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BANK Oti arnt with. The Opelousas National Bank OPELOUSAS, LA. THE'ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN THE PARISH Resources ample to care for its friends and Customers ACCOUNTS SOLICITED OFFICERS: DIRECTORS: E. B. Dubuisson, President Chas. F. Boagni Chas. F. Boagni, Vice-President E. B. Dubuisson A, Leon Dupre, Vice-President, A. Leon Dupre and Cashier R. LeBourgeois M. J. Pulford, Assistant Cashier Robert Sandoz A. A. Comeau, Assistant Cashier - R L Fields, Utility UNFORTUNATELY The Homes and Barns _ - ~ of our rural districts do not enjoy the protection afforded by the fire de 's partments of our cities FAR! and towns, hence the greater need of insur ý ance against loss or Sdamage. SEE US ABOUT YOUR FIRE INSURANCE! OPELOUSAS INUAC AGXICY~ H.D.LAP CADE JR. MGR. GENEIPAL fV INSURANCE 1 Mall" I ** MULtES SEE U Mouret & Co. U OPELOUSAS, LA. LANDRY STREUT Also ALL KIND$ OF ANIMAL FEED STUFF MARES COUNTRY WEEKLIES GIVE SPACE TO FAIRS The state university agricultural forces are glad to note that the news paper of the state, and especially the country weeklies, are giving a large amount of space to agricultural fairs. This is true of practically every week ly in parishes where fairs are held. Not only did these papers make an jouncements and run news stories con eerning the fairs in advance, but in some cases gave editorial support to the fair management, and made illu minating editorial comment on the ex hibits. "The parish fair" Is the subject of fl interesting editorial appearing In s recent issue of The St. Tammany Parmer, Editor Mason writes, in part as follows: "It must be gratifying to the man agement of the parish fair to note the excellence of the agricultural exhi bits, and our farm agent, Mr. Felix Bachemin, is to be congratulated up .n the interest awakened among the farmers. Any one strolling through the agricutulral department must have bIJ struck by the remarkable exhi Inn ne, corn and potatoes. These Lorede products that should f4Ad - er onarket at a good profit if king bi a businesslike 'manner, t the r got believe that our re * reis respect are known out ae. ammany parish. The par 4Il exprves the success it has CAlpin ,what has been done has the hardest kind of work. Men at the head of it have neg lected their own business and given valuable time to make it a success. All have worked very hard. At this fair the colored people have joined forces and have a department of their own which they expect to bmake very interesting. "We believe the promise to make this the most interesting of all fairs has been kept." "A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM" Neson Burt is now a pupil at the Ab beville high school, Vermilion parish. He was a member of the party of boys who, under the leadership of Capt. T. H. Harrip and Professor Staples, re cently made a trip through the mid dle west visiting farms, slaughter houses and agricultural schools. The following paragraph is taken from Ne son's report of his trip. "A visit to Armour's packing plant was of great interest. This plant slaughters three hundred cattle, one thousand sheep and twelve hundred hogs an hour. We saw the entire pro cess of killing, curing, packing, and preparation for shipment. The com pany ownes sixteen plants and employs sixty-two thousand people. Lectures concerning diseases and choice size of livestock proved very valuable. The buying of the ticky cattle at 25 per centcent discount proves the value of the tick-free cattle. After lunch furn ished by Armour & Co.. the party visit ed a large- creamery plant, where the I making of great quantities of butter was seen." This boy, who traveled to Chicago and talked with the Armour company, which operates sixteen plants and slaughters twenty-four hundred cattle a day ,comea home and reports that. Armour ,& Co. think ticky cattle worth~ 1 25 per cent less than tick-free cattle. A free animal that weighs 750 pounds is, therefore, worth as much at a 1, 000 pound ticky animal. Neson doesn't stop to comment on this fact. He thinks it needs no com ment. The bare statement of fact is sufficient. It means that beef cattle are worth a third more after they have been freed of ticks than they were worth before. Stockmen, think it over. "I believe we can eradicate the fev er tick if we will first reason honest ly among ourselves as cattle growers, dismissing every thought except the one of how to get together on the sub-i ject of improving animal industry as necessary to successful agriculture." -R. L. Hines. MAKING THE FARM HOME ATTRACTIVE A hunw ar'd Its surrounding must be attractive in order to be most up- t lifting to the fairily, visitors and pass srs-by. Farmnteads especially n'-ed atten thon in order to secure satisfactcry con, ditions. The farm home and the farm business are so closely related that the success of the latter is reflected in the appearance of the former. All the buildings- with their imme diate surroundings must be ccusidered. The roads and walks; the home veg etable, fruit and flower gardens; the lawns; and the ornamental plantings are also important factors in deter- 1 mining the plan. Each building needs sufficient land about it to give it a proper appear ance and provide the necessary yards or work room, and each should be so located with respect to other buildings as to facilitate the, work of the farm. Roads and walks should be ,imited to the number necessary to facilitate daily traffic. Vegetable, fruit ,and flower gar dens must- provide liberally for the family needs. The lawns should be so located and of such size as to give a pleasing set ting for the home, but not large enough to make their care burden some. Suitable plantings are necessary to unite the parts of a farmstead into a pleasing, homelike whole. Trees are used for windbreaks, as frames for the buildings or a background for them, and to give shade. Shrubs are need ed in abundance to hide partially the, foundation lines of buildings, support their corners give reasons for turns in drives or walks and to screen un sightly objects. Native trees and ! shrubs and those known by trial to thrive in the locality are the best to use. Farmers' Bulletin 1087,, Beautifying the Farmstead, contains many sugges tions along this line. Free copies may be obtained by addressing Extension Editor University Station, Baton Rouge,. BIG INCREASE IN YIELD OF CANE An acre fertilized with 300 pounds of nitrate of soda and 250 pounds of ac cidmphosphate produced 23 tons, 165 pounds of cane, while an unfertilized acre produced 12 tons, 915 pounds, ac croding to a test made on the farm of A. Wilbert's Sons large sugar planters of Iberville parish by Hamilton Les seps, farm demonstration agent An acre on which 500 pounds of 8 1-2 per T'he cost of the nitrate of soda and acid prosphate was $16.15, or about equal to the present selling price of two tons of cane. This gives a pro fit of about sixty dollars an acre from the use of this fertilizer. The cotton seed meal test gave an increase of on ly one ton, 1615 pounds of cane per acre at a cost of $17.50. Mr. Lesseps is very much elated ov er the good results obtained from the use of nitrate of soda and acid phos phate on cane. HOME AGENTS WILL MEET DECEMBER 2-8 The annual meeting of all home de monstration agents of Louisiana will be held at the Louisiana State Uni versity from December 2 to 8 ,inclu sive ,anounces Miss Norma Overbey, state home demonstration agent. In the morning administrative sessions f will be held and will be participated in by agents from the northern and southern districts of the state. The afternoon work will consist of instruc tions and laboratory work on the fol lowing subjects: meat curing and can ning, dairy garden and poultry work, and home ornamentation. The agents will be divided into sections for these meetings according to the localities in which they work. At the conclusion of the day's work the agents will prepare a repast from the dishes experimented within the laboratory on that day. This will eli minate the waste which ordinarily ac companies such demonstrations and at the same time will furnish an oppor tunity for the agents to get together for friendly chats. Urove's Tasteless chil Toele remoe vithiy end energy by pcrll and en riching the blood. You can acesn fisks Stheanh= emb Invlgwatitg ised. Price $. NEW TRIGGER FOR ARMY RIFLE REVERSES USUAL OPERATION With all the improvements that the modem army rifle represents no change has been made in the general form and operation of the trigger since firearms were first used. There is now under test in certan U. S. arsenals, however, a new type of trigger action that, while similar in appearance to the usual form, actually reverses the familiar firing operation says Popular Mechanics Magazi* for December. To fire, the new trigger, which has con siderable fore-and-aft movement, is pulled clear back, and then allowed to move forward again. At about the halfway point of its forward travel the rifle is discharged. OBSERVANT FLIERS IN IOWA DISCOVER HIDDEN STILLS For revealing ditails hidden from horizontal observation, the value of the "bird's eye" view was demonstrat ed anew in Iowa not long ago. The attention of a flier, circling sabout near Des Moines ,was caught by tar ious ribbons of smoke arising from ap parently deserted. regions, and closer inspection revealed, a number of autos hidden in the brush, asserts an arti cle, in the December Popular Meehan h s Magazine. When the airman re turned with a companion and made a landing a large copper still was dis covered attended by four men, and fed with corn from a wagon. WESTERN LAKE SPRINGS A LEAK AFTER EARTH DISTURBANCE After gaining a reputation among fishermen and camping parties by many years of reliable behavoir, Pa melia Lake, in the mountains of west ern Oregon, suddenly sprung a leak last summer like a punctured basin, according to an article in the Decem ber Popular Mechanics Magazine. To ward the end 'of the season the water surface had shrunk to a few acres all the rest having drained out through fissures in 'the bottom, enlarred, ap parently, by some subterranean dis turbance. AUTO SIGNAL SHOWS WARNING AT FRONT AND REAR A double safety signal for automo biles, which Indicates to pedestrians in front and the driver of a car in the rear just what the driver of a car St. Landry's leading Men's and Boy's Store Lower Priced Clothes for Everybody There are only two 'ways to make lower 1 prices on clothes-either lower the quality, standards or take less than a normal profit on fine goods. We won't sell cheap quality, so we've low ered prices on Hart Schaffner & Marx fine suits and overcoats. Remarkable values at $35 $40 $45 You get your money back if you're not satisfied. WINSBERG'S "The Quality Shop" equipped with the 'new device intneds! I to dlo, is a recent development, ae cordink to an illastrated article appear ing in Popular Mechanics Magazine for December. The device consist of