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The Lower Coast Gazette
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
The Lower Coast Gazette Co.
F. C. MEVERS, S. B. MEVERS,
President. Secretary.
Pointe'a-la-Hache, Louisiana.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
.PLAQUEMINES PARISH POLICE JURY,
PLAQUEMINES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD,
PLAQUEMINES PARISH EAST BANK LEVEE DISTRICT,,
LAKE BORGNE BASIN LEVEE DISTRICT,
GRAND PRAIRIE LEVEE.DISTRICT,.
BURAS LEVEE DISTRICT.
TERMS:-ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, 1
Entered at the Pointe-a-la-Hache Postoffice as 1
Second Class Mail Matter.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1909.
Good Roads.
The good roads movement under the great imn
pulse given to it by Gov. Sanders, is going on all
over this state and there is every promise of won
-.erful progress in that direction during the next
.ew years. As we have frequently stated in these
columns, the parish of Plaquemines is unfortu
lr nately situated, so far as the road question is con
cerned, Not having any back country, the pub
lic road is of necessity directly along the river
= bank and is ordinarily just inside the public levees.
As the parish is about a hundred miles in length
:. and divided into two parts of the river itself, we
have about 200 miles of roads that demand con- i
sideration. In some of the parishes they are ' set- 1
ting aside two mills for road purposes.. We be- 4
lieve that jt would be wise for the Police Jury of
thit parish to do the same thing, but as the taxe i
have been levied anti the budget formulated for
this year, nothing can well be done in this direc- I
rI tion until next year. -
S Our neighboring parish,,St. Bernard, has.set us
the example in this matter of good road building
and their property, made available by the shell
roads that they have built, is advancing in value
.. by leaps and bounds,. because of the relative near
ness that such improved rpads now give to the
markets of New Orlans. If we should set aside
two mills out of the ordinary taxation, "to be.. ap
plied to road purposes, in fact letting the total
amount of our tax levy be increased to the extent
of two mills, in order th t se two ;nill0s.iniglt
.bd set aside for that p osei wou gie a good
start to road building;,i d it obrde% eeoncile
w what might seem to be conflicting interests, we
tnight begin with a few miles of, road in. several
parts of the parish~and in t Ifay divide the
1, benefits<-that wonu )e4 .rivt qe frpomq
ythegool roads built. For the i'arish of
: St. Berd j~ now compl Ite shell road sys
.=tem dogn to oy r to Terre aux Beufs
Roa d, abo h the parish Tine,
Let uS o nat e seti ofirtr
-good toud bugiing id bild it-mile by mile and
yee. by yea· , as 'apidly Watt'caW te doneo :and the
agrahtage of the roji4 wb4' 1 felt Millt ini
tproved ivlaie of ev6ly mi gf thie'teiritof'y thus
m: iade A iPbl - -Ato thid,Infk ehae let us build
gd:: otoinedminfle b: ~eilteadh way from tie
ouHise, up the Wii t and Wh# dj'II nfgifis
i way nimke theCou~rioiim e more' acce "Ie6 n
SWest laik!of ti 4Iver, 'hrrdewmto i~e neile
~ 'utetos~. am a dheqirkble ti lame
thing telbeibnd to at We stt
1: and build mile by mm ..a wauy alrYas'the
Soundse ould be arran. .,L ,; .. -,
;I: Until some definiteplan can be suggested that
: will promise, if:nbtt a'onee:will proinise eveitital
b: neflts to nearly all the good people'of our pkrish,
.:it will be extremely difficult for us ,to inaigurate
a .y seritous movement in the way of building good
iroads, notwithstanding the eloquent addresises
thalt yov. Sanders.is now delivering all over the
stattand which are received with so much favor.
ei c !certainlx need the roads badly enough and if
we had them our whole country would be made
.:far more aecessible than it is now and under tie
PARISH NEWS.
Nicholls.
