New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-27
i CURTO sTTy .gA-D q LESSON.

One of the greatest faults of our Southern
planters is neglect of stock, of fowls, the rails
ing of produce, etc. In the immediate vicinity
of this city, we have seen COWS and horses
belonging to respectable planters, and in their
daily use, which would, in other sections,
scarcely obtain begrudged admission to the
lanyard. We really do not see why such should
continue to be the case, and even if our stock
cannot surpass, we see no reason why it should
not at least equal, that of Mississippi and Ten
nessee.
To prove the Justice of our ideas, we need only
request our planters and those OF adjacent
states, to see a curiosity and learn lesson by
paying a visit to the place of Mr.. Felix Ducayet'
upon the Bayou St. John Road, just beyond the
| bridge They would see something there winch
| would astonish them We confess an examlna-
ton of the details Of his place and stock : TOOK
the starch out of our Kentucky pride; and we
felt compelled, even in our Dragging, to fall
back upon Henry Clay's heifers and Mr.. Black
burns horses
We had no idea of such place, so stocked, III
the immediate vicinity of Neworleans. There
is scarcely living breed of chickens which does
not cackle, or o brood of ducks which does not
gable, upon his place; and fat geese waddle in
obese dignity, and plump, grand. vain turkeys
gobble, upon every foot of his grounds
They live in the highest luxury of the nobility
| Of birds There are the magnificent Cochin
Chinas. looking almost as large and proud as
young eagles, but so fat and plump as to create
| a queer sensation Of greediness in the stomach
of any epicure. There are the Shanghais, so
| fierce proud, defiant, that any epicure would
feel his {" entrails of compassion stronger than
his stomach for fowl; and he could not fail to adj
mire them, all, red, buff, black and white.
There are the Bramah Pootras Cast India
fowl strutting in proud equality in the neigh
borhood of their Chinese contemporaries, and
looking as though they were the only birds
worthy to dignity the Brahmin's sacrifcial rites,
Then, there are the Ialays; then, the Black
| Spanish, everlasting layers, for whom the Yam
KEGS spring-trap is an unnecessary invention.
| Then, there are the magnificent white Dorkings,
birds that would have been an ornament even
in Eden. Again, there are the Seibreitch and
African bantams, and most beautiful fowls they
are.
| OF Geese, Mr., Ducayet has the Hong Kong,
White China, and White Bremen.
His arrangements for his chickens, and geese,
and ducks (of whom some are splendid Muscovy
and Polands) are perfect in every detail, and
more curious than anything in museum
Every species has its yard its series of nests its
house for nights rest, etc. Ordinary breeds of
good American hens, geese, ducks and turkeys,
| travel at large upon his grounds, but all have
| their special quarters, perfectly arranged, and
two OF three hundred of them Oh roost is a Gu
| rious sight.
| OF hogs, Mr.. D. has the portly Middlesex
grunter, the plump Essex, the oily Berkshire,
the aristocratic Bedford porker, the beautiful
little Mackays, the Suffolk, the Chinese, etc.
| Their quarters are most excellently arranged.
| We were astonished, in view of their fine condi-
| ton, to learn that they were fed upon nothing
but grass. Our Kentucky prejudices are too
| strong for us not to suspect that they would be
| even better with an occasional change of diet,
giving them corn.
| OF the other stock of Mr.. d. we have but little
opportunity to speak. For this latitude, it is
unusually good By the way, Mr.. Ducayet has
obtained his hens, geese, and stock, chiefly from
that distinguished agriculturist, Geo. p. Burn
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prominence to this notice 1t is no puff not even
| reference to any advertisement Too many of
our Southern gentlemen hastily conclude that
good stock in the South is a fiction and impossi-
bility, and Mr. Ducayet's place is an unanswer-
able and practical REPUTATION of their views 1t
is an No. agricultural school for them, and
on his grounds they will drop some of their an
tiquated, old fashioned prejudices Stock and
fowls can be raised in the South successfully.
MIR. Ducayet demonstrates this, and we hope to
see some of his magnificent native and foreign
breeds propagated throughout this section.