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Louisiana Chautauqua Farmers Meet at Ruston
At Ruston a Farmers Institute gathered led by Major J. G. Lee to boost elementary agriculture in schools. Col. A. T. Prescott praised agrarian education while W. L. Foster urged swine improvements and Captain H. W. McLeod outlined cotton policy for home supplies. Prof. R. L. Hines and W. S. May spoke on farming education and dairying, with John Dymond on sugar cane progress and Prof. W. W. Clendenin on Louisiana soils and ant hills.
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Louisiana
Ruston
J. G. Lee
Farmers’ Institute
Col
A. T. Prescott
Ruston Industrial College
Col. Prescott
W.L. Foster
Shreveport
South
Foster
Union
Gulf States
H.W. McLeod
Caldwell Parish
Normal School
Natchitoches
Union of Farmers
Hines
W.S. May
May
John Dymond
W. W. Clendenin
State Experiment Station
Clendenin
Prof
Parish
Caddo
W. C. Stubbs
Lee
Stubbs
Farmerville
Union Parish