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St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
lutte and Ramie Culture in the South.

The improvements which have recently
been made in the processes OF extracting
fibers now ensure profitable returns to the
cultivators of jute and ramie. In the
coming spring, it is probable that large
acreage of these staples will be planted in
the Southern States. A concert Of action
and intelligent business management will
certainly secure success. 1t is not wise for
isolated planters to cultivate small crops
of lutte and ramie. Co operation is essen
tial to the prosperity of the new industries.
Farmers should form neighborhood asso-
Citations and mutually agree to raise given
number of acres of these textiles. Then
each planter would be benefited by
the common experience, and economies,
impossible on farms remote from each
other, could be practiced. One dehbra-
tor might serve for several plantations,
and the product could be more readily sold,
when manufacturers were sure of obtain
ing large and definite quantities OF hber
1t would save time and prevent lnconven-
fence for each neighborhood to select
competent man to gather information for
the use of his associates. 1t would DE MS
duty to ascertain the most efficient machln-
ery for the treatment of fbers and the
best markets for the sale of the products.
1t would be well to make contract IN
advance. Then the planter will be sure
of sale of his crops and will not be forced
to sell them at low rate in order to save
them. A company in New York offers
to buy all the ramie that the Southern
States produce at $50 ton, the planters
should make early engagements with such
companies, and then exempt from the
necessity of sacrificing their crops, they
know in advance, with close approach to
accuracy, what their returns will be. 1t
would hardly seem necessary to suggest
that all the requisite machinery should be
ATTAINED before the maturity OF the harvest,
but, in several instances, large yields have
been lost by a neglect to secure dehbra-
tors till the stalks had became too woody
to treat.
All the Southern States have lands suited
to the culture of ute and ramie. But
Texas, besides it's natural adaptation to
these growths, enjoys the additional advan-
tage of having within its borders an able
promoter of the new industries. MIR. Felix
Fremerey of Yorkton, long familiar with
the production of jute and ramie in other
countries, is an enthusiastic advocate or
their cultivation in the United States. Ac-
quainted with the merits of different de-
corticators and the rates of various markets.
and controlling large supplies OF Jute SEED
and ramie roots, he can render valuable
service to all those planters who choose to
avail themselves of his intelligence and ex-
perience.
With an earnest hope that a general cul-
ture of iute and ramie will enrich the cul-
tivators and increase the textile resources
of the nations. W0terhouse, IN Lare
Stock Journal
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23

eating the land, the rice plant Will ou'-
grow its slower rivals in the race for HE.
Irrigation, then, and drainage are III
separable sisters. Even in a rice held tney
must walk hand in hand, to lead US to tna'
goal-the aspiration of all Americans
independence. Yet misfortune has been
blessing in disguise. 1t has taught Us
more than can express within the narrow
compass of these few pages; 1t has taugn'
us, among other things, the use ana Valuo
of rice itself as food for our WORK AM.
mails, for there is no gainsaying the Iacs
that rice at So so per Dbl. is incontestaply
cheaper than corn or oats at the usuai
market value, but it is better, as WIN al
other grains, to crack it, for the outer
cuticle is so hard that digestion IS OK.
tremely difficult Misfortune has taugn'
US the value of rice straw, that is SO care
lessly thrown away The fruit dealers OF OF
New Orleans pay readily $500 to $lo'OV
per ton for this, in order to ship troplcal
fruits to the markets of the North. IL Is
also splendid article for the manufacture
of paper. This straw makes splenolo
hay, not only for cattle, but also for horses
and mules, but to make it more palataoie
and digestible, it is better to first sprinkle
it with saltwater, or better still, with
little molasses. Nothing then need be
lost everything can be utilized
The modern thresher now is seen IN
every nook and corner of our land but a
ten per cent loss in the straw is horrible
to contemplate. The primitive way OF
pounding in wooden morEars and separat-
ing the grain from the chaff, by tossing
the same in the air in wide bottomed
baskets, has been supplanted by the rice
mills supplied with the latest improved
machineries they obtain 81 lbs. clean and
pearly rice to the barrel of 1862 lbs, yet
out of this number exists 10 lbs. too much
of broken rice. With the self binder, the
farmer is master of the situation ; he holds
now the harvest within the hollow OF his
hands, on lands susceptible of drainage.
The future is bright with the promise OF
harvester and thresher combined. I'M
possible do hear? why, nothing is I'M
possible to American ingenuity Already
have seen trial fail but failure is the
father of success-the dawn before day.
Invention has made us independent of the
rise and fall of the Father of Waters :
steam aud it's appliances has made this a
subject of apprehension and dread only to
the unprogressive yet the pumping outfit
is costly and requires entirely too much
fuel Our rice straw ought to suffice as fuel
for all our work nay, irrigation ought to
be brought to the level of the purse of the
humblest and poorest The storms and
the winds, yea! the majestic river that
flows, at times so languidly by, at others,
with such impetuous speed, ought to be
bridled by mans intelligence, and COM
PEELED to perform work needful for our
maintenance and support, by elevating
water to the heights it belongs in agricul-
tural economy.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill.