Sl.; a rather fussy game 'Smiday, be
I~tqen Point Plasant and "Empire, the
1i~tp . team eae out wlinners by a
r, . i o/ d of t1. hs isuaS the proverb=
f Iad (?) umpire was in evidence to
s€ at t:e are works and both teams
.` i.r pereteetly willing to keep them
 posin4 so if the spectators did not
et the worth of their money in base
·:bail, they certainly got it in chin music.
r Potash.
' . Norbert Rigaud and little son
: Lester are visitors of Misses Leah and
511en Cbedville this week.
A party was given Saturday by the
Potash social crowd in honor of Misses
Sira Martin and Emma Chedville. The
p.ests were;-Mr. and Mrs. Leo Rig.
. d, Mr and Mr. Geo. Martin, Mr.
Mrs. W. Treadway, Mr. and Mrs.
SRouoselle, Mr. and Mrs. 0. Solia
,Mesdames Bob. and Geo. Treada
wa; Misse Lash, Ellen and Emma
:..h. hedville,Daisy Rigaud, Lou Ella Rous
sell. , Bertha Solis, Sidoas,, Rosela and
iSp m .Treadway, Annite and Rose
Richardson, Georgie Bingle, Matilde
- Deminde, Maria Lagrosse and J3sep
'blie Jacomlne; Mesras. Rene Rouselle
h.J! OWide Solis, Fred Richardson,
. IM Chedvlle, Clinton and Ranell
S.igadS : August Armstrong, John
''.-isdivway, Theo Hingle, Orvie Ballay,
.Get Bougon, Louis and Martin Mingle,
: rga Frank Demands, Marc
ad Henry and ames Treada-.
E efim; . ereshment we  served and
was indldged tili oruing
and eveybody ha4 *We the.
Mt s Ea Marsta lest Sunday for her
lphIn Iw Orleans, much ato the re
sM Eman Chedvile is spending one
S"i Xi ; " ¶'
line of procedure' that we have suggested we t
would have a shell road from the St. Bernard line ,
to Pointe.a-la-Hache within five or six years. The
road would have progressed also down towards
Old Quarantine and oh the West bank of the river }
the orange countiy. would be covered-by it ,as well
as fifteen or twenty miles above. ~ . a
All the world is progressing and it becomes us
to endeavor to. keep the pace end not, fall behind. ~
An elderly friend of the wvriter: some ;ixty, years
.ago used to tell us the story of his going to 2New
.York from Central Ohio annually on horseback for
the purpose of purchasing goods. _ Reaching Al
bany he would leave his horse there and proceed E
to New York city by boat ahd there 'mrke' higs
purchases; the goods would be shipped by -boat to.
Albany; West by the Irie Canal, then o6pen to
Buffalo, and thence by lake boat to Cleveland or.
Sandusky and then be hauled overland down to
the center of the state. Plaquemines parish is
not quite that bad off, a~ we have -a. good steam
and powerboat service on the Lower Coast -and
railways on each side of the river.- Our East
bank, however, has the railroad only some thirty
miles down, and personal locomotion in the way
of carriage driving, buggy driving, or automobile
driving is frequently out. of 'the question. - In
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois the standard railways
supplanted the old stage. coaches, canals a'iad
steamboats and now interurban railroads spread
all over these states between the ' variotsg cities;
making communication extremely easyi;., New.
York State has voted some $50,000,.0.00 'for 'the
improvement of the public -roads of that. state,.. ,to.
be expended during the next few ~yars under the
control of proper authorities. .·We in the parish ofi
Plaquemines should make some intelligent effort
in this same direction and the benefits would dis.,
play themselves very quickly,:. as they have' at
ready done in our neighboring parish, St. Bernard..
Modern Agriculture. .
Modern agriculture is fast becoming and, in fact
has already become,;almost an exact 'science.
Half a century ago book farmers and book, farm
ing were regarded.with eontempt by the average
farmer and this from the fact thlt at.. that time
book farmers failed and book farming was a
very deceptive guide. At" that time book farming
was taught in'some caseseconscientiously and with
an earnest desire to be of'service to the agricidl
tural community. The trouble was that some- of
those interested had some slight knowledge, of the
(subject mattet whereof 'they wrote, but still ' a
very imperfect knowledge, and writing in degree i
as thouiigh they Wetk~ well informed,2 armitted
some outrageous aroP-,lat were' jic; y. d'
cerned by the farmers.id .ven by -those' :without
Sany book learning. ...
