The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-09-05
sugartown Notes.
suGARrowN, LA, Aug. "a, 1885.


= Editor Lake Charles Echo
Improvement is still going on in th
supper country" Messrs. Dear Il Ca
. are pushing their mill to completion
: to be in readiness for the incoming
/ cotton crop, which promises to be th'
, largest ever raised in this section
They have erected very commodiou
mill and gin house, and propose tt
; have all the latest improvements an6
convenieuces for dispatching busines.
with all possible speed compatible
with satisfactory results. They arr
also putting up brick kiln, 50 that
the people can have brick chimney
and brick curbing for their wells, and
other things for which purposes moth.
ing is better than properly burned
brick.
Messrs. G.. w. Richardson 4 Co.
are also putting their machinery in
order and making improvements for
the accommodation of the public, pre-
paratory to ginning the cotton and
cleaning the rice of the present crop.
Report has it, and give it only as
such, that Mr.. Henry Hes, who
has lately purchased the Farquhar
property, and is now in peaceable
and undisputed possession of the
same, will soon put full stock Of
goods in the store, and have in con-
nection Herewith corn and saw-mill
and gin.
Surely Sugartown will have broad
foundation, being about two miles
long, on which to build huge inland
city.
Crops are uncommonly fine. Cot
ton, in some localities, has been in
jured by too much rain, and is she'd
ding its squares TO considerable ex-
tent. There is also some complaint
of rust but If what bolls are already
on the weed, and what will come on
by the middle of next month, mature,
there will be more than an ordinary
crop. The few patches of rice that
| have seen and heard from exceed
anything that has ever been in this
section. A widow lady and her chill
dren living near here, | am informed,
planted about two acres of upland rice
and cultivated it as she would cotton,
and it stands six feet high, with huge
stalks and exceedingly large and full
heads.
Some Of our farmers are expert
mGnting with sorghum this, year with
every prospect of success. There are
some very fine small crops of it in this
neighborhood, but it is not yet made |
into molasses, so am not able to report |
results, but | believe it will be one Of
the most profitable crops that can be
made, as it not only produces molasses
but an abundance Of feed for hogs and
horses. Mr.. Holland, living five or six
miles from Sugartown, informs me that
he made one-fourth of an acre, which
he had made up a few days since,
which yielded him 35 gallons of mo-
lasses and IA barrels of heads. One
Of these heads is nearly equal to an
ear of corn to feed to hogs or horses,
to say nothing of the fodder, equal to
any corn fodder, which he might have
saved, had the weather been such that
be could have cured it when he cut
The cane. Hogs will grow fat ON sor-
yhum, and will eat stalk, fodder and
head. Two crops can be made year
rom the same planting. The first can
DO made into molasses, and the second,
which suckers from the old roots, can
pc cut and cured for winter forage for
'tock. II
This is indeed, and truly, farming
country, Croakers can say what they
Dlease.i IL takes brain and muscle
combined to make farming q success {
N any soil, and when farmers use both /
n equal parts on this soil, and learn to {
ultiyate it so as toimprove instead of &
mpoVerishing il with every crop they {
AXE from it, there is no telling the /
possibilities it may reach. Croakers
ell us that these old pine woods lands !
Gon't sprout peas, and yet they cannot /
Ind foot of that land that is not t
oyered with most luxnriant growth Q
{ grass on which stock soon fatten, s
owever poor they may be in the !
pring, 1t is conceded fact that &
here grass will grow other vegeta- b
ion will by proper cultivation. B
"shrimp" has taken another sum v
lersalt, and this time he appears in a
ne role of the man with a long beard I,