The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-05-29
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Diversified Turning Is growing
slowly.
Give your horse exercise every day
otherwise be may become sluggish.
Cotton used 10 Be cash when gath.
cred, now It i credit while growing
The great ambition Of large por,
tion Of Southern farmers Is To raise
cotton.
Let your horse stand loose. lii pos
sible, without being tied up TO the
Manager
Nearly every State 10 the Union
has some law regulating the sale 81
commercial fertilizers.
The Southern farmer has been made
TO face 50 many new necessities since
the war, that cotton is unable to pay
for it.
Be sure you throw all the ashes
from The stove and fire place into the
garden; there is nothing better as a
top dressing.
Trees left to themselves unpruned
form too much wood. Fine frnits
cannot be expected on tree when its
top is very thick.
a mule may be taught to make a
straight fnrrow, by the farmer walk
ing far enough in tho rear to retain
bis proper senses.
The man who gets along best is the
one who cultivates a small patch of
cotton and largely of grain and root
crops and attends to his stock.
The negro and cotton combined
used to be the Southern planters idol.
Now the negro has been made citi-
zen, cotton is left as the sole idol.
More that ! 80, 900 tons of fertiIi-
zcrs were sold last year in the State
Of Georgia, and taxed at fifty cents
per ton. This yielded an income to
the State Of 100000, which is used
for agricultural purposes.
Il has been ascertained as fact
that nearly all the insolvency among
the farmers at the South results from
their planting 50 much cotton and
neglecting to raise grain for food and
to fatten meat for the table.
The stock report for Calcasieu Prai-
RE to the Commissioner of Agricnl-
tnre, is loss Of one per cent. II 900
sheep, 10000 horses and 10000 cattle
we're wintered on Calcasieu Prairie
alone without being fed or cared for,
and are better than the common stock
Of the North.
The boy who is born and raised on
the farm is blessed. There he pcts
the purest air, the freshest food and
every surrounding is adapted to the
more perfect development Of mind
and body. Nine.tenths Of the men
who have made their mark in any
business profession, have been born
and raised on farm.
Tobacco is rich and quick acting
fertilizer, and is also quick acting
emetic. It has flavor about it that
is repulsive to insects. 1t is said even
the squash bugs stomach is too weak
for it. A goat IL eating the tinfoil
off the fancy tobacco is always careful
not to use the woed. BY man alone
is it used, and 1t ia said it would soon
stop with man if il was not for the
great army Of little boys in the daily
training for its use.
According to the report of the com
missioner of Agriculture, Thomas j.
Bird, for the month Of April, 1886,
the parish Of Calcasien has increased
her acreage in cotton 10 per cent, corn
35 per cent, rice 40 per cent. Com
pared with last year, the condition is
about the same. In the entire State
the area in cotton is about the same.
Corn acreage in the entire State has
decreased about 10 per cent, and rice
about 10 per cent. In sugar cane the
decrease in plant is about 10 per cent,
while the condition is estimated Mt 95
per cent less than last year. Acreage
planted in oats in the entire State is
about the same. Oranges will be /
almost total failure throughout the
State. The condition of live stock,
notwithstanding tho severe winter, is
estimated at SO per cent. Since the
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