All this bas now cpeMta a om:'6iodyiii& o ")
studies "are showg the' t logee elatiýo subsisting
betwo e formb7.iAp ,o, &
We now, find that the life t 1ji ts 'how,^ its
trlnsmission ail of the phases of heredit and
Aipy I rsions to
aiainla' are so closelyirate~d4Atat -thelineF
dermarkadtori ' is'sharee@i ji '
fact, iS in 4dii te.- W ,ha9, plenis .with hj~at,
seems to be a.digestive)t \gtfl-",, $ . .
solution aid similati . food-andrwe .have an..
4iirf: r, a.leP jsp*.s -of oysters, and ,-sub4
quentlGiditiblsiil indMt vbrle;, ynt~ Iaiti groW
'1he'great Missouri statesei , Mi iaits W i Hatch,
•for pnaiay years chairman2gf the e6,timi.tee 0Ag
ricultiire of the House of Repneseitteesinab.W ,
ingtton, builded perhaps better than he knew whenr
.t mend .th e now faoinus Hatch bill, whick pio.
vJ4Ed for national aid to experiment stationsiIn af
the staites and territories . of the federal, ~o n.;
Mr. HatCh reedinized the recondlthe chameter of
the actual work of the firer, hvw difficuilt' tdwa
to determine what, when' or why to do things
and appreciate the mrany, riillions of dollars lost
annually 'to the farmnipgt conmmunity by mistakes in
vile.
Mr.' Clinton and Hanill Rigaud are
1eaviii(f~d 'Chicago soon. ' Dont we
wish it was time for their return.
ai' Pii ÷la.-Hache.
n. ,i o n wpold was in our town
this ~l inpectinig the work going
on in thrC"'l l~ahif6f the levees. In
speoael, Ieipold; iasyt that the levees
are all spl opdiition' at present.
M;1 Mi i tIde Martin, after
a weeks recreation here returned toi
New Orleans where. "Mr. Martin re
sames his arduous labors as mixologist
*at the Sar.arac saloon,
Atty. ' 0. S. Livaudals and family
left for New Orleans Thursday .morn-.
ing, with their youngest daughter
Marie, who is critically ill,. -.
Mrs. J. B. Fasterling and her little,
daughter, returned'lqame last Saturday`
from Covington, La., where they .had
been spending several months. ; Both
mother and daughter are the picture of
health.
The Gazette is exceedingly sorry to
state that Mrs; Bernard Savoie is htill
very ill,
Mrs. . O., Martin and chilereu are
spending some time at the home of her
brother, JudgeR. E. ingle.
Judge R. E. Hingle, took a jolly
crowd out- fishing. Wednesday and a
good tithe was shown them. The party
consisted of Judge R. ri Hingle, -Ar I
Martin, Harrison Martin, Leop Hingle,
Clem TSingle,::: Adolphe Martin sand
Felix Pisanni.
Messrs. Harrison Martin and Felli
Pisannl of New Orleans, spent' several
days ih Pointki-la-Hnche this week,
fishing and having a good tiae generi
The soiree at the Coirthouse .school,
lastSatnrdaygiven by the "Three Jolly
Sport': w sa grand success ;.:There
was a larg crowd. The muste ws of
U'i " . ',
yr,3. ' ýW'
during the entire program,
The Largest Catch of Fisbh-Thti
Season.'f
On Thursda y 'moiringk the .Boweu
brothers, set out- fotr. Dawllut's escau.
to seine for shrimpl in mand about' 1
'Adam, Bohtian Bay and the other' bod_
iesof water in that secion, 'It see9s
that no shrimp were, caght but on -ar.
riving at a poipt outsideotGrand ' y
ou, the watersaof which l.e intoi ;~i'
Bastian, * shoal. of flah, was. observe ,
as thick as the horrings on the coast of
Norway when plentifuL .Th~ pet esar
set at once end o record haul made; ;
second st *as made and the'net was
so full of fish-that many had to" be- let
go as the" boat could "not hold 'ore.
