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VO UME XLIII. DONALD&SONVLLE. LA.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 18, 191.f NUMBER 1i

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. Office in Houmas street, betweenIberville street and Crescent Place. Tele-

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GOSPEL OF D 000 RBOSl, SEASON'S FIRST ATTRACTION, IOTTON lROP 315,000 BALESI CAUSES OF SHORT CROPS.Great Forward Steps Taken in Move-

ment for Permanent Highways byParishes of This Section DuringRecent Months-St. James inLine.

(By Charles E. Schwing, in Plaque--mine Champion.)

Those who have not already learn-ed of the action of the people of theeast bank in St. James parish willbe interested to know that on Tues-day," Oct. 7, a road tax was voted,which means that the progressiveand far-seeing citizenship of thatsplendid parish have determined byan overwhelming majority to graveltheir roads, extending from the As-cension to the St. John parish lines.

A letter addressed to me and writ-ten by Sheritf Jos. B. Dornier, ofSt. James, who has taken a most'commendable and advanced positionin the matter of permanent roadadvocacy, says:

"I am happy to be able to adviseyou that the east bank of St. Jameshas placed itself in the good roadscolumn by an overwhelming majority.Here are the figures: For, 249 votes,representing $240,043.54; against, 25votes, representing 458,221.25; ma-jority, 224 votes, representing $181,-827.29. I wish to thank you for thehelp tendered us."

T2o illustrate what can be accom-plished in this very important mat-ter of road building, which is so nec-essary for the industrial advance-ment of the state, it might not beamiss to recall the fact that withinless time than one year provision hasbeen made in the parishes of Ascen-sion, Assumption, Lafourche, St.James and Iberville for the immedi-ate construction of dne hundred andfifty miles of gravel -roads. Ibervillehas about thirty miles 'built already.A tax has been voted in the fourthand fifth wards for 'the building ofthirty 'miles more. Ascension has

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voted a tax to gravel all its roads on tthe west bank, that is, the roads Efrom the Iberville to the St. James 1parish lines and from Donaldsonville ion both sides of Bayou Lafourche tothe Assumption line, about twenty-six miles. Assumption has alreadybegun actual construction of its pro-posed fifty miles of gravel roadsfrom Ascension to Lafourche. Thelatter parish, only a few days ago,ordered seven miles of gravel roads jbuilt from the Assumption line toThibodaux. Now St. James has act-ed, and by an overwhelming major-ity has decided to construct somethirty-odd miles of gravel roads. Soit will be seen that since lastApril, when the first definite step inthis movement was taken by Ascen-sion's wide-awake people in voting atax4 or rather voting for an invest-ment in permanent roads, provisionhas been made in the following par-ishes as follows: Assumption, 50miles; Ascension, 26 miles; Iberville(two districts), 36 miles; Lafourche,7 miles, and St. James, 30 miles.Total, 149 miles.

This means that within anotheryear this section of Louisiana shouldbe blessed with having these roads,now actually provided for, entirelycompleted and in use. It means thatwe should have a gravel road ex-tending from the West Baton Rougeparish line to Thibodaux, and fromthe Ascension line to St. John parishon the east -bank. As soon as theseIroads are completed and are in use,if not before, the enlightened citizen-ship and forward-looking people ofthe parishes of St. John and St.Charles will undoubtedly investigatethe investment value of building per-manent roads and will arrive at thesam Irresistible dclusion that all

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"A Man's Game" to be Seen at (Grand Theatre Tuesday Night,with Estha Williams in LeadingRole, Supported by Capable Com-

pany.

Manager Louis Boston takes pleas-ure in announcing the opening of thelocal theatrical season next Tuesday,Oct. 21, when Estha Williams, an ar-tiste of rare ability, capably support-ed by Edwin Walter and a well-bal-anced cast, will appear at the GrandTheatre in Owen Davis' masterpiece,"A Man's Game." This is the sec-ond year of this notable production,and the same excellent company thatscored such a remarkable hit lastseason has been re-engaged and willbe seen here.

The story of "A Man's Game" isone of deep heart interest, andabounds in scenes of vivid realism

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and episodes of powerful dramaticstrength, intermixed with refreshingcomedy furnished by unconventionaland original characters. The playpleases as well as appeals.

