits the roads and does not ride the ridge?
The Standardized Weber "Au to-track" Wagon saves wear on itself, other wagons,
automobiles, and rubber tires. ,
The Weber fifth wheel and swivel coupling wagon is either sold at a price much too low
or mort other wagons are sold at prices much too high, quality considered. Compare and draw your own conciuaion.
To date die leading wagon manufacturers of America have sold at the most conservative estimate IUU.WW
standardized auto-track wagons. From this introduction it is but a step to universal use of this type ot waaon.
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then
F. L. SANDOZ,
Opelousas, — — —
Louisiana.
THE SOUTHERN STATES H *V r A npPTC O THE 56* A UTO TRACK WAGON
STILL IN THE RING
After Fifteen Years of Strenuous
Battling and Hard Usage, Model
"F" Ford Still Good
In the salesroom of the Denk
Thompson Company, Ford dealers in
Detroit, is Ford touring car No. 604,
looking wonderfully youthful and
sturdy despite its sixteen years of
daily service. The car was accepted
as $50 on the purchase of a new Ford.
Apart from style the old timer is
worth more than that—it "goes" and
the motor is quite some years this
side of being a pensioner, but vogue
in motordom has changed since 1904.
Engines are no longer wound up
from the side; steering wheels no
longer stick straight up into the' air;
and then, too, eight horse power and
five gallon gas tanks aren't quite
sufficient for the modem motorist.
The faithful Ford has not outworn
its usefulness— it ha3 merely outlived
itself. It is as though an old Indian
chieftan would sport himself adorn
ed in ear-rings, feathérs and mocca
sins among his college-bred ,stylishly
clad offspring. Noblest among them
but of a different age.
And so with this Model "F" Ford.
What stories it might tell of following
worn, rutted wagon roads, over
strange country perhaps, running
through creeks*where bridges had not
been built, making its-owners happy.
Detroit wasn't so much of a town fif
teen years ago. It was Henry Ford's
second year manufacturing Fords in
a factory, his company had just been
organized.
It is not known who the original
purchaser of this dependable old Ford
was, or where he lived, whether in
New York or California, Michigan or
Florida. Six-O-Four may have trav-
eled all of the state in the Union.
But now it has returned to the plaoe
of its birth, there to enjoy a quiet, re-
spectable old age, while it keeps on
running and running and running,
and cheating the junk man.
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SHOULD PROTECT CORN
FROM WEEVIL INJURY
WeeviJ injury to stored corn is of
much greater importance in Louisi
ana than in the states further north.,
In Louisiana the weevil is able to
breed much more rapidly during the
months corn is held in storage than
is the case in those sections of the
country where lower temperatures
prevail, according to entomologists
in the experiement sation, Louisiana
State University.
Methods for conserving corn from
weevils in the gulf states are de
scribed in Farmers' Bulletin 1029 of
the United States department of agri
culture. Two systems are mentioned
The one that is considered most satis
___s
ter
fall
ered
can
the
S.
factory consists in protecting the jj,
corn in tight cribs or rooms by ftfW ul
gation with carbon disulphide. It is ed
recommended that corn so stored be
husked in the field. Detailed de
scriptions of wooden and galvanized
cribs successfully used by two Louis
iana farmers are given. In cribs of
rooms that are gas tight or nearly so,
four to six pounds of carbon disul
phide per 1,000 cubic feet of space is
enough for thorough fumigation. The
corn should be fumigated as soon as
it is all in the crib and one or two
later fumigations may be necessary
if it is kept in storage until spring.
The need for these subsequent fumi
gatons will depend upon whether or
not living weevils appear in the corn.
Corn can not be satisfactorily fu
migated in loosely constructed con
tainers and where tight cribs or
rooms are not available it is advis
able to separate the corn at harvest
One Ammu .v 0 renient 11 ef<
Grant said: "I propose to fight it out along these
lines if it takes all summer," and in this declaration he
showed a tenacity of purpose and a persistence that was
probably a vitally important factor in shaping his mar
velous career. I
Persistence is admirable in many things. It is abso
lutely necessary to successful saving.
Start now—persevere—deposit something with us
every week. Under these conditions your savings account
with us will develop amazingly, and you will hare a feel
ing of "preparedness" which you may never before have
known.
We will be glad to start an account with you upon
the deposit of one dollar, and we offer splendid interest )
and absolute safety.
DIRECTORSs
E. B. DUBUISSON,
CHAS. F. BOAGNI,
R. LeBOURGEOIS,
ROBERT SANDOZ,
A. LEON DUPRE.
OFFICERS:
E. 3. Dubuisson, President.
Ches. F. Boagni, Vice-Presid«
A. Leon Dupre, V.-Pres. and
M. J. Pulford, Assistant Ca
Arthur A. Comeau, Assistant
Robert L. Fields, Utility.
time into two lots, one containg the
___s with long, tight, uninjured
shucks, which protect the ears from
weevil damage, and the other con
taining those ears with loose, broken,
short or damaged shucks. The lat
ter should be fed to stock during the
fall or they may be husked and fumi
gated in tight boxes, barrels or other
containers. The Vars that are cov
ered with the good shuck coverings
can be stored for later use.
Futral,
er
the
groom,
ed
gifts
SHOEMAKER-FUTRAL
The marriage of Miss Grace Al
berta Futral to Mr. Charles E. Shoe
maker was solemnized at the home of
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. W. Futral, at Port Barre, La., on
Thursday, October 16, at 9:30 o'clock
jj, m., Rev. Martin Hebert officiating
ul The home was beautifully decorat
ed with flowers. Mendelssohn's wed
ding march, played by Mrs. Frank
Païford, Jr., echoed through the spa
cious rooms as the bridal procession
entered, led by the bride's sister, Ger
trude, who wore a pretty dress of
white Marquisette and carried a bou
quet of pink roses.
The little flower girls were visions
of blue, breaking and scattering rose
peals before the bride as she entered
with her father.
The bride was beautifully dressed
in a gown of white Georgette embroi
dered in white silk. Her veil of white
tulle was daintily arranged with a
wreath of orange blossoms and hung
just to the edge of her dress. She
carried a bouquet of white Chrysan
themums beautifully arranged.
Following the bride with the rings
on a white satin pillow was Samuel
its
ual
that
says
in
a
Futral, Jr., wearing a suit of
The groom brought in by
er John met his bride at the.
Cake and punch were
the many friends of the
groom, after which the ce
ed for a joyful honeymon.
They received many
gifts from their friends.
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SELECT EXHIBITS OF
VEGETABLES WITH
a
She
A vegetable exhibit is ji
its table qualities first of all.
ual survey of the product is t
that is necessary but at
necessary to cut and taste of 1
etable in order to judge its
says Miss Ola Overbey,
cialist, extension division.
State University.
"All succulent vegetables to
hibited should be fresh and
grown. Then, if harvested
right time, they will not be
stringy, woody or of an oy
flavor. Neither will they be
in desirable qualities due to
turity. The texture will be
"The product to be
should also be selected for
ity in size and shape, it
a good color, and be free
and disease. All exhibits
handled with care.
'If these precautions are
in preparing the vegetable
will aid materially m
dard of products
SALE—Fare
cockerels.
fOR
F cockerels. Adc
DALY, R. F. D. No.
La.