The agricultural appropriation bill, com
pleted recently by the house committee on
agriculture proposes an appropriation Of
ST 636 01O as compared with estimates of
81. CSC, 100, and an appropriation for the
present year of $1,715, 1926.
The appropriation of 800, 900 made in
last years bill to enable the commissioner
of agriculture to continue experiments in
developing sorghum cane is omitted in the
present bill. ~
TheIegular appropriation of $500, 900 for
the purchase and distribution of seeds is
made, but provision is inserted requiring
that the commissioner of agriculture shall
supply these seeds directly to the several
States agricultural experimental stations
for distribution by them. This provision
viii deprive senators and representatives
in coigress of their usual quota of seeds.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
Short Horns as Mixers.

We are asked if there are any milking
Short-norns? Yes. There are individual
Short horns that are fine mixers. There
are families that are good mixers. But
the Short horn is beef breed and we
think ought to be kept for that purpose.
We recently said so, and the Sh0rtho7n
Gazette copied our article approvingly.
But correspondent of that paper takes
different view. He says, speaking of the
Bates cattle, that the milking qualities
have always been and are still one of the
strongest recommendations of the strain.
One of the telling cards in Mr.. Bates
success was his milk and butter record.
We are told in ''BelPs History" that
Duchess by Daisy Bull, gave twenty eight
quarts daily, and made twenty one pounds
of butter per week, upon grass alone.
Who will undertake to say that had she
been fed the many kinds of rich foods
now used to make heavy test yields, that
she would not have equaled Mary Ann of
ST. Lambert's thirty one and one quarter
pounds? We also learn from same history
that from Mr.. Bates entire herd of thirty
cows 225 pounds of butter per week were
regularly sold, and that but one half of
the milk was creamed Therefore we are
safe in believing that 450 pounds, or an
average of fifteen pounds per week for the
whole herd, can be credited to them. I
ask is there herd of any breed, on grass
alone, that can equal this? L believe in
milking Short horns. | do not think a COW
is worthy of the breed unless she is a good
mixer. Cows, in order to be good at the
pal, must be put up for the business behind.
They must have heavy hind quarters
good barrel, and taper towards the front.
A COW with a heavy head and shoulders, is
scarcely ever good mixer. | hold that
from the middle backward is the best part
of Short horn. 1t is just here that they
excel all other breeds in quality and guam
tity of beef as well as milk, butter and
cheese. ! cannot understand why it is
that none of our progressive Short horn
men have given some of their cows milk
and butter records.
The Rural still says that when you make
the Short horn breed into the best dairy
breed that it is possible to turn it into,
you have lost. But there are not many
who will attempt to do 1.-THE W.
Rural and Am. Stockman.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
The Crime Question.