Among the many flattering crit-icisms of the production, the NewOrleans Times-Democrat has this tosay:" 'A Man's Game,' presented last

night at the Dauphine Theatre, is aproduction that pleased a large audi-ence. It is a drama with situationsso tense that a whisper would soundstartling. In the main the situationscenter around Miss Estha Williamsas Nance Mayo, who, in the story, de-serteid her husband and child so thatshe might roam the world and liveas an adventuress. The scenes ofthe play are laid in a western town.According to the story, Dan Mayoleft New York after his wife haddeserted him and their little baby,and by paying strict attention to agambling and saloon business heprospered, finally becoming mayor ofSilver City. He sent the daughter

to live with a widow and gave her aevery advantage of education and bItravel. At the time the daughter re-turns, Mayo is a candidate for a ccongressional nomination and his op-ponent tries to buy him off. By Icaccident the competitor meets Nance cMayo, and from her learns the his- ltory of her former husband. Mayoreally believes his wife is dead and cwhen she suddenly comes into his Ipresence, and in an intoxicated con- tdition at that, his life is changed andfor a time his political adversary 1gets the upper hand. The strongestsituations come in the last act, where cthe wife pleads with her husband tobe allowed to see her daughter. Inthis act Miss Williams appears as altdrunken woman, but with motherlyinstincts left. She meets thy widowwho has reared her daughter, and, ionly as a drunken woman can, hurlsdefiance at her. She laughs andwails at almost one and the same Ibreath.

"Due to her terrible life, she is 1supposed to have a weakness of theheart, and she works herself Into apitc'h of excitement that seems sorealistic that when she falls in ex-haustion it seems most natural.When she meets her husband and de-mands of him the right to see herdaughter, she again displays a greatrange of ability in acting. Finallythe daughter herself comes on thescene and she asks the reason of thewoman's weeping. After severaltense situations, the mother tells herdaughter that she knew her mother.She describes the best side. Thecurtain falls with the mother embrac-ing her daughter, about to leave for-ever, but never by word or action be-traying her identity. While the playmust of necessity deal with the so-cial evil, the lines are clean and un-objectionable."

Condition Estimated at 88 Per Centin Quarterly Report of State De-partment of Agriculture-CornCrop 32,000,000 Bushels--Consid-erable Damage Caused by Rain.

Louisiana's cotton crop for 1913 Isestimated at 375,000 bales and thecorn crop at 32,000,000 bushels byE. O. Bruner, commissioner of agri-cullure4 in his quarterly report is-sued Oct. 10, based upon the reportsof assessors of the different parish-es.

"The outlook for crops all over thestate about six weeks, ago bade fairto be the best in years," says Com-missioner Bruner, "but the incessantrains of September have deterioratedsome of them very much. As a sum-mary we give the following:

"Fifty-two parishes reported. Forty-four reporting on the cotton cropclaim that it is 88 2-11 per cent, com-pared with last year;: forty-three giv-inz the bales expected to be made as314,900.

"From other souses of informa-tion and allowing for the parishes notreporting their last year's crop, andalso allowing for sa4e little pessi-mism among reportefs, we place thecrop this year at 375,000 bales.

"Fifty-two parishes reported thecorn crop 111 3-4 pericent, and forty-three, besides giving the percentagecompared to last year, .also answerour question for bushels, and claimthey will make 23,197,218. Add tothis 8,166,187 bushels,, which is thecrop made by the parishes last yearthat are not reporting:sow, with sameratio of increased perc•entage, that is11 3-4, a total of 31,363,405 bushels issecured, hence we feel' safe in placingthe corn crop at 32,000,000 bushels.

"Though disappointing to us, yetIan increase over last year of moretLan 7,000,000 bushel~sinotwithstand-ing the bad season, Shows that ourcorn outlock is looDmng up, and we

are destined in the near future toU

be a great corn state. no"Twenty-one pariihes place the rice sib

crcp at 105 per cent. m."Forty-two parishes place sugar yE

cane at 106 5-6 per cent, while ten toof the regular sugar parishes claim foit is 124. gc

"Forty-eight parishes place the pea iscrop at 93 3-5 per cent. ye

"Fifty parishes claim for sweet po- letatoes 101 7-8 per cent. di

"Forty-six parishes claim for the ti'hay crop 93 3-5 per cent. ti

"St. James claims for the tobacco fecrop 150 per cent. s1

"Union, the only other parish u;claiming to make any' tobacco, places stthe crop at 50 per cent. fr

"Seven parishes report the orarge b:crop at 109 2-7 per cent, though the s]great orange parish, Plaquemines, a,places the crop at 75 per cent. ti

"Forty-two parishes report Septem- s,ber as unfavorable. a

"Ten parishes report September as iifavorable. u

"Thirty-six parishes report a dam- tiage of 23 1-5 per cent to cotton. d

"Twenty-five parishes report a pdamage of 13 6-7 per cent to corn. L

"Five parishes report damage tocane. it

"Eighteen parishes report a good eseason for cane. F

"Fourteen parishes report damage Eto rice. c

"Thirty-two parishes report boll tweevil. t

"Seven parishes report no weevil tor little damage from them."

The problem of marketing is thebiggest business proposition of anyagle or nation, and one that will re-quire the combined efforts of all theagencies of civilization to solve.