abox mounted on top of the left rear fender, where It can be sen from both front and rear. BUILD HUGE WESTERN STADUM BY ODD HYDRAULIC SYSTEM Using a hydraulic mining system and a battery of pumps is a queer way to build a stadium, but is one now being employed with success at Seattle, Wash. The big amphitheatre, 487 by 256 ft., inside, and seating 60.000 per sons, is being constructed on a stretch of level ground, states an illustrated article In the December issue of Pop ular Mechanics Magazine. Where the seats are to be, wood forms have been erected. Using a giant nozzle and a high-pressure stream of water, the soft earth in the central field is wash ed up and converted Into thin mud. EDITOR HOLLAND SHOWS INTEREST IN FAIR ,Te St. Helena Echo recently offered a year's subscription for the best ar ticle on the subject, "The value of community fairs." The prize was awarded to Miss Alice Davis of Greens burg, but according to Editor W. T. Holland two other contestants were very close seconds. Following is the. prize-winning 'article: "Community fairs are splendid or ganizations for the betterment of the farmers and their girls and boys and for the improvement of neighborhoods. They bring the community together to discuss their common interest and to compare ideas as well as products. From these fairs we get good expres aions from farmers that otherwise we would never hear. They point out pos sibilities to some ,and they see where they can improve their own methods by seeing what others have done along these salme lines. -Community fairs are an incentive to boys and girls to make better ef forts in their club work, for when they know their products will be placed on exhibition and come In direct compar ison with others it makes them more careful and painstaking in their un dertakings. It Isn't the value of the cash prize as much as it is the desire to win the honor of having the best ex hibit. The bit of blue ribbon has the same power to arouse a feeling of pride in their work as a cash prize would. "I hope in another year we will start in time to co-operate with our country agent to make our fairs bet ter and broader in every way." Ads.as Reputation Props V Let us build you an toh ad. In this paper; a ca1 um ad., a page ad., or asr olal siz ad. Let k sall in focsful serm What yod've got to sell What k's worth Why i's best at that print Such an advertiam ent in this paper wif brizt buyers who hardly knoew you existed b you advertised. CONSUMER AS WELL AS FARMER BENEFITED It seems to me that, on the whole, we have given too little attention to public opinion as it relates to agri cultural problem. -My misconception on the part of a large group of Indiv iduals as to the true function of pub lic institutions relating to agriculture is almost certain to retard progress Generally 'speaking the consumer thinks that agricultural institutions, including colleges and the (federal) department, are maintained for the benefit of the farmer and for his bene fit alone. This of course, is not true, These institutions are serving with a high measure of efficiency the whole people, urban as well as rural. Dur ing the past fifty years the relative decrease in agricultural population has been very marked. Yet, on the whole the smaller percentage of persons en gaged in agriculture has produced ade quate supplies of farm products. In creased efficiency directly attributable to the work of agricultural institutions has certainly played an Important part in bringing about this result. Every thing done by them that has helped to increase production and to eliminate waste not only has added to the farm ers' income but has also benefitted the city consumer. This fact, however, is not generally understood. One of the tasks ahead of us is to see that such an understanding is conveyed to the public; that it is demonstrated to the people in the cities as well as those in the rural districts, that the funds devoted to agricultural are not used in the interest of the farmer alone but in the interest of the consumer as well.-Secretary E. T. Meredith. UNIQUE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK HAS SHINING SUN An Illinois artisan, formerly a mas ter-clock builder and instructor, has, after five years 'effort, produced an unusual astronomical clock In which the earth is illuminated by phosphore scent rays from the sun and moon, states Popular Mechanics in an Illu strated article for December. By means of correctly designed pinion the miniature earth is made to revolve 365 1-4 times while making one cir cuit of the sun and, as it is tilted at a 23 1-2 degrees -angle the seasonal changes are plainly shown. The moon makes the circuit of the earth in ex actly the right time, keeping one side earthward continuously and going through all the phases and eclipses. A large dial above the regulation clock dial keeps accurate tracks of the seasons, months, days and hours. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Simms, last Monday, a fine baby girl, Aline Marie. The mother, Mrs. Simms, will be remembered by her many Opelou sas friends as Miss Aline M. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Brown. It has been suspected for some time that electric waves are retracted by the shore lines of large bodies of wa ter. Recent observations bear out the theory, and seem to prove that the amount of refraction varies with the length of the wave and the angle at which it crosses the shore.--From the December Popular Mechanics Maga zine.