The increase in crime has become a pre-
valent phrase. Indeed we have heard it so
frequently and we have heard it so long ago
that we have come to regard it as one OF the
cardinal tenets in popular belief Doubt
less there are more criminals in this
country now than there were fifty years
ago, but if stopped right there the propo-
sition would mislead the average reader
The increase in crime in this country is due
almost solely to an increase OF population,
and especially to an enormous unguarded
and indiscriminate immigration. Hun
dreds of thousands of strangers, Ignorant
alike our language, our laws and our
social customs, the virtuous and the vile,
come together, and we make no civil dis
tinction between them.
But we believe that prevalent faith in
the increase in crime is largely, II not
wholly, false. 1t grows in part out OF the
easy and rapid means of communication
which are peculiar to our age. A man sits
down at his breakfast table to-day and with
hurried eye takes in at glance nearly
all the felonies that were committed in
every quarter of the country yesterday.
Our forefathers could hardly have heard
of the Whitchapel murders in less than
month Virgirs swift Rumor was very
slow affair compared to the electric wire
or even cannon ball train, or a trans-At-
lantic steamer. But steam and lightning
have induced the press to publish every
thing. The consequence is that its columns
are too often filled with the trivial and
the horrible We would not say that
every,act of crime should be ignored. There
are times when it is the first duty of the
nress IN lend all its force to iuStice-timeS
when not to do so should be counted as rec
reancy and cowardice. But to publish
every thing in the way of SANDER and scan
dalous personality deprives the pure
minded reader of great deal of pleasant
and instructive matter because there is not
space enough left for it.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
A Letter From Southwestern Louisi-
ana to Great Britain.

There can be no question that the only
probable or possible relief is to emigrate
where they can own the land they Guilt
vate. But the question is, where is the
best place to emigfate to? The one draw
back in emigrating to the British colonies
is their great distance from England, the
home market, except Canada, but the long
winter of Canada is it greatest drawback,
more especially the Northwestern section.
From my observation and experience,
after living in the United States six years
since leaving England, two years in Iowa,
one of the Northern States, and four years
in Louisiana, | have no hesitation in rec
ommending those who wish to emigrate to
try and better themselves to come to the
United States. but more especially to Lou
isiana or some other of the Southern States.
Here the soil is good and lands cheap,
with mild and equable climate, and
where such an endless variety of things
can be grown that it is almost impossible
to enumerate them it is the land of sugar,
corn, cotton, watermelons, fruits of all
kinds, including oranges, near the Gulf
coast. Lands can be bought at from els.
to GO per acre, with easy time for pay
ment there is also some State and United
States or government land still open to set
tiers under the homestead acts by the pay
ment of e5 for 100 acres of land.
Here we are near good markets, with only
fourteen days from Liverpool. OF Louis
lana, and the Southern States, in gen
eel, little was known in England, or even
to the people of the States farther North,
with regard to its soil, climate, it's re-
sources or capabilities, until within the
last four or five years, when an immigra-
ton set in for warmer climate, and to
escape the long, cold winters of all the
northern States. The reason of this is,
the people of the South have taken no
means to induce immigration they have
not advertised their country to the outside
world, but the spirit of progress is now
moving them in that direction by holding
agricultural conventions, establishing i'm
migration bureaus, trying to induce steam
ship companies trading between Liver
pool and New Orleans to carry emigrants
at cheap rates the railroad com panies
have promised low rates to emigrants.
would advise all hard working farmers
who find it difficult to make both ends
meet not to hesitate about coming here,
where they can build up good and COM
Portable homes, and own the soil they Gull
tivate.
To come over take the steamer to New
York, thence by rail, but the cheapest and
easiest way is by steamer direct to New
Orleans do not delay coming whilst the
land is cheap. I shall be pleased to give
any information desired either through
your columns, or by private letter ; will
also show some of these lands free of cost,
advise how to build, also cheapest and
best way of living, rate of wages, and any
other desired information.
Trusting this may induce many to bet
ter their condition in life is the wish of
JAMES MAUND,
Jennings P. O., Louisiana, o. S. A.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
Progress of immigration to Louisiana.

