The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-05-08
Jennings, Calcasieu Parish.
A GROWING PLACE--vALUABLEH HINTS TO
THE PLANTERS OF OUR PARISH.

Extracts from Mr.. NJ R. HilIgard's
correspondence to the Times Demo-
crat :
Nj F. /. Clarke an elderly gentle
man from the West, is one of the best
nurserymcn have seen anywhere and
no one can see his numerous achieve
ments in budding and grating, without
feeling that lie is an acquisition. He is
full of the experimental spirit, and will
advance Southern horticulture. The
South needs, most imperatiyely, more
such men. We must strike ont on
line and invent our own fruits. Much
has been done, but the future will show
surprising progress. Mr.. Clarke has
beautiful little peach orchard, many
young pears, apples, grapes, ounces,
some Strawberries, raspberries and
black kberries. There were some demon
strations in lucerne and California burr
clover that we're interesting the form
er sight worth seeing.
Mr.. Thos. ?. Thompson, of Cresco,
Ia, Welshman, was visited. He has
a thoroughbred Shorthorn bull, and
four or five good cows and heifers; also
a three quarters Clydesdale stallion.
Last year he got thirty five bushels of
oats per acre. He intends TO SOW next,
fall, red clover, timothy, and italian rye
grass.
The next visit made was to Mr.. j. A.
Daniels, former journalist from Iowa,
a gentleman of much travel and large
experience and culture. The primary
inducements to him had been health
ard cattle.
He and his beautiful and accomplish
ed daughter (if l may be allowed so
public compliment have been won
derfully benefited by the climate, and
are enthusiastic in its praise. Mr.. Dam
els has raised forty bushels of corn per
acre without fertilizing it, and las he
has phrased it) Every poorly cultivat-
ed.' He had last year superb field of
oats, but they "lodged" in a severe
storm, and he lost them as grain crop,
and could not tell the yield. He
brought up some razorback hogs foom
a weight of forty pounds in June to 200
pounds in January From June to
September they lived on figs, and there
after until killed in January, on native
grasses. They got so fat Oh figs that
he feared they would die. His son
Paul catching the hint has thousand
exsnore cuttings of the fig planted, and
intends to make this fruit play IL large
part in hog raising hereafter.
Mr. E. NJ. Powers, formerly OF Iowa,
has been down two years. He has the
largest stock-raising scheme on foot
have yet met in the State He has
oh 2n10
der fence of five wires. He has thou
sand head of cattle and number of
fine large cows for breeding purposes,
which he intends crossing with Here
fords and Durham bulls. He has in
use two Brahma bulls of high grade.
Mr.. Powers intends to make spe-
cialty of breeding road horses.
He has very high-priced, well bred
Mambrno stallion and twenty large
brood mares-all brought from Iowa.
D. G. st. John was visited the next
day. He put up his fifty tons of hay
last year--cut from the native grasses.
This year he intends to cut seventy five
tons. He has already seeded some or
chard grass and intends next fall-Octo-
Der is the proper time--to SOW timothy
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horses for farm work, and has IL three
fonrths Norman stallion, brought with
him from Minnesota.
Mr. S. G.. Davis was visited. He has
the honor of having introduced one of
the first hay presses into the neighbor-
hood. He has sixteen acres of oats and
ten acres of corn. He has number of
grade cattle, brought from the West-a
cross of Shorthorns and Holsteins
Another Western farmer visited was
Mr.. Morris Bryon, a brisk, pushing
gentleman, full of snap and "get up"
bubbling over with enthusiasm, and
destined to be rich h-humorously speak
ing. He is thorough believer in tim
ot5y aud red clover for the country.
Mr. Bryon is a very successful rice
planter, and is pleased greatly with his
success. On six acres, he got last year
130 sacks of rough rice, weighing $50
pounds per sack.
Another Western immigrant visited
was Mr.. w FL. Simmons. He has q rich
spot on Grand Marais, and is planting
rice. He is a hard worker, enthusiastic,
and Il thorough believer in the country.
also visited the Messrs. Brown Bros,
from Minnesota One has Il pretty or
chard of various fruits, and both are
raising variety of crops-rice, corn,
oats
The Washington Argus, in its last
issne, under the caption "Build Facto-
ries,n gives the following sound, solid,
sensible advice to its readers. There
is no doubt that the writer's head is
level on that point; and numerous
bright possibilities are in store for
Washington, as we'll as other towns
similarly situated, if the suggestions
therein given were duly appreciated
and seconded by, an enlightened, pro-
gressiVe public spirit:
Build factories. Manufacture your
cotton. Compress what you ship, and
bring European purchasers to your
doors. Work up your beef hides into
leather and shoes, convert your timber
into wagons, furniture, barrels and a
thousand other things. Use yonr soil
for pottery, crockery, and all kinds of
brick and building stone. Convert
yonr bark, bagasse and other materials
into paper. Use your resources. Start
ever so small an enterprise of any of
these kinds; make but start, and see
to what grand results it may grow"
Bucklen,s ArniCa saIve.