The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-03-13
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THE OPELOUsAS JOURNAL
OPELOUs4s, FRIDAY, MARCH is, 1874.
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always makes more than enough corn
to do him. His horses, mules and oxen
are always fat, the latter more s 70 than
any beeves slaughtered for this market.
His corn, the ears, is the largest raised
in this Reighborhood. Some think it a
peculiar kind, and it is in great demand
for seed, especially among these who
did not raise enough of any kind for
seed. The secret of his success IN rails
ing corn is, he prepares his land we'll,
plows deeper than most others he man
ures the corn hills with his surplus
cotton seed, and c~ultivates well. When
the corn is "laid by" every row Of it is
planted in COW peas, which is a good
and cheap fertilizer, and very profitable
as feed for stock. We know from ex-
perience that the heaviest cartridges in
thecountry are in and about Capt. Mont
gomery's field. Those killed there in
the same days hunt, are much heavier
than those killed in other places. Peas
is the cause. Capt. Montgomery has al
ready sold seven hundred bushels of
corn out of the last crop, at s~egenty-fve
cents per bushel, and the labOrers on his
place sold three or four hundred bush
els more, and are still selling. His en-
tire revenue comes from planting, and
it is sufficient to enable him and all in
his employ to live in plenty, to build
new fences and new houses all over his
large plantation. In addition, he has
just had built a fine large residence.
And the best of it is, he is even with the
world-owes no debts. The laborers on
Ills plantation, are thriftier than other
labOrers as their employer is thriftier
than other employers. There is no cry
for Maeat~and bread there; "plenty sits
smiling at the door, The secret con-
sistsin Capt. Montgomery's sound prac-
teal sense, economy, energy, industry,
and good management:
DARwIN's MONKEY BEAT.-Professor
Rudolph Mayer, of this town, has a pig
whose head and features, with the x
ception Of the ears and snout, are those
Of d human being. The ear are those
of n pig. The snout isneither pig nor
human, butts o genuine snout like that
of an elephant, hanging from the fore
head. The skull is evidently human,
having apparently the front and back
brain, which no ordinary pig has. The
face, eyes and mouth IRE 2alltlike the
human. The pig is about the size of a
rat, and, with sever other ordinary pigs
was taken from a SOW that was slaught-
cred for pork. 1t is certainly a curiosity
as it is, and would have been a greater
one had it been born into actual life. 1t
might have been taught to talk. The
hog that goes about with the circus, and
plays carils,s ETC., would have been no
where beside this human pig. The for
tunate owner of the person of this talk
ing pig with human eountenance, could
have made q fortune exhibiting it, far
greater than that of all the Rothsehilds'
combined. How near.he was to fortune
and missed it! If he had only waited
a few weeks longer he would now be the
possessor of the greatest living curiosity
the world has probably ever seen, It
costs nothing to see it now. Professor
Mayer has it in asmall jar OF alcohol. 1t
is worth seeing.
A MODEL FARMER.-Our old friend
Mr. j. B. CLARK, Of Plaquemine Brulee,
called on as this week. HerepOrts agri-
cultural operations unusually far sad-
vancediR his section. He has raised
plenty of corn and meat, both pork and
beef, to do him the entire year. He says
three Orfour Of his neighbors had forty
OF fifty large fat hogs, that would weigh
tgohundredto two hundred and seventy-
five pounds nett, f~0rsale. Hogs, weigh
from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred and seventy-fve pounds nett,
sold and offered for sale in his
neighborhood, at six, eight andten dol
lara per head 0neshog was sold there
last week for ten dollars, that yielded
the purchaser fifteen gallons of lard.
Though the times are hard, from Mr..
Clark statements, wejudgeP laquemine
Brulee is not in a starving condition.
Mr.. Clark has never bought any corn
for his W use since the war. Raising
q supply OF both corn and meat every
year, and always having q good garden.
he manages to oyercoIne Hard Times"
The residents of Plaquemine Brulee are
q thrifty people, and some OF orr other
farmers would DO well to pattern after
JAPANESE PEAs-SOo Bushels to the
Acre4Something New etc.-The adj
vertisement going the rounds of the pa
pers, of which the above is d part of the
startling head lines, might lead those
who know no better to think these peas
III deed something wonderful. We
some of them last year; and from
That crop decided to plant no more.
Those who want TO try them can get
seed from Mr.. 4. j. Lacey at Washing
ton. Some call them Peruvian beans,
and others California peas. They are
and horses and cattle much pre-
fer the common cow pea. Veryfew far
ngTs pfante0w peas here wlIiclFrequire
no cultivation suly the troable of plant
at the last blowing of corn and any
she WHO would give up the COW peD for
his japanese alias Peruvian alias Cali
.orfia variety, would be green.
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