The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-04
GRASS VS.. COTTON AND SUGAR.CANE.

e. RApIDEs PARISH, La FEB. =, 10 10.
Editor New Orleais Bulletin
My observations during q recent visit
this parish brought forcIbly to NY mind tn
very near future of a new speciality, for who
those high aliuyial lands are well adapted
Il and at the request Of a few personal friends
y with whose history for years | am acquainted
u aud whose business since the war led me t
l., silt and solve the great question OF the mo
r ment; "What viii pay on those lands !:
5 nee cotton planting has brought RUIN t
II many; whilst climatic influences have opera
tel against the cane planter.
?. la one instance (aud | believe II was oan.
{ craD the entire loss Of half he crop, b. tn
h sudden freeze On the -, 81 and 4tn OF Nc
t vember, when SamUo and York, in ,lcad @
e wind-rowing cane, attended his polil.t..l clubs
J. and the bal!oJ-b0Xes (sic.l
g The que. tion arlse~, 70 what use can tics,
0 vAluat lie and fertile l.nes be made to pay an
I annual income since cotton in this vicinity,
i three years III five, has proved a failure
3 | might SUM up this answer in . few lines
by suggesting to these landed proprietors
( to examine INFO the system and to note the
grass lands of Illinois, Indiana, OHIO and
kentucky, and Ike a lesson Ill The value CT
gti.ss and on grass In cora, cow peas
pea vine hay, tufnips and tubns in general
In wool, in fat beans, il mi ch COWS and
butter; III pork, chickens and eggs; III de-
helous pears and peaches; III honey. The
little buy bee feeds all seasons. Think OF
this in the frozen regions, We deniZens Of the
grlsshopper coautTy, that fraud Of frauds on
tie etnigrlut
TO note the many cases of shrewd sagacity
was indeed interlory appreciated by the
writer. Several Tex IN stock men, vi horse.
mules aud beef cattle, have abandoned the
so-caled Mosquito region OF the Lone Star
State, and III the past five years from grass
alone, have maize small fortune. Whilst
their most industrious and energetic neigh
bors with cotton on the brain" have
already made the "ceufesslon OF Judgment,
/ forced on them By their earlier teachings
and a stubborn pertinacity against the fate,
as clt ar Us the sua i'll the 1neridien.
When viii these cotton planters learn and |
be convinced that for years cotton planting has
been a lottery, with 10 ire blanks than prizes; !
when, with less labor and capital, and !
less exposure, they could have done 80
much better by permitting the natu-
III grass TO grow Spontaneously. This is
the natural growth aud by far the most
profitable and most ceft'>lz OF al prolncts,
AMI costs the least: goes to market indepeud-
ent of teams and HheelV and through mud
reads. This las been my eAp per ence the past
forty years.
practical farmer since loyhoo1, with
some reputation as al observer, hesitate not
TO declare that those high aluvl..l la2ls ar
c spaele OF being made to pay an interest Of
one hundred per Cent Oh capital Of 50 Geo:
and further those lands Will support ~ ore
beet Cattle to the acre than any lands not
even excepting the tar-famed Blue Grass {
region OF Kentucky Can be made to wei / /
i'fty to sixty bushels OF cora with an tqu,l
amount IN money value of cow-peas, and
pea-yine hay Oh same ground. Il was lnv j
good fortune to spend day with Mr. Mel, i
the estate of Messrs. C. 4 Bros, cotton .ac. I
tors firm well known il the city. /
On this place is a flock OF 500 10 500 ewes. L
with q Iall crop OF lambs ct thl, { ,Giy s. son,
Isl 'anHary al doing well. Tins s,il is {
apparently well adapted t5s Sleep raising. =
hesa ewes est. 1t most. :. ~ :. - Der i
tead: Nil shear about w. and one-tat " .
AIea po@ne.' Of wool in the dirt. ~ | pity :,
II" h&A or woman whose ets.llo L Is 10 be :
4HHccH - invest IN the li;.nt! Or s,ianEe. =
hl1 me 700, viii make. and here again
ny uses vi :roprlety we.a shocket. y the %
oid o. .2ekio ''burs that completely in =
:. TINS neck. However, taey were -
4 pump and Ut. These lambs ~
IN y. marketed az Taste. au! u
III sell readily at from 50 to 81 ci. a. The -
lany othe' small flock, on this bayou ana on y"
ed itlver. III similar condition, no care. 10 III
-tent!On Yet, with this safe and mos: reliable u.
ueiness, openly presenting itself, those good -
aorle, as II possessed by q faulty, VIII cling
tLelr rum to cotton and to Sainbo TO the IN
ter RUN. financially and politically. Of them III
ives, and transmit to posterlty an evil that
me alone can eradicate. MS
1t is Well known fact that stis same soil re.
anced on the Turf the best time on record str
} Compte, Princess and many others. We po
ld al o few half-breed shor-horn sto
title, from the common Creole or Texan COW Sta
as Is at once the business that | opine will
9 long correct the political evils by intro phi
eng superior class of Western l.borers. Tn
II own race, who can be relied upon. Who the
IL start TINS most praiseHorhy and irotita-
enterprise? Is it possible ever gain 10 ste
down to table as IL DAYS '.Lare Ivre.' ty
zen big sam Wilson aud Charlie Hettrr. kee
n, furnished rianlrs rs much unlike tie .l,y
lcle, we nov p4rttke OF, ami winch IS the
Il called beet, to the ut disgust of all cut. boz
ated potatoes. Xes say bread ;liI beet. hol
lieu Of cotton and cane. we have !, coun gra
and climate unsurpassed When ths dews Nc
Heaven, the great adjurant Ct the farnler BAT
; nm with the hope OF the grand destiny {
which be - called. Truly yours, wit
l. A. the
regarding the LOUISIANA seat as vacant, It !
| be observed taat to secure Il bare naiori. as
IN the Senate, GRAFT must no. only hold H.
thlrty-five extreme Republicans, but must 80
tie support of three of the ton San.t ,,r., "