St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-02-16
Who Should Come to Louisiana.
THEIR MINDS TO SETTLE AT AN EARLY
DAY IN LOUISIANA.

THOUSANDS OF PERSONS ARE MAKING vi
THEIR MINDS TO SETTLE AT AN EARLY
DAY IN LOUISIANA.
It is settled question that people can
do we'll here, and far beyond their ex
pectations, provided they have means te
start in business and the requisite capacity
to conduct it. We fear too many are
coming who have barely sufficient means
to reach their destination, depending fol-
their future work to be obtained Of
Strangers This is not wise. Occasionally
such a person will be successful and more
Than realize all his expectations but this
is not the rule. If a man has means, he
can afford to wait till he can find or make
a business not so with the man who
must win his bread and butter every day
or go hungry. He may succeed and he
may not. AS rule, a new country is q
poor place for day labor.
What is needed is the man who has
capital to start some enterprise that can
give employment to labor. 1t may be
some simple industry and require but j
small investment, or it may be the extern
sive factory there is room for it. w
enumerate a few lines of industry in
which there would be success, if capital
and intelligence were comb ned
l. The growing of broom corn and the
anufacture of brooms.
9. The production of poultry and eggs
fifty families could engage in this profit
ably.
3. The manufacture of soap. This does
not require large capital at first, as all the
materials are here and can be purchased
cheaply We understand that the ashes
of hard pine will answer. If so, thousands
of wagon loads can be had for nothing.
f. The manufacture of wagons, for
which there is an unlimited supply of the
best timber at a nominal cost.
5. The manufacture of wooden ware
from the gum trees.
The manufacture of cabinet furniture
from the cheap and beautiful lumber of
this region.
7. The growing and manufacture of to-
bacco. The best varieties of tobacco can
be grown in unlimited quantities, from
superb chewing to Connecticut wrappers.
8. The sheep industry-sheep will not
only live, but do well the entire year,
without any food but the natural grasses.
Turnips are wonderful crop in this
region, and grow amazingly all winter.
With good turnip patch fat lambs can
be placed in the market in May, at round
price. Sheep are perfectly healthy and
wonderfully prolific. Five thousand farm
ers are needed for this industry.
8. The raising of good dairy cows and
the manufacture of butter. As long as
milk commands in all the cities of the
south ten cents per quart, and butter an
average of thirty. five to forty cents per
pound, there is no danger of an over sup
ply. One hundred farmers should engage
in this business the ensuing year, and be
prepared to conduct winter dairying an
other season. Sweet potatoes make an ex-
cellent food for the dairy.
10. The fruit industry-ffty thousand
people are wanted for this line of invest
ment. Each family should possess few
thousands so as to purchase the land and
plant orchards and be able to wait for
the product. Figs, peaches, pears, Eng
glish walnuts and pecans are sure crops
and very profitable.
Canning factories will be established
upon large scale as soon as sufficient
fruit is produced. This is the native land
of the blackberry and strawberry. Thous-
ands of acres should be planted for can
ming.
II. Garden sessssssa Should be raised on
fiaaTge Scale, and put up neatly for the gen
eral market. Nearly every one obtains biz
seed at present from the North.
IL. Cucumbers, caulifower, onions ant
tomatoes grow abundantly nearly the yea
round. Why not have picking estab
lisment7 1t could continue active opera
: tions for nine months of tho year in the
factory and twelve months in the field.
10. The production of rice, corn and
sweet potatoes as general farm crops are
very profitable on account of the price they
command in the market Corn readily
commands at all seasons of the year fifty
cents per bushel. Rice now brings one
dollar and fifty cents per bushel. Ter
times as many sweet potatoes are needed
as are now produced. They should be
used extensively for cattle, horses and
sheep. large industry will eventually
spring up in the desiccation of sweet pc.
tatoes for the foreign market.
We have enumerated items enough to
show that there are abundance of profit.
able industries awaiting the intelligence,
energy and capital of the immigrant and
he must have all of these to succeed in
any country. There are some people who
have failed in every country they have
tried. They are deficient in some element
of human nature, and you cannot produce
a crop without foundation germ, in
brains any more than in soil, even though
you bring to bear the fertile soil, the
balmy atmosphere and the vitalizing sun
of this genial climate We need men OF
force.
We want energy at hundred pounds
pressure to the square inch. We must
have concentrated force, sustained and di
rected by sufficient capital. We have