Farmers Waking Up

Tlie Louisiana Agricultural society has appointed a coanrnittee to wait on Governor Foster and request him to cali a road convention in New Orleans at an early day. Commenting on this, the New Orleans Tirnes-Deraocrat says: We are glad to see the farmers taking hold of this matter of better roads. Heretofore nearly all the agitation iu their favor has been by the bicyclists. While they aro interested - for good roads mean better, longcr and pleasanter rides for them - their interest is not one-tenth that of the farmers. It is a mere pleasure with them; with the farmers it is a question of dollars and cents. The extra cost of hanling to market in conseqijence of. the .thoroughly bad and often iinpassable roads with which Louisiana is afñicted often represents the difference between profit and loss on a erop. The cost of hauling is increased 10 per ceut, and there is another 10 per cent to be added for the supplies bronght back to the farm. With good roads the Lonisiana farmer 's profit on his erop would be increased 20 per cent over what he is likely to get today, and in many cases even more, and many farmers who now find at the end of the year that thcy have not made a cent and that the cost of raisii;g their crops has swallowed up every dollar ;hcse crops have brought theru, would flnd a handsome ■ balance left. A road congress will not build roads, j but it will start ilic agitation in their j favor. It will havo its iufluence on the legislatura at its next sessiou and assure the passage of a good road luw.