The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-12
Correspondence.
HEALTH, CROPS, STOCK. ETC.

Lhr. j. \. Gilmore:
1t is the duty of physicians in a COM
munity to counsel with each other and
endcavor, from the experience of all, TO
arrive at the most successful plan of
treatment of the different forms of dis
ease which may prevail. This would
seem to be especially necessary where
certain practitioners are uniformly sue
CoSsful and others lose more than half
their cases in tue same epidemic, The
enlightened physician has a higher
mission upon earth than the mere greed
of gain, and if one dies through our
neglect of a~vailing ourselves of all pos
siblo aid, we arc at fault and nothing
but ignorance in a community wilt long
sustain such Il course.
People who immigratc here need lIuyC.
no fear of more than an average amount.
of sickness, and may expect much less
than in some other parts of tho South.
A very sensible letter from Texas was
some time ago published in the Sugar
Bowl. If n person could go to Texas
and concentrate all the good on one
quarter section of land, lie might find
an ideal Utopia. Rich and cheap open
land-timbor on the morrill,; cattle range
rEn and good ~wator-whoat, cotton
and sugar land combined mild climate,
as i'll the southwest, etc, ctC.-what
moro could be desired When, how
, ever, a selection is made, it is found4le.
iiCient in many respects, as it is evJtty-
where else, and hence many of IL old
~neighbors from the States who emf
grated there years ago TO retrivc their
R%OrtunCs. AFRO still without homes.
While many exaggerated reports hHVp
gone abroad i'll regard to this section of
Louisiana, it affords about as fair an
average of advantages aS any other
part of the South.
Some two or three years ago a Mis-
sissippian made 4 crop OF MI. Williams
farm, in muCh-abused Prairie Greig.
1t was a very wet year, and corn crops
were short, and he went to Texas, and
after several removals, is now in the
northwest, paying II dollar per bushet
for corn, while it has boon selling here
at from thirty to fifty cents during the
season, or us VIC call it here from fifty
to seventy-fvo cents per bbl., which is
two flour bbls. full in the shuckt How
many acres of wheat or cotton III that
part of Texas will it take to make Sl60
in money? Mr.. j. Williams made on
his place, last year, the above amount
from one acre Of cane, after deducting
expense of hauling two miles to a mill,
across a ferry, and also dedueting the
expense of toll ut the mill, which took
{. One-third.
The past two years has caused a great
desire for an increase OF cattle. Tile
two preceding winters were very mild
the mercury barely at any time falling
to 800. In consequence of this, cattle
were increased as much as possible and
the summer sale of calves for ready
cash gave considerable impetus to trade
during that season. The past dry
fall; followed by q rCry cold winter. has
blasted many a brilliant hope of the
future among cattle mon. The bones
of the dead are bleaching on the
prairies in all direction Do people in
the South evor pause to consider that
"the humane man careth for his heart"
and that it is not right nor profitable to
bring so much suffering int o the world?
This subject may be referred TO again
in connection with our resources, by
one who has no taxes TO grind"
j. B.R.
Abberille, Harmihon Parish, hug, 1877.