The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-12
LOUISIANA:
rTs IMMENSE AGaICuLTUHAL RE-
SOURCES AND now TO DE-
yEu.Or THEW,

adise that now invites intelligent, In.
siustrious and energetic laborers, whose
alluvial soils are unsurpassed In point
OF fertility, and whose agricultural and
climatic influences are Of such impor-
tant agencies, particularly when the
advantages Of seasons are correctly un~
sierstood In order to correspond with
and secure the profitable results arising
from proper comprehension of the
duties imposed on all who depend on
mother earth for support.
We can. after an experience of two
score years, speak of a profession that
since infancy claimed our devotion In
the study OF the varied products OF the
field. the garden and the grove, aaa
nature In all It's phases. Now literally
true, a region Astounding In honey, and
its prairies with milk
We propose for the benefit OF the q'is-
ing generation, az we'll as others who
are struggling for a reality, to devote,
con dntors, a few chapters on the vast
resources OF our State, and what indus
try and Intelligence can accomplish.
III our remarks should reach the cap
italiet whose means will permit the pur-
chase of ssgar estate, we would re-
mind them, and particularly 90 II they
are strangers to the soil and its pecu-
liarities: Whether situated on the bank
Of the Mississippi or the far richer lands
of the interior bayous, unhappily sub.
liect to foundations, and from which sad
effects the writer has just reason to
complain. However, the cherished
hopes that filled our breast Of a day of
retribution and retrfbutive Justice has
dawned: cur fondest imaginations are
strengthened aud daily realized. The
intelligence and integrity of our State
authorities confirms the instinct of a
contlding hope that the day has passed
for "rings and levee COMPANIES" to
longer plumber the property holder
under the form Of an Ubiquitous law.
SUGAR.
The great interest of Southern Louisi-
ana, and for which her alluvial soil is,
by q wise dispensation of good Provi-
dence, destined In due time to produce
In abundance this necessary article of
cation can no more dispense with than
we can with beef or mutton.
The invention Of the
HspRAuIrc DREDGING MACHINE.
by Mr.. Newton, will enable our landed
morass and convert 1t into one grand
agricultural basin, exceeding and ex-
ceiling In richness and fertility any soil
vet known, or mentioned. since the DAYS
OF Eden, and at less than one-fourth
the cost hitherto paid for such work.
It is a satisfaction to write on profita-
BILE investments. We know well that
since the advent Of our own Governor,
Francis I. Nichols, louisiana Consols
have advanced thirty-nin points. We
should. In this, further acknowledge
that In the main we owe debt TO the
sagacity and foresight of the legally
elected President of the United States,
from whose administration we expect,
aud are certain to receive, more lasting
benefits--the Matchmaking of a levee
system. When this Is accomplished
our State, as of yore, will take her place
and rank, from which she has been de-
prived by unwise, ill-timed and oppres-
sive lave. Guided at present by states
men of tried integrity, this fact is to us
even now In the evening Of life an ely
stun of consolation.
What, then, Is necessary and requisite
TO develop the untold agricultural re-
OF our State, may be summed
up In three words-capital and intelli-
gent labor. Intelligence, however abun-
dant by those who possess 1t, without
some active capital may occasion disap.
and anxieties. ,(Of this we
have had painful recollections since
1S74.) Facilities are only obtained hy
the pledge of ones home. IL the ele-
ments destroy the crops ON which he
his family to be sacrificed to the avarice |
of the money lender, who dictates terms |
to those whose untoward circumstances |
are not considered? Hence the neces-
sity Of legislation In the interest of the |
The capitalist, the factor and the |
planter. They would then be more
FULLY Identified In developing the re-
sources that are as certain to yield as
the seasons pass in regular rotation.
Every interest is nourished by agri-
,ulture, even the farmers of the West.
who supply the planters with provi-
,ions.
The system of banking which pre-
rails In Louisiana originated In coun-
,ries where the products Of labor were
much diversified. Sixty days accom-
notation was all the grain farmer re-
luired. Hence the apparent antagonism
between the banker and planter since
uch accommodation is OF no benefit.
The planter, whose sole capital ia his
state and stock, IS at the mercy Of the
capitalist or bank director. Yet in the
ace Of all these discouragements, we
Ind on all sugar estates where intelH-
,enee and economy were strictly OBJ
erved, an indication of prosperity.
md even mere so the past two years
han any since the era of free labor.
The falling off in the sugar crops In
he West India islands, the cost Of pro-
lucing beets (beet root), whose soil
must annually be fertiliZed at an i'm
nense outlay, and the fact that of all
he States in this Union our own be-
owed Louisiana has a soil whose pro-
luctive capacities are inf1nitiyely be.
vond calculations in recuperation, and
rom which source her intelligent sons,
both native and adopted, rely most con-
iden2y to meet all her liabilities, even
those most UNANIMOUSLY imposed upon
her by the alien swallows.
Sugar imported during the past eleven
months have aggregated 1 1923 ,944, 1856
pounds; exported. $4,000, 900 pounds
leaving ,aa3. 9a4.e35 pounds: total crop !
Of Louisiana in 1876 and 1877, Iso, 672. $40
pounds; molasses and syrup in 1876 and
1877, IL ,02A, los gallons. For profits of
sugar planting see New Orleans Price
Current Sugar Book, March, 1876. page
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