590 bull red ltsh, weighing from 8 to 10
pounds were caught, this being all that
could be handled 'under the circun
stances, The Bowers brothers hasten.
ed to the hetºdf the canal in time to
catch the train on the Grand Isle R. ;.
so that the fish could beshipped to the
New Orleia'is arket without delay.
Thirty boxes were 'illed 'and the re
'mainder were placed in bulk in the re
frigerator car of the Grand Isle R. R.
It seems as if the large fish are just
now coming in from.the deep water,
where they hte been during, the .phn
ter season, into. the shallow bays and
bayous all along our coast.- ;
This catch of the Bowerse brothers
shows that the Parish .'of Plaque~thes
is as rich in sea-food as ever but that
the whereabouts of the larger fisb can
not always be found. exeptby piacci
dent, as it were. s
Captaitia Caruso's Anniuai Outin,
John CarusO, not the Caruso of vocal
renown; but -heof local ame in oyster
dom,ýnad the welk 'pf old" Ba you
Cook ring this week`' artush:to'ba ian
ctrred the rather uiil habit ofek-lii
iing surcease from hs; ' aily :a=and
al bt AJ'r,
SK Y' : ,~ ,1..<Y ad,.4fi =,: ° ° '' lYt""'t-1" ;i^.
the work done ani, of dourse, done without ade- :t
quate knowleg:- 'W`XN'flitis- tr~e that in' nearly P
every other direction: iwi,hurn.an effort is ex
ercised, conditions ~i a jti:ago were far be
hind 'what thei are dow :yet' the teachings' of half
a century have revesed..zi :, ;.fihe fact that in
agriculture ,º'tfhij - best abstruse "of'. ll
sciences-and have so many h factors, contr~lgable ""
and uncontrollablg,' dsder,in carrying-ou'agri-.
t$ al work aosi" tands today, the modern agri"
culturist appareifi t 'I. t :a: very scientific,
worker and ableito -:reduce waste. to a niihimum
and to accomplish ,th';gaee t;.,q~m. ount of \work
atndto secare the very best results with the least
outlay of human effort and expenditure.
'The varibous' pert' tlolis. carried on
throughout.bhe.ý eda l.un.' i ii ha e done their t
share during th6 tt i t'It t fi. v years in leading 1
to the wonderful ~ dncese a ij hii modern, agri-.
culture.- The osinnaSi* Ek~eriment Station'
wasone of the pioneers i this good work arid We
are led to hlied'-thýtthi* tiýtar industry i, this
state would ver ihave,-:ecured..its: present pro-,
portions, hdi j po. o.e jda p id of the station,
All these thigs tal tim.eand it has taken a quar
ter of a centur '~oI n ;iUs 1 iigar industry to
progress from the 6 ld rule of thumb, then prevail
jng up to the m "ode mei ' dse of intens eIlture
and concentrate miiae ufauce -'.
S... r rice planting4ndustry i this state, which1
is now the `'ertiftliti'fede ý union, -ind has
been progressing by-leaps and"bounds dring ·re.
cent: years, is in ~mnih.tli at::e'condition as was
tlbx sugar cane industrytwelatyfive -or thirty years
iago:. The e..peiment stIti iwork now tinaugu- .
rated in this iindust'ry and 'that has been carried on
to some extent) or seveal. years, will unquestion,
ably,show godeults in the end. The hearty.