In addition to the immediate results in
bringing people to Louisiana the efforts
of the State immigration Association has
given vigorous impetus to the cause of
immigration throughout Louisiana There
is not a town or parish in the State which
does not feel at the present time the throb
bings of newly awakened zeal and an
inspiration toward the development of all
it's resources The press of the State,
also, is moved by this strong impulse that
seeks, in the accession of industrious set
tiers and the establishment of industrial
enterprises, to add to the prosperity and
importance of town or parish. Certainly,
before the Association began its work, the
hope of obtaining immigration to the State
was not so lively as it is now.
Much as the Association has done, its
work and it's scope have largely depended
on the means at its command. Money has
not been forthcoming as literally as it
should from the parishes which, after all,
are the first and most direct beneiciaries
of the immigration which may come to
them through the efforts of the Associa
ton. This should not be SO, and if the
people of the various parishes thoroughly
comprehended their own interests they
. would not only support literally, as is
proper and reasonable their own auxiliary
parish immigration Associations, to the
State immigration Association, but they,
also, would provide ample funds for the
latter which, from it's central situation and
superior advantages can, as It does, work
more effectively for the good of all. Those
in charge of the Association have worked
gratuitously, as all the money received has
gone to the purpose of helping to populate
the State.
The Teche Pilot of recent date con-
tains letter from it's New Orleans cores
pondent which gives some insight into the
result achieved by the State immigration
Association. After promising that the
| office of the Association was opened at 10y
| Common street, and placed in charge OF
those who still conduct it, the correspon-
dent continues; With the funds given
them by some of the parishes AID by pri-
vate individuals who realized the great
ness of the project to advance the wealth
and resources of Louisiana, by populating
her unused lands have succeeded in put
ting into operation the greatest movement
that was ever made to enrich the South.
We have too much land and too few peo-
pie.
The efforts of the immigration associa-
tions have been crowned with success.
Every trip of their agents to the North is
| more productive of good than the last;
parties of $50 men with families are COM
ing down. There are towns now doing
good business that year ago were I'M
known. St. Tammany boasts of several
new settlements. Tangipahoa, Acadia and
Calcasieu hold within their fertile borders
| thriving towns that few years ago scarce
| ly possessed name or site, This can be
said of many other parishes of the State.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
A New Variety of Oranges.

The socalled "kink orange" was intro
duced into California from Cochin China
through an American consul. The tree is
very thorny, the limbs grow more upright
than others, and the fruit is pronounced
superior to any ever brought to alifornia.
According to an agricultural authority,
there is also an orange in Siam called the
sking,' that is described as having trans
parent green skin when ripe and q pink
pulp that can be seen through the skin,
and of most delicate flavor. The fruit
is in such high esteem that it is per
quisite of the royal family, and subjects
are not allowed to es4 it. Any one finding
one of these trees growing on hiy premises
is obliged to give notice to an officer at
once or be decap:tated. San Francisco
GbronSc7e
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
How to Become Independent.

Henry Clay, in one of his speeches, gives
to the farmers this advice, as one of the
surest ways Of getting rich Buy, says he,
only those things which you cannot produce
on your farms, and sell all you do not need
for yourselves and families"
This advice contains self evident truth.
Why then should the planters buy jute
bagging to wrap their cotton, when they
can do it just as we'll with a cloth or stuff
fabricated out of their cotton.
But there is another reason why the cot
ton planters should do everything in their
power, to combat the Jute Trust Company,
and this is because it is well known fact.
that there is in all monopolies tendency
to Cypress the laboring man and the pro
Queer, with a, view of controlling all the in
dustries of the country in the interest Of
the capitalis!s.-sug0r Bosol and Farm
Journal
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
Clinton, La.
THE TAP ROAD TO BE PUT IN GOOD oRDE

THE TAP ROAD TO BE PUT IN GOOD oRDEB.
CLINTON, Feb. by order of the
mayor and board of aldermen of the town
of Clinton, special election was held to-
day to vote tax of five mills for ten years
to aid the Mississippi Valley railroad in
putting the Clinton and Port Hudson rail-
road in tirst-class order and extending the
depot up to the market house in the center
of the town. The vote was unanimous for
the tax This will in the near future
give Clinton a through train to New Or
leans, which will allow passengers to
make the trip to the city and back in one
day.-N 0. Times Democrat
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
He Wanted a Preacher.

