Lincoln Parish Farmers at Home in Lincoln Parish
Joe Henry, a 55 year old farmer near Ruston, runs 240 acres with 100 plowed, 30 pastured, 100 in timber. He cuts cotton to 40 acres this year, grows soybeans sorghum oats and peas on oat stubble, and advocates sorghum as a reliable feed. He keeps 10–12 dairy cows and raises his own meat, plans registered Jersey stock, and supports soil building and pay as you go farming. A meeting at Ruston City Hall next Monday aims to form a parish wide cotton promotion group called Greater Consumption of Cotton Association for Lincoln parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. McKnight
Chamber of Commerce
Joe
Henry
America
Burl] Hood
C. H. Henry
Lum” Henry
Claiborne Parish
Joe Henry
Mr. Henry
Lincoln Parish
Mary Dye
Henrys
Balem Church
Ruston
Farm Board
South
Lowering Cotton Production Costs Per Pound
The Caldwell Watchman notes farmers should reduce cotton acres and cut costs per pound. It cites university data showing $8 per acre for balanced fertilizer boosted returns by $26, with cotton at 10 cents per pound. Lower unit costs via higher yields and fertilization can keep profits despite low prices.
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University Agronomist
Caldwell Watchman
Columbia, la
Farm Crops Need Good Square Meal
Southern agriculture leaders urge farmers to side-dress cotton and corn with quick-acting nitrogen this season. Reports show reduced fertilizer use, risking lower acre yields and higher costs per unit. Planters Press notes side-dressing is most effective about 45 days after planting, after chopping and before squaring.
Miss Margaret Burt Returns Home From Dodd College
Miss Margaret Burt of Simsboro has returned home for the summer vacation after attending school at Dodd College. She spent the term away from home and is now back with her family for the break.
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Margaret Burt
Simsboro
Dodd College
Cotton plans to organize Lincoln parish cotton unit
ruston chamber of commerce will discuss forming a Lincoln parish unit of the Louisiana Division of the Association for Increased Use of Cotton at a 7:30 p.m. meeting in the City Hall James Building. representatives from cotton circles will map local plans while by laws and officers are drafted in baton rouge and alexandria.
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Lincoln Parish
Louisiana
Association For
Ruston
Harry D. Wilson
Baton Rouge
McKnight
Canning Activity Continues in Lincoln Parish Canning
Lincoln Parish reports May canning totals exceed 4500 pints under Miss Sophia Stone’s home demonstration program. White residents contribute most, with 25 demonstrations, peas to cabbage. Black farmers add 1139 pints under F B Blossom. Small No 2 cans cost about 3.4 cents. carload cans arriving in Ruston will ease shortages. Canning to continue through summer as a major home demonstration effort aided by local schools, police jury, and Kiwanis club.
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Lincoln Parish
Miss Sophia Stone
Miss Stone
F. B. Blossom
Ruston
School Board
Police Jury
Ruston ‘Kiwanis Club
Faulk Jr Named to Louisiana Press Association Committee
C E Faulk Jr publisher of the Daily Leader and Rus ton Leader was named on the executive committee of the Louisiana Press Association by Mrs C L Brezeale president. The move follows the association's convention in Natchitoches and plans for next year. A meeting will be called soon to discuss implementation of the convention's program. Butterflies says a naturalist eat little, mutate them, and you may acquire wings.
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Brezevwle
Webster Parish canning program yields $594 cans of vegetables
Under the supervision of Mrs. Julia Cobbsey the Webster parish home demonstration agent, twenty one nearby communities aided the Minden canning plant which opened April 28 through the Minder Lions club effort. Vegetables canned include English peas cabbage corn beans and spinach.
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Julia Cobbsey
Webster Parish
Minden
Minder Lions Club
Simsboro Children Picnic At Meanoriad Virk
In Simsboro Sunday School change at the Baptist church led by Mrs Kautooutorved to Bielau and held a picnic at Meanoriad Virk. Eighteen class members aged seven to ten were guided by Mrs King and several helpers including Mrs J G Bowtie Mrs John May and Mrs Matthew May.
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Scho Chang
I Teat
Baptist Church of
Signsboro
Remarkable Results From Nitrate of Soda Fertilizer
Louisiana State University agronomist R A Wasson reports on demonstrations with 200 pounds per acre nitrate of soda. Across 1929 1930 cotton and corn trials in numerous parishes the technique raised seed cotton yields by about 448 to 474 pounds per acre and produced profits around 13 to 26 dollars per acre, despite cheap cotton prices. The program emphasizes five acre plots for accuracy and notes fertilizer cost versus per pound cotton production.
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R. A. Wasson
Agronomist
Louisian State University
Mr. Wasson
Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau
Cluvnal
No Dreuth This Year Weather Bureau Says No Dreuth
Weather Bureau chartmaker J B Kincer says there is no indication of a repetition of last year's drought due to widespread rain except the Northwest. January marked the driest month on record with improvements in February and March. April surpassed last year overall. Included notes mention March building expenditures in Donaldsonville rising 107 percent over 1830. Lost items plea for a surveying compass and chain belonging to Geo Knowl, Lincoln Parish tax assessor, never returned, asking owner to return it.
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J. B. Kincer
Chartemaker
Government Weather Bureau
Washington
Northwest
Donaldsonville
Geo Knowl
Lincoln Parish
Wilfrey
New Money Crop Seen In Dewberries
Dr. J. Miller of Louisiana State University outlines the potential dewberry as a new money crop for Louisiana. He notes Louisiana’s 1931 strawberry harvest near 8 million dollars, and estimates dewberries could yield 2 to 3 million annually. Dewberries currently grow wild along bayous and woods, are simple to cultivate, and would allow early market entry before northern rivals.
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Louisiana
J. ©. Miller
Department of Horticulture
Louisiana State University
Miller
North Carolina
Warning Issued On Cattle Disease By LSU Extension
An LSU extension division warning advises on cattle bloat treatment. It endorses drenches of turpentine in water with puncturing if needed to save the animal’s life, notes kerosene is harsher, and mentions form aldehyde in milk to halt fermentation and aid quick recovery.
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Lousiana University
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Chambers of Commerce
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F. J. Waldo
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C. E. Faulk, JR
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Weather Bureau
Mert Davis
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Mes
Tri-State
Lowislasa
Arhanom
Texas
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