Eooperation ofiSecretary Wilson of the U. S. De
partmeit'of"ragilcul tiIe, ~s sire to usr and we 1
-believe that'-good results will -quickly `f'olio
Amioxng thearlier.,wi o ne through .tie ef sortq
bf Mr. Wilson watsthb introduction into this coun
try of some heardy -varieties, of ..rice; including
wvhat we nibwl faninfl yic 1Japmi'rice. This rice,
however, does not sepith be as much in favor as
was hoped for it' *s o ears back. .It: sinee d to
ripen more slowly and to -reach 'the harvesting
season at a period wheni there':'ar severe storms
in'this state and atanding rice would be very liable
to storm injuryb i e grains were short and
round and looked rpore like barley than thye hand
some, long grams . q r re I*n called -.Hondu
ras ric. .There remain lwever,, very manye
problemis tp bei l fi lustry just' as
there remain very many instthe:cane indhstry, I:tI
some such solutionsre ..ac ed by gaua, a.
aice movemen iand odii `'t oiie jump,. as many
'would suppose.. , , --' ; .
r .'ha "the -; , . pxpeie"-s' dis ar
f fber and that fools will. lear in no ther. :, Itis
:pity .for'k. agncuitu' f' of:-today . v,.to
." } -.piti every" l' "- I" aMt' stors before he
shall learn how to. reich success iand:inatt tito
ditioins aretss gdotoday iiat ?tho&oe (4
-l Aexclude from considerat~ih:the exk ea e:tf
rs, are pt " i4 now ata
than for eltl nd.i~i~os iiade in management
litt more serioUs lt,.tswlts, uaw than ever bEN
.Agricuil t fri yeaf iha":ien thought o
insuff'ciently remunerative to justify menrof
bilJty contin)Jtt 'fd h,,~Ie great states of the
West and in fact nearly everywhere in the federal
finin,,we: cannowt find en of great, , aility' in
Sriqulture, wh.o tregat;their., husinesp as pn nxact
Sscience.and :they have solved~ the:problemn as;. to
ho :to mil e;l iit. d ifN.dstry remunerative.
i ,gtid tO:haye beeua -aotcrate ope-and it. .shows
t thit, l ofmodea'grietlt ure,-.
- So naify eho ritie t1.,ti e nry and gone
famous spot, Bay Adam, and .he takes
*fithi'hm im brass band 'and: this for
many rtasonsdh piepa.if n mrig wlic I
that-he'sa lover' To ir d le. ...
ieavtiifgea &feald 'lash iknd iy
Tmfrnmg ion the trim loai li, '' rdth
o.?the pride of *'th& ayou Cook sec
;tond aptasi .Skriuince' $e ib ·d
,ohn Briaer i 'g o and t'Bi'
Dillon at th tthrottleiv jvM. aruso
liegan his' journey in utimpany with 'hls'.
excellent:band,: com ipo.sed of the 'fbbw.
-ng. gentjemen;i-V'~ lirc  hq4ýt'. st
6rbetist and 1eaderp; aeb Ls coller,
sizgd 'cornetiit .Loui Ctebstina 'first
cornetist; A dy Brc >iaven, bar.ytone;
Sidn~y Dinkel, bass; Jo : .Carson,. snae
drum; Af:. Millieut, :. st alto; :Geo.
Mische, second alto; Jas. Gregan bass
dram; Auaitf nRomn i ro, first tenor.
A stop. wa `mad0 aSt..the Cotij thpuse
and the- "Gazette : epjoyed::. a.n. im
promptu seresnade,: Viek Fisher,:rendý
ered several-cbrnet solbas `Mr, Fischer
is par excellence e master of the in
strument upon whfch h perfor js, all
the more credit beingdi1am-'iby rea
son of the fiiat that h lis fingerless on
the hand. he ises on the pistb.n-.k)yes.
of the corn t..,, .. 1
Needle. isay,1the -ops, ienjpyed
themselves both on ani 04 14*w atet,
returning hoife t8 ib leae
ant rep eoic p J,. p.
Ca.imreagi; -Caius - atod .-ring-. the.
samie band-a4tt i do: e
............ . .......,:
A Sou ther Fan Boy's: SuCcess.
ýSelnhio t aniygood i rtles'; Inr the.