A good old colored brother thus sent
word to the bishop to send minister out
to preach to his church in Alexandria
valley last Sunday 'Send US bishop to
preach. If you can't send US a bishop
send US sliding elder; if you can't send
US sliding elder send us a stationary
preacher; if you can't send him, send US a
circus rider if you can't spare him send US
a locust preacher; if you can't spare a
locust preacher send us an exhauster."
That settled it, and he got a preacher
Alabama Waterman.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23

The Prohibitionists Of jackson, Miss,
are fully determined to have the local OPP
ton law enforced. They say more is in
volved in this election than the mere
question of whiskey or no whiskey. The
law prohibits the giving away of intoxi-
eating liquors as well as the selling.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
The Cotton BeIt's New Line.

ST. LOUIS, Feb 14-On next Sunday
the Cotton Belt (St. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas road will open up new road be-
tween Maiden, Ark, and Delta, Mo-,
forming a connection with the Iron Noun
tain at the latter place. The new line is
so miles in length.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23

1--WE venture the assertion says the
Pontotoc MISSY Democrat, "that the
colored people of Pontotoc country subscribe
for more newspapers and read them and
pay for them, and are more highly enlight-
ened, in proportion to population, than
any other county in the State"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
.ocac Nahra ska Minnesota SnC

Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and DaKOCH
are rapidly filing up to-day. There is but
little territory remaining to settle, save on
the Pacific slope. The movement of popu-
lation westward has about reached its
maximum, and the central Western States
are actually falling off in their agricultural
distrjcs.
1t is expecting much to believe that the
tide which peopled the West will now
pour into the South? They are gradually
coming from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and
Minneaota. 1t seems strange that the
country north of the Ohio should maintain
a population of sixty five to the square
mile, and that to the south only thirty-two,
as the southern half is certainly as rich, as
productive, as fertile and as suitable for
habitstion in every pect.-1tmes Demo-
crat
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23

There is an old man in Chicesterville, in
the Catskills, who always speaks out in
meeting. Recently city divine preached
in the little Methodist Church of the viii
lage, and the old man became so excited at
one or two home thrusts in the sermon
which seemed to apply to certain neigh
Dor that he got up and shouted That's
right, youngster, hit i'm again And
later on, when the sermon appeared to
torian tones: "That's so, b'gosh. We're
all sinners, ev'ry burned one of us.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
immigration.

TIE Tide of interstate immigration West
ward has passed its maximum, 1t built
up the West, as it will now build up the
South. During the past sixty years this
movement has been as follows: Move
ment of people to the far Western States
north Of the Ohio river, from the East
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23

'Ma,' said Bobby, thoughtfully, II
wish had brother or two Why,
Bobby TO divide up the spanking.
Its tough on boy to be the only one III
the family that gets spanked"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23
.Widder jenkins, " said an Ohio farmer

"Widder Jenkins, said an Ohio farmer,
as he hustled into her house one morning,
II am man of business. am worth
$40. 800. and want you for wife. give
you three minutes in which 20 answer.
az don't want ten seconds, old man" she
replied, as she shook out the nisn ciotn.
II am woman of business, worth 3D.
900, and wouldn't marry you # you were
the last man on earth. give you min
ute and half to git.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23

c..ara, sherman has pensioned his
uenu asa aPrince," with q farmer near
val nota pa. The general says that all
L ,ssIJ war horses have gone, and he
she o. - Init one that ever shifted battle
s a Is still alive.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-23

: Mistress Mary, have you made the
dressing for the turkey 2" Mary-"Sure,
ma'am, an I've made his pants, but Pm
havin' hard work wild his coat, for it's no
samestress am at all, at all."-Bufalo
Courier