The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-01-16
NO 46


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Among the natives making hay il ai-
most unknown, end is not fed, except
To work horses in The towns. but the
Iowans settling here have been putting
it mp for the New Orleane market !,
where ID has been selling this winter at
$13 per ton. On the prairie over which
the stock ranged they cut and put mp
3 tons per acre Some Of these grasses
remain green throughout the winter,
and perpetually green pastures can be
had rs easily as not. The native cattle
betake themselves in winter. in large
numbers, 20 the swanps where the
'sswitch cane" abounds and upon that
they get very fat. In these swanips,
too, bogs thrive through the winter
SMALL GRAINS DO WELL.
but no one ever attempted TO raise
wheat here, so far as I can hear. and as
to whether it could be successfully cnl-
| tivated, cannot say. Vegetables oil
all kinds thrive wonderfully and the
gardens are, or should be, green all the
year. The present crop Of cabbage is
just heading. The New Orleans papers
state that strawberries from the open
field have been brought into town with
IN the past Gay or LWO.
In this town are a couple 0f apple
trees which aie doing well They are
seedlings, but il is believed that fruit
will do, at least, fairly WE'LL The err
ange is q tender tree, and this town ~
too far North for its culture, though
few miles South. particularly along the
streams, they are easily raised They
can be raised here easily, sufficient in
number for the family use, BY planting
near buildings. 1t isa
GREAT FEAR COUNTRY.
Ounces In abundance and the finest 4 ever
saw; fige peaches nectarinee, apricots, black
berries, raspherries, strawberrdes--l cannot
remember all--ean do no better than here.
II Is impossible that any country should
surpass this for cattle, horses or hogs The
abundant pasturage the plentiful and pala-
table water, the easy culture Of the many
grains, upon which TO work or fatten, insures
the largest returns for the smallest invest
ment Of labor, Poultry does far better than
with us, heard OF no disease among them
they lay as well In winter as in summer and
the market for both eggs and fowls 10 aa
good or better than with ls.
nod CHOLERA, TOO, Is usKNowN HRRE,
though swine are so scarce that 1t would take
good while for the news to become general
had IL invaded the country.
The cost OF living Is or ought TO be low.
The products of the garden, yard and farm
ought nearly to sustain family though moth
Ing were sold. How could an Iowa farmer,
conducting his business here az he does
there, fail TO become rich Why can he not
make here two dollars for every one possible
therep II lie comes and sees for himself,
am persuaded that he will conclude he can.
Are not these people prosperous you inquire
No The country Is a. poor or nearly 40, as
at the close Of the war Il SCENE paradoxi-
cal that my prior statements can be true and
this last true too, yet II is correct. The
causes are; The war left
THIS COUNTRY PRosTRATE,
While the North was more populous, more
wealthy, more prosperous than when IL COM
menced. Both Federal and Confederate
armies swept and reawept II again. Fences,
houses, gins, sugar houses were injured or
destroyed. BnsineH5 Of all kinds had ceased
Desolalation reigned. The prineipalswealt
OF the North lay In her labor, the true basis
OF all wealth, that wealth she had IN abund-
ance and Of the best kind. Not SO these
people. The whites knew nothing Of work
They lad to learn how, and there was no
teacher, The blacks relieved FROM the coern
elon of slavery and with the erudest of ideas
about freedom, confounded liberty with In
dolenee and neither tho ambition incited by
exertion, Without capital either III money,
labor or experience how could 1t be expected
that The waste places should be rebuilt
Again, this people
HAVE MADE THE AllsTAKE
Of attempting TO run too large farms, Were
they much closer managers, than most Of
them are, aud were negro labor much mora
reliable than II 10, the experience Of the
North with large farms would lead us TO exr
pect failure, Then, too, great reliance is
placed on q single crop, breadstuffs and meat
are imported from the north, (oorn is the
principle meat, strange 20 say), Then addl-
tlonal to that, and worse than all else, the
credit syatem-and that frightfully abused
prevails The wonder Is, not that the coun-
try conducted by these methods Is so poor
but that II exists under them at ALL But Will
not Northern men be prescrIbedf Net bit;
You WILL BE 1EARTlY wELooAfED,
IS those who proceeded you have been. Can
Northern men, with safety and without
odilm, express their sentlmentsG As freely
as In Iowa; just as have done while here
Just as those who have been here for the past
two OF three years have been doing But
suppose the Immigrant 10 he a radical Repuh-
lican So much the better. You can he
spared from Iowa, and but about 100 of such
ID needed TO make this parish Of that faith,
JAMES MoCABE.