Gazette encoredial yoilt men to
stay n the `f1 fI tlitight I wou t.
write any expiriece ssayoung famnn
a iotf tJ and
't i-.'" /i'":;ý
:·- ' r
s ýý to,'ý'ý`ýrý ý .ý1:*ý"ý,ý_
to tgrea ciies that pYe seems t1 be trans- tl
porting itself to the ci.ties ad those who are left
in -the- country are; now beginning to reap their re
wdrd in the high 'prices that are'prevailiiig gener- O
ally for the products "of the 'pil. While sugar b
does seem an exception to this'rIle, yet rice, and n
:corn, ,the great cereal crops, are both bringing re
munerative-prices and the high prices prevailing
in the markets for practically every agricultural v
~iroduct must necessarily have their beneficial u
effect upon the welfare of the producer.
To this .wonderful advancement in agriculture
and to this great softening of the rough edges of
agricultural life by promoting in every direction t
the use 6ofiechanricil devices,"driven by animal, c
steam and gasoline power, nothing has attributed *
more than the works of the experiment stations
throughout,< the.. .United States. . .The whole
force constitutes practically an army of well edu
-cated meh; thoroughly informed iii the spetialties
iin which t.iey, areengaged and all interested di- d
rectly and- competitively by. 'their- own personal
ambitions in bringing about the best results that
are possible. ..Such. work as this has developed
the manufactdring,- commercial, transportation C
and banking interests of the country, as well as t
the various phases of so-called professional life.
Tn other words, agriculture ha' me p Ake con.
spicuous place among the industries of the coun
try, not because it employs so many persons, but
Ibecause those engaged in' 'it" are far better
I edated than such' persons were a' few decades
.go p.lgriculture is coming to be. :a profession,
mueh as chemistry, medicine or law.
Not niaheii ars' ago two-thirds of the people of
the 'United State' were engaged .in agriculture.
The civil war. withdrew so many hundreds '6f
thousands. of persons- from agriculture that those
remaining learned lhow to carry"o b agricultural
work with greatly reduced forces. The attrac
tions of city jife have drawn hundreds 'of- thous- i
ands.from the. pursuit of their youth and now Mr. L
James J. Hill, the..famous railroad man 'f th1
Northwest, says that against two-thirds of the
people earning their living directly from the land
some years back, now not over one-third are en
gaged in so doing,, and this oitE-thia'of the"'much
abused class of agriculturis,, 4a4qsdýºtyest r pp
beeause of their lack of knowledge are now abused
because of 'the so-called exorbitant prices that
they are getting for their stap.e crops jf the land,
estimated : y: the. Seetary of Aultur tp
'amount to over eight ' milliotsof d4b r
for this year. -With wheat at $1.25 wibushel
~cornat about 80 cents, we can estimate what .,th
t Wd w ou ld b d of, our expeted r 'of o +4r
,gt j .llions of bushels of corn, six hundredl . nd
,,tns illionof se  els of wheat andeBlevyn"and
odnfoottleilliriralleli Ebfl.ttonw '* G isipng!
anPt1dfet' riatAfton te te-next, ý·- as m i ar
...These ,p • nI t ... .'i.in' "uý.,. a
been brought aboiby the wonder fl.. r '.of
Ga gressrman Hatch in,his itipsetet jdvocey~ntd.
T' 'f u esi ý ith 'h iowefamous esperiment:ats
1"t"iiw j1 Ytne .Wi' soni-the "sScrttary of.
e Agrideltre~·lhon sco'rgiany years. haS. been
&, hidhl ' thf r otan t post .under 'so' many
4%&&8ed@ thnidrktratjons, has aleo:'been -one of
p.t~m podro ',ftbrsin the, rebent deielop
spent'uo~gi r uieu in'the United Statd. Id tn is
c.~ o eAblot'He believe that we ought, Iso ;tp -
t ti~l Mi~arV Cobtfu'rn: of the Kansas ,St1te< Board
ci' ~vboe,,yho has been devoting himself to
;prplmotion and the good of agriculture with all
0" of his great ability, energy and integrity until his
Sname:hgi become 'sa household word thro~tiglr o
e the edtir younitry. ;,r.ethry C,,ur9 .,'.t;g d
l thie Appointment by the governor of bis ,state as
Siej3tg9; o'rei~resent his state in Washington, -be
t lieving ashe did tha he. could do more good to'
S:his people at homet.itan he d.'d b" tha advocacy
!. of thei interestoin Wdiui·i..:' ' ' I
Tl~ei immediate pplitation: ofall this to ~or agri
cultural conditions in. Lonuisiana :is-the fact: now
5 apparent to;alm6ist everyone, 'that it is only by in
tense agriculturthat we can win auaies ifiour
fe ife's indqsi;iI bttle. . .
