The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-06
Louisiana Soil a Mine of Wealth.

Our old friend, Daniel bennett, ba
recently delivered an Address on I'm
migration and the Louisiana Question
before the Southern Historical Societ,
of New Orleans, from which We eleal
the following:
Strangers who know something O
clay and gravel hills, rocky fields anG
barren plains, of fields locked I'D six O,
eight months of the year in SHOWS, and
ice, and frosts, may we'll be amazed to
hear Louisianians say there is no mon.
ey IN Louisiana soil-no money in ST.
gar, cotton, tobacco, rice or other crops
grown in this State.
Is there no money in an acre of land
o q which a good husbandman NAV
make from half a ton to ton of sugar
and from two to three barrels of mo.
lasses besides3
Is there no money in an acre of land
that may produce a ton or more Of
clean rice7
No money in lands that may produce
from three to five hundred pounds of
INT cotton and twice that amount of
cotton seed, when in New England
they say that if they could produce the
cotton seed without the lint thew
wonld consider it a profitable crop 2
No money in an acre of land on
winch two crops, and three or four tons
Of hay, may be made, at cost of less
than five dollars toni
No money in an acre of land from
which grass springs beautifully with.
'ut sowing the seed, and remains green
'ften from niue to ten months in the
,ear7
No money in an acre of land which
he pea crop, planted occasionally, at
10 expense above the profits of the
'rop, may render highly fertile thou
and successive years, and to the end
# timei
Nomoney in an acre of land which
AS produced a hundred successive
rops, without either mercantile or do.
nestle nanures, lands that NAV he
Laughed or cultivated from January
January, except in wet weather ?
No money in lands that may produce :
ountiful crops of sugar cane, cotton, :
'ce' tobacco, sweet and Irish potatoes, c
cas- beans, pumpkins, broom corn,
'rghum, castor oil beans, jute, ramie, {
Frow root, ginger, indigo, tea plant,
'mac' hops, pindars, sugar beets,
'elons, cabbages, turnips, onions, and
| kinds of garden vegetables in great 4
many kinds of a
9getables can be taken fresh from the r
'rden any day in the year7 . .
No money in lands that may produce, c
great abundance, nearly all fruits
higher attitudes, and many delicious -
OPTICAL fruits besides -
Several varieties of oranges, figs, |
apes, pears, the Chinese ounce, dew b'
rrles' blackberries, strawberries, so so
ums, cherries, almonds, pecans, wal Ii;
49, hickory nuts, mulberries, jujube,
rsimmons, and a list of wild fruits Of
ire or less importance And where. 4
ar the coast, with some protection WI
d care, bananas, pineapples, lemons, tn
les, the mespilus, citrons, shaddocks. r
d some other tropical fruits, NAV be trs
)duced La
T. .,,,. AL
IS there nothing to cheer the farmer .
ere cattle, cows, horses, mules, -
'ne' sheep, goats. turkeys, geese,
ks, chickens, pigeons, all domestic At
mails and fowls, ale thrifty, healthy
proliic7
there nothing to cheer the farmer "
ere the rural table may be crowned. '
IN some instances is crowned, with the the
ar'es, home-produced and of SUPER J
quailtles-where the farmer and his -
llY NAV feast nnor fo4 1c