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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1931
Page
5
An analysis of cottonseed use shows meal yields about 917.4 pounds per ton of seed crushed and explains the balance of hulls and oil. It discusses feeding value, digestibility, and the comparative efficiency of cottonseed meal versus whole seed for livestock, including the roles of protein, fats, and carbohydrates in farm feeds.
President Hoover demands an apology from William Gardiner, announces a committee to probe Navy League charges of navy reductions. The piece urges southern farmers to mix meat and hulls with their grains to cut costs, improve butter quality, and boost farm income through targeted feeding and selling quality meat, milk, and butter products.
C K Allen will formally open his campaign for the governorship at Alexandria on Thanksgiving Day. Preliminary speeches and tours have been made in company with Huey P Long preparatory to the opening of his campaign.
The U S Weather Bureau has leased a 1 acre tract near Shreveport to erect a weather radio station, with an approximate cost around 20000 dollars. A Colorado Springs man owns a goat with stumps for rear legs that walks runs and eats like a normal goat.
The piece argues for a southern farm policy in 1932 to cut cotton acreage, plant only pedigreed seed suited to soils, and follow a “Live at Home” program producing meat dairy eggs and vegetables. It urges shifting to feed crops and diversified outputs with improved storage and machinery use. It also shares a pig feeding experiment showing the value of balanced protein using shrimp bran and cottonseed meal.
The piece argues dairymen control their wages by selecting cow stock, calling cows a boss that determines pay. It urges firing a harsh boss by using cow testers to expose unfair caretaking, advocating hiring for productive cows and avoiding debt. The Progressive Furier-Luralist.
The Caddo Singing Convention announced a meeting in Belcher next Sunday. The public is invited and many singers are expected from other parishes of the state.
In Shreveport on November 23 Professor Mabel Campbell, dean of women at Centenary College, was chosen secretary of the Association of Deans of Women of Louisiana colleges and universities at the group’s meeting during the Louisiana Teachers’ Association convention in Baton Rouge. The organization plans to request a sectional minority be added to next year’s Louisiana Teachers’ Association program, according to Professor Campbell.
The author argues that deflation and inflation erode debt value, making debts rise in real terms. If money had been stabilized, each borrowed dollar would not require 1.43 dollars back in real goods, and current prices imply an $80 billion gain for lenders at workers’ expense, per C. V. Gregory via The Progressive Farmer Ruralist.
Governor Theo G Bilbo announces a Cotton Belt conference in Jackson Mississippi Monday to decide acreage reductions. Governor Parnell of Arkansas will be nominated as chairman. Bilbo and Parnell called the meeting jointly. Parnell favors the Long Plan.
Harry D. Wilson seeks reelection as commissioner of agriculture and faces no opposition after J. M. Baker of Crowley withdrew today. Wilson was appointed to a national agriculture committee meeting in Kansas City last week.
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