I am the youngest, o a family qf six.
the pthers having become .disgusted
ith farm life are seeking 'their for
tunes rn other' channels.
My fatter being for pe tore
main on the farm gaeheme morelitierty
·tkaihe did the rest, and this with the
.aa)y'good articles on' 'g{ing the boy
,c shaice", 'and the goodresults in my
case in proeiuring t.;ehf for which the
'eahts were intend hin my nmodest de
ge~ of succeiss give ise 'to this article.
Myl'father thinks the unwise course he
haspurane&t and many other farmers
ar'epursueing is driving boys to seek
not otly their fortunes. but actually a
living in other eallings. He has made,
a compact with me which haa proved a
great.blessing.to Bme and none thle less
recompensing him for the liberty hel
:gives me. I think a inmu larger pro
portion of boys would reiain on ifarlqs
if they were given the qpportunity.my
fatherbhas given, me. ,$ix years ago
he agreed to give me oine half of i mny
time; the other half lbelongin g 'to jhin
was spent in sehool.: Theifirst year I
-clothed myself; the second year I :paid
board at the rate o .$10 per "month,
making $60 per'year and :have paid thlat
ansunt since, He, gae me 10 acres of:
good land, a home, a cow and a pair of.
pigs to start with, and last, 'thoigh'rbtt
least, the privilege of reading ýlii' farts
journals and through these I have gain
ed most of myr knowledge. . consider
them the chief Instrumerntiof t ny suc
cess. I gave my horse, covw and pigs'
five acres of my land for past,; the.
other five were for crops. Knowing :v.r
stock had to live at a time, wheqn there,
was no pasture, I gave :to eachoneacre
of the five. remaining acres. 'Here., Js
where I got some good advice from
Prof. Maissey on `rotation to `bring
fertilzation I plted corni . sorghiim
and oat, :in m cn pI lanted cowneas
broads ='tiin my sorgh iai I plaited
wiuppoirw.il, ea ;M oats I foilowved:
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with cow peas broadcast: thq other .te
acres I planted one to cowpeas foraps
and the other in cottop so as to have
somie money. MIy acre in cotton was
'all that bohered .me.. Moter suggest
edthat I rent my .cow 'for day labor
and this. created my .firstrebellion. or
rather first privilege of ,that liberty
giyven me,, I wanted that .eow's.,milk
taken, ftro ay prospective pigs that
father said I. would have in May,.. so. I
kicked at letting my.cow go. I agreed
todo some- iloughing for old ,Uncle
Jerry, an old negro, to get him to hoe
for me.= I gave mother all the lbytter
fomin my, milk for the kiteben slops to
put;in my milk for.my two hogs, so I
gbtallong very well this way, .. . ;
At 'the -lose of the year I had 20 bar
olf o, crn,4geft,. bavip, fed 50 to my
horse, 15 tons of pgavine hay, and five
acres in turf oats for my stock- to graze
qn,.in mwiter. You know your advice
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that we keep something growing t
oitr land in inter.. The acre I plautet'
to cotton did not make :ev good oats
I.got three-quarters of a bale oI .*ottoz:
off this acre, but it. ga've me, more trou
bleithan the other four togeth't:r. The
next year I planted two ac:es , .arl,
corn, one to Irish potatu:o: and Ihre, to
cowpeas. broadcast. I iollo\wetl my
Irish potatoes with surghu:'a. my 'r
with peas troadcast n~i,: !: ow,(t. in .'ug
unt and sowed to oats it.: Ate'ab':.
Part of my rematrining ladtl was sown te
rape and winter vetch.
