The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-07-08


FOR FARMERS AND srocKRAIsKRs.
Su1RHER NINE STATION, L. W. r. r., i
July 5, 1882 /
Editor Lake Charles Echo
Your valuable paper comes to hand
regularly, and is read with interest and
pleasure Several things in your last
issue have especially attracted my at
tention, and cause me to trouble You
with this letter.
/ In your local columns | notice
g Our country friends should bring IN
more produce, Butter and eggs com
mand good prices and the market is
bare. We arc eating oleomargerine at
forty cents a pound. Nice, luscious
country butter would find ready sale
at good priee." Now want to ask :
Would "nice, luscious country butter +"
bring forty cents per pound in your
town? If YES, then there is a for
time awaiting the man who will start a
dairy and poultry farm near Lake
Charles, sure enough. Your cores
pondent has been of that same opinion
for some time and hopes, some day, to
see the idea carried out.
As to the goat question, I have often
remarked the idea advanced by you, in
the same issue; but during the ten
years of my residence in your parish,
| can't say that l have seen more than
one old-fashion billie goat during the
whole time. Where can we get the
nannies and the Angora billie Tell
us, and we will endeavor to make a
start at raising them. Those who are
now raising sheep have found them
very profitable, then why not try a
few Angora goats along with them, eh ?
For reasons, inexplioable to me, the
people of this section have prevailing
aversion to experimenting, and seem to
cling to the old way with a tenaeity
of grip worthy of a better cause"
Now had we not better let go that
grip" 60 to work and improve our
horned stock, horses, sheep, hogs and
poultry Try Angora goats in fact
everything new, raise more rice, and
say, "eyery corn hill planted on my
farm land say every year henceforth)
this year will have at least a pint Of
manure in it."
Mr.. Editor, like these articles Of
yours on farming matters; they have
the right ring, and if kept up will |
prove of lasting benefit to our parish, |
for what is it that lies at the bottom /
of all kinds of business, bat the farm /
The farm is the source of moral and
philosophic intelligence. 1t is on the
farm where the true greatness Of our
Maker is first learned with effect and
fuIlness. It is on the farm where,
with the use Of proper energy, skill !
and industry, the time Of man is best
consumed that plenty and happiness
reign, and his (man's( true greatness
becomes the nearest parallel to the de-
sign of the Designer of all things.
And now all these things being true,
how does it happen that the Legislators
of our state see fit to pass by the farm
ing interest, with seeming contempt,
when well may we say, THE Almighty,
the artist Of the universe, never paint
ed handsomer picture than a field of
riPening grain waving in the sunlight
and murmuring thirty bushels to the
acre" Please tell us how it happens !
This section of the parish has been
suffering for want Of rain for the past
month"; rain yesterday is the first we
have had, to do any good, since the
goth OF May last. The yield of corn
will be very short. But rice is doing
well. 1t is late sweet potatoc planting,
but We hope 10 make good crop yet. |
Good health has been a blessing granted .
US, almost without an exception.
Sulphur Mine station, I'd est Sulphur
City, is looming up slowly, but surely. /
We have two good country stores, do
ing good business-E. A. Perkins
and John Lyons. We have a section
house, belonging to the railroad, as
well as platform for passengers and |
freight, and cattle pens. Several hun
dred head of cattle have been shipped |
to New Orleans from here, during the !
past season, and the place is ultimately |
destined to become quite important in
this way. l imagine some day seeing
a saw mill here, and log railway leay-
ing from here and reaching northward |
into the pineries. Soon another store
is 10 go up. We are to have a doctor
and a drugstore. We have a Justices I
court and constable, and when 1--WE ex-
peet to SOON we get our church and
school house built, and the Sulphur
company open up their mine, our city |
will be aae Gfdiae oCc0mplie.
Y L