The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1870-03-23

NVN Dun 44s
Fruits
Peaches, apples pears, plums figs crau,s ouinc
oachoerries Strawberries, berries MAY apple per
summon, May haw and papaw Oranges NAV he .pc
10 some extent in the southern part of the
iu' Mite attention is paid 10 fruit culture,
Domestic Animals.
sANe' h0Fses' mules jacks and jennies, sheep hogs
anu goats.
Domestic Fowls
rnrAes chickens ducks guinea fowls and pea
itrcl' 'oa buffalo pike, white eat sac ait or white
perch' mihish or choupque soft shell turtle and in
some Oh the bayous the finest in great abundance
Wild Animals
Deer bear, panther, opossum, raccoon rabbit. wild
cat fox, otter, and squirrel
Wild Game
VIVA turkeys, ducks, geese, brant papabots snpe par
trses prairie chickens, reed birds grosbec wood cock
rice Birds and robbins.
Domestic AaiZnais-Homa Prices
Creole horses, $40 500 formerly $40 to ss; bceves
si2 TO So milch cows $50 S3O sheep 81 so 10 So
peei III Inc market, , TO 8 4 pound
Domestic Fowls-Home Prices.
'oopers 81 30; hen turkeys IS cents to ST. geese 81
apair Chickens, 81 80 to So dozen ducks % cents:
Wild ducks ~ to p cents; eggs 10 cents in summer
Farm Crops and Various Articles-Heune
Prioes
Corn 10 cents down to % cants a bushel butter 40
cents in winter 5 in summer sweet potatos 40 o
~ cents bushel Irish Potatoes 81 busheI cypress
lumber SO to $40 thousand feet cypress shingles S.
10 ss fhousand bricks, $40 to sl2-can be made at S.
fencing pieux and posts $50 $50 thousand t take
pleuS anu one post TO pannel of fencing feet in
length, and nearly 1000 to nile)
Cattle, Horses, etc.-Number
The number of cattle in St Landry in the year 1862
estimated at $4,000 head; horses, l5o00 mules. $500
sheep, 3Coo; number of aocs large, but not known
Various Items of Interest
Cattle, horses, sheep, and mules in St Landry, are
healthy
No hog cholera, blind staggers, charbon or bloody
murrain.
One white man cultivate % acres of corn, or lO
There are ten or twelve moving machines owned in
ST. Landry, yearly employed in cutting hay on the
ries Yearly moving improves the native grasses and
improves the hay
Creole horses are generally used cuvating the crops
of the parish since1he war
PAR OF Creole horses break uy the ground and
one creole horse saltivate it,
About $1,000 bales of is the largest crop eyel
made in the parish
In Opelosas there about six physicians TO otOO in
habans; pthe parish usive of Opeousas ls ply 81
to 2iOOo
Good lands rent Opelousas at from 50 to .
acre. one third of tho corn and one fourth Of th
cotton.
Bees do well in St. Landry.
There is good material fOr bricks in all parts of til
parish.
Pine lumber at the mills in the upper part of tn
parish sells at $40 dollars thousand Cypress lumber
brought from the Atehaftlaya mills and pieux from n
| Atchafalaya and the Mermentau o
In digging wells at FlatTowp they strike sand stone.
some places they strike salt water
There have been two earthquakes in st. Landry On
in ls3 the other in January 1870 The former was tn
! heaviest
Tho .-A1sn a,, sva~daa hss>-h..
featuring industry viii find in this parish all the mater
ais required in such business The upeo gum makes tn
best of wooden ware
The vote of ST. Landry is about $780, nearly equal
divided between white ant black
Children and Young People
The num~r of persons white and black in this par
sh between the ages of and n years. amounts to $3.50
classified as follows: White .aIas 2saa females 23l4
tota io'' eoored males, 1923, females l7 total 354s
ST Landry concluded next week