After paying all my ,xpense: hat,
year, to my great surprise and s;:'tsfec
tion I had $325 of my owul mone . . Nov.
came the year of thinkin:. I idav not
entered into details how I solki att,:"
and Irish potatoes and tha. I was now
15 years old and one of the most inte.
ested boys in farming. have e'els net.
With 2001 I bought a good horse ant:
wagon. 1 paid $25 to a iaun .:i:o :was
doing a great deal of haulin! for the
fertilizer accumulating in his barn dur
ing the fall and winter. 1 paid Unbh
Jerry $15 to help me haul 1.7l two horse
wagon loads of the very best fertilizer
out of that man's barn. , I considered
this the money back for my horse.' ' I
bought five tons of commercial lime and
plowed everyting alter. The, fer.iii
ter was also bitadreuted.'
Let me tell you something that did a
boy's beart good. Our farmers insti
tute man said to fathez. "Mr.' Liddell,
you irs the most no prog res~ ve mpp .i.,
,your section. +You are on the right.
track." He was t'alking about my five
acres. I was proud of that, Fathel
was proud of its being his boy, b il
think he should rather that man had
left thinking of it us his'rop.'' i,began
to think I was going to be a farmer. I
apent pch~ , p" rrespon@ig,. with
eadiitýº ifitit I had are hcres
of lapd as good as Mr. Anybody's. I
ai 10 hogsp wuoIt that :weighed 250
pounds each at 7 cents. I went to the
Obi reite Fai and;.bou.gt a pair of
pigs for $50 eachb.
4 pst.ytar (1R08) was my bumper
crop year. I raised i00 bushels of corn
on two acres, four baes of long-staple
cotton ona'twarrel.mia , yetSI of
l~i tto;l flowed by 500 bushels
of stiitan y i- ll 6tb'd iel'I' itera
got Uncle Jerry hired this eai. He
east me $150. This p growI'ntoo long
for a boy, but one word toare and I will
Sloa I e ee thfargs I as going to
I wpt tkba a nty 'a teV
I wavit l fb.t lt orb a it I ai
if I capn ad a girl
indl b r1 6:i1k1 %ofigatp f lm be
,ame finr talsad trakt sever n pra, ..
"i1 sh,ha, tgomt of 8, ..1 ,i
f igmen-ts thisy er.W dat d iip Lu .
o mra c,e raks e and prres, a
shalle savnend Iih ater ar t o jif , .
mainder on.fertil;lpt a nO g o~'.^Wr -. ..
., should f tte in juqtice to fathrm tict.
ae hascqrrieu sr ii~srance, from. theon
time I was 10 years old untidl1st years,
six years in all.ro
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The man behind-the hoe is, more ihz. rt.
Sportant than the plan, behind the g. *,
SIt is the farmer that keeps thiuijp -
s tirred up that iraises the bigge'st crops::, -
Very fine flower seeds can be easily,;:.
anc# e.enly sown by the use of a dredge.;.
SThere is little expectation that the :
rJuly and August sun will melt. the ice :
I t's sia Ii of ,a har'ye 1for f et
famriily when the.wife carries the stove
amd thiehusbifti the pipe.
e .Som, .men~a,n ry a girl,beequse s.e l
SIs.a great.talkerr:i,Better get a talki.ng
. machine; you~cit .op it.when yan get-..
tired, , , , .-. , , . . . .:. .
Ir Don't leavre aui'a fstiekinl "wheie- -
Y some dne wil' fall on it; or'sticksy'thes,
t hatchets or tools overhead to fall and :
t hurt some one.: ' +
d Plant trees, plans flowers, plant :
Le ropes, plant smiles, plant gqod leed, d
Severy day, and'above all plant tl~.he+t:
in the way of riglit doing.
o Here.is.-the most approved'methobf f., -
I treating seed potatoes' to,prevent. a..i
a scabby'crop: ' Soak the whole.seed. for,.
-I two hours in1.a mixture of one-halfpirt.' .:
Ly of;formalin (ofteu calle4 formaldehyde) .,'. .
e and ftlften gallons of cold water; dry :
e .tae seed,cut, and plant in -ground that- 'i
e Ihads not recefitle grown potatoes, .n , an "