Our printing has pleased hundreds.

Failures in Late Years Due to Ne-glect of Drainage and Abuse ofLand by Unwise Cultural Meth-ods-How Productivity of SoilCan be Increased.

(ii-y W. J. J. Pecquet, St. Patrick,La., in Modern Sugar Planter.)

iRight at the present time, whenour sugar industry is faced with con-ditions never before encountered, itseems to me that much good may ac-crue from an interchange of ideasamong the sugar planters throughthe columns of their publication.

This has led to my desiring to setforth a few facts as I see them, thatbear on the productive capabilities ofour cane lands, and in dealing there-on in this letter I am making bold tosay what I think is the trouble onmany of our sugar plantations andattempting to explain why there wereso many failures in crops of lateyears.

First of all causes for short cropsis neglect of drainage. Second, isthe abuse of land by planting caneafter cane. And in connection withthe latter, there is the wild hurry ofplanting so as to be able to say, "Iplanted my cane cheaper than myneighbors." This fault of rushingthings through to hurried completionis also to be laid against most otherwork about the plantation, withoutlooking at conditions and results.In the maintenance of drainage a

large number of sugar planters willspend lots of money every year dig-ging ditches that I call good quarterdrains, which are not over one footbelow the ground's surface and arevery often placed more than an acreapart in sandy and black lands. Asfor the outlet in the woods back ofthe cultivated fields, it is looked af-ter maybe once in ten years. Andyet you will find such negligent )ant-ers surprised they can not raisegood pea vines, which is the back-bone of the sugar plantation.

Now, my idea of it is to first seethat the outlets are always keptclear; that ditches be at least threefeet deep, in sandy land placed abouttwo-thirds of an acre apart, and inblack land about a half-acre apart,with good quarter drains where theyshould be across the rows.

About the land, you will hear someplanters say, "I have land that hasnot had corn in it for 18 or 20 years,and the last crop I planted gave 30tons to the acre." But you do nothear that planter tell how much 7and 10-ton cane he reaped fromthat particular ground during its suc-cessioning period.

Now, my idea is that with sugar

erally alt LL shalf to. cane, a fourth to' corn and•a fourth to solid peavines. By sow-ing the pease in early May, the vinescan be plowed under in August, whichwill give plenty of time for them torot and make the ground ready toplant cane in October. By this divi-sion of the plantations into fourths,the corn (with pease) is planted af-ter the stubble and should make theplantation's feed if cultivated prop-erly; the solid growth of pea vinesthen follow the corn.

Some may say, "Why not plant thesolid pease after the stubbles and youwon't have to fertilize the corn?"The answer to that is, if you plantcorn after the solid pease the cornwill grow so rank as to prevent theproper growth of the pea vines onthe land, or if they do grow 4heywill be so late as to do little gek tothe land for its reception of thefollowing plant cane crop. Anotherthing is that if you have to pullyour corn before it is ripe, so as toprepare the land for cane, you arestoring grain in an unsafe condition,which is often the cause of mulesdying the next year. Also with thepea vines, you can not wait for themto get in the best state for haymak-ing, and a house full of mouldy hayis the result-Just so much poison forthe mules.

In setting forth these ideas, oneis apt to hear planters say it is allstuff; that they cannot afford to losetwo years' cane productivity of anyof the land. To this it may be an-swered that this procedure involvesno loss, because by following a divi-sion of fourths on the plantations amore uniform crop is made everyyear, which costs a great deal lessto cultivate. Further, it will befound there is more surety of makinggood stubble crops, for in the winteris the time you will need to haveyour land good and warm, such as isled to by its improved physical con-dition. The use of commercial fer-tilizers alone is not going to bringthis better ground condition, for thefertilizer is applied only in thespring, after the stubble crop comesup, and very often the weather issuch that no benefit at all is securedfrom the fertilizer. Again, the stub-ble is apt to come up earlier in thespring, and this means the laying byof that crop soon, so that when thetime comes to put seed down theseed will be ripe, meaning betterseed for spring planting; fall plant-ings, also, will be improved by theuse of the riper seed. When imma-ture cane is planted in the fall or putdown in the windrow for springplanting, the result is often a lot ofland planted and yet no crop.

As regards planting of cane, thereis unfortunately not enough pains tak-en in opening the rows, and manyplanters are inclined to not put inenough seed. The rows ought to beopened wider and smoother than is

I ordinarily the case on numerous plan-tations, so the cane could lay well on

I the ground and be covered with asmall one-horse plow backed up by atwo-mule plow, with middles openede right behind the planting. WithY drains opened the way cane is plant-

Sed now, the rows are opened withe an ordinary middle splitter, or mold-

board as some call it. This leaves

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