The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-09-11
Land of EvmngeIIne.
From an Iowa Exchange.

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Where shall open my next farm
I must first secure healthy location,
else all my efforts will end in death.
Where do most people go for health
First to the Atlantic, the Gulf or the
Pacific coast, then to the mountains
and TO the many medicinal springs
and inland lakes, and now what kind
of farming is most profitable and most
agreeable to me. The end Of all good
farming is stock raising. 1t makes
rich soil and rich returns then grass
is the best form and warm weather the
best time to feed stock. Good and
profitable results may be obtained
from grass alone, but for highest
prices | must feed some grain. Fruit
raising is the highest type of farming
and most pleasurable, hence | must
select my farm with reference to eli
mate. Warm and cold soil infects
early and late frosts-Clay soils give
finest flavor, need less fertilizing and
retain moisture and fertility longest;
abundant rain fall is very important
item for general farming; an even eli
mate rain and dew give quantity and
quality. Then for the greatest success
| must locate where | can raise the
greatest variety of farm products.
Then 1 must have a market, by rail-
road is best, for it gives comfort, safe
ty and dispatch; an ocean market
gives best chance for all products and
highest prices.
Now for a location. Suppose we
go with the crowd and try Southwest
Louisiana. find healthy even
climate, clay soil, good grass, smooth
prairie, heavy timber near the prair
les, good water, abundant rainfall
fruit trees have few enemies; stock
lives the year around without feed or
care; peach trees bear forty years,
and fig trees, world without end. Seed |
time and harvest last all the year.
Only ten miles north of system of
lakes bounding the coast of the gulf |
of Mexico for hundred miles max
ing the sportman's paradise. Oysters,
fish, and wild fowl in abundance, sur
rounded with orange groves, fruits
and flowers as they existed in prime
val beauty before the visit of the
pirates Kidd, Lafitte aud Thousand |
others who made this their hunting
and hiding place until transpIanted |
to warmer climate by the hand of
avenging man and merciful God.
Here in lake and bayou lie buried the
treasure troye from pirate ships. Here
The Pirate Lafitte made his last stand,
fought his last battle, burned his last
ship, buried his last treasure, and
may you and l be the lucky finders
Of treasures untold, either of pirate
gold or better gold from golden
grain or golden fruits, for there are
leep mines of wealth in a wintorless
year in a climate adapted to all
grains, fruits and grasses, generally
grown in temperate and semitropical
zones, and where the gentle winds
win the sparkling dews from the
parking skies till at evening the
ace of nature is dewIy washed to
make glorious the coming day.
All our interests lead us to a land of
,asier conditions, to a land of sum-
ner, of fruits and flowers, and shall
We not be true to them When the
geese and ducks take their annual
light from lands of snow to lands of
'un, suppose we quietly fold our
ents, take passage on the |. c. r. R.
i'll we pitch them again on the shore
If the new Mediterranean, in the
lewly discovered "Land of Evange-
ine." S. L. CAREY.