The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-09-19

etc, can be made prOntaOle III THIS
State.
Numerous factories may he and will
be built up in the State to work up raw
materials, cotton, wool. jute. ramie.
Zncca tilamentOsa, etc. and for can
ming fruits and vegetables. oysters,
sh,imps. and ether thing>-the oyster
fields and fisheries may be made to
yield sl5.O OO. O90 yearly.
Louisiana ut one time since h e Wal
had but , 045, 900 acres of land in cnl-
tivation, and never cultivated 5000. 900
acres :; aud yet she has made III Il
year crops worth ut the market prices
nearly a hundred million dollars.
TOBACCO CULTURE IN LOUISIANA.
Tobacco. rice and indigo We're the
principal staple production of Lonisi-
ana IA hundred years ago. In 1893
and later, in consequence Of the raw
ages of insects upon the indigo plant.
Il greater impetus was given TO the cnI
tivation If tobacco.
In 1902 2v00 hog>heads of tobacco
We're exported from New Orleans. and
tobacco was cultivated all along the
river as high up as Natchez.
About 1885, Pierre Chenet, a descen
dant of the Acadian French, discover
ed a process of curing that gave Use to
the periQne tobacco. The cultivation
of pprique tobacco is confined chiefly
to the parish of st. James, about fifty
miles above New Orleans. This robac
co, put up in cnrrottes usually weighing
four pounds. but sometimes two pounds
and less. is strong, rich, gummy, tough
and dark. with a shining lustre.
WHEAT In SOUTHERN LOUISIANA.
Before the country on the Ohio River
was settled mp and cultivated. and be
fore the fatboats of the West brought
flour, and corr, an& bacon to Louisiana,
the old inhabitants of Iberville parish,
made their own wheat. 1t is not Ger
tain that some kind of winter rust
proof wheat would not do well now in
some portions of the sugar parishes of
Louisiana. 1t is raised in the upper
parishes.
THE LIVE Stock OF LOUISIANA n IT'S
PRODUCTIONS.
The live stock on the farms of Louisi
ana alone, notthose of towns and cities,
Oh June II, 1880, amounted to 651.703
head. as follows i04 .42S horse. 1854
mules and asses, 4l,729 working oxen,
l46. asa mich cows and 2S2. AIS other
cattle.
The number of swine amounted to
633 4S9, the number Of sheep 1861
head.
The Louisiana wool crop in 1881
amounted to 4O6,67s pounds, avera
ging three pounds to a sheep.
There were but 9l6,0s9 pounds of bu,
ter made on Louisiana farms in 1879,
about 10 pounds to a farm, (4e,292
farms.)
There were but 76lS pounds of chees &c
made in Louisiana that year, and but
1859 ons Of :hay averaging less than
I'M ton of hay to a farm. Most 0,
the farmers made no hay at all. leaving
the cattle to live by the principle Of
''root hog. or die"
THE CHICKEN AND EGG CROP.
Louisiana had 1,49O,9O7 barnyard
and other fowl in 1879. aud the egg
crop is put down in the census al
3,3s2,246. If a million hens had laid
but IL eggs each in a year it would
have given 1900 0CO eggs. There
must have been a great many eggs sto
len and not accounted tor in 1879.
SUGAR, MoLAssEs AND HoNEY-Cor
TON.
Louisiana, in 1879, made III, FOG
hogshcads of sugar (about 81, 43s tons).
II, 69624s gallons molasses, and 400
pounds of sorghum sugar and 33,777
gallons of sorghum syrup, and l65, AL
pounds of honey.
The cotton crop amounted to 1854,
7s7 bales, the rice %, is, 3l1 pounds.
POTAToTOEs AND OTHER FARM Pro
DUCTS.
The sweet potato crop of Louisiana
in 1879 was l,3lS.1I bushels !; the
Irish potato crop ISO.ll5 bushels. The