St. Landry democrat., 1889-04-06

will be certain. We ought to commend
our Lespedezo strata Japan clover Ber
muda grass, and. the various paspaiums
carpet grass), as wonderful summer
grasses but space forbids. Suffice it tc
say, that with proper management by com
bining the summer and winter grasses (all
the former we rank as winter grasses, pas
ture of the most 1uxuriant and nutritious
character can be had the year round. Hay.
making from carpet grass has become
pronounced industry among the immi-
grants in Southwest Louisiana. We ex-
pect to see Timothy hay exported from
New Orleans to New York by sea, in Large
quantities, within the next ten years, the
product of Louisiana's soil.
We ought not to forget what large
business is horse-raising in Southwest
louisiana the famous "Attakapas,' living
on grass the year round and with health,
fulness and bottom having no rival In the
country.
Sheep and hogs do superbly. The reasons
are easily explicable. In grass they have
the most healthful of foods almost the year
round; and, if the cultivated grasses, here
tofore mentioned be seeded, pasture can
be had the year round. In the forests
there is a great variety of "mast. !" many
varieties of the hickory nut, the pecan,
many varieties of the oak, beech. etc. Then
hogs find a great many worms and Other
food, and have the exercise of unlimited
range. The breeds that are an undoubted
success, are Poland China, Berkshire, Els
sex and Jersey Red or Ddroc. OF course the
"natives" are included. Some of them
grow to good size, and they are very hardy.
The Guinea, too, may be included.
Sheep are very healthful, and even in
the parishes where the country, being gen.
orally very level, would seem to be against
them, because, to the superficial observer,
not giving them dry enough "foot, great
success has attended the industry. The
animal is very fecund in Louisiana sew
enty five per cent increase per annum be-
ing an estimate within bounds. Their wool
is even fbred and is in demand. In much
of the area it is not BURY" Owing to
their healthfulness, twins are common, and
sometimes triplets are born. Not being
subject to the many diseases incident to
the transition from green food to dry in
winter, and from dry to green food in
spring, and other complaints of rigorous
climate, but having green food (herbiver,
Gus sustenance) all the year here, they
have almost no diseases. "Scab' we be-
lieve is unknown and foot-rot rare. The
only thing that may be accounted an enemy
is the ubiquitous cur, and this will be 9
declining impeachment, as the years roll by
and in parts of the State is an insignificant
obstacle.
Before passing from the topic of live,
stock, we ought not to fail to impress the
fact that young mules and horses incur nc
set back or ''stunt" here, but grow right
on through winter. Another most striking
fact is that both these animals, owing tt
the mildness of cur climate, are remarka
bly, free from troubles of the throat ano
lungs. And mules seldom have the "big
jaw"
The most unobservant traveller, il
the richer lands of Louisiana, mus
surely have noticed how wonder
fully white clover thrives there.
lasts, much if not all the year, but is at it,
best from December to June. In the lati
tude of New Orleans, it is sometimes in
bloom by the middle of January, and il
our richest lands frequently attains the
height of fifteen to eighteen inches.
Red clover has been tried at man.
points in the State. In some parts it il
growing in profusion, for miles along
headrows, and near the tracks of railroads
Timothy is another grass that has bee1
more or less sown, and that demonstrate
it's adaptation to our soil and climate.
Kentucky Blue grass is beginning t.
make its way Zone knows not how ant
scarcely can a locality be found wher
more or less of it cannot be seen. Th
fewNho have seeded it, we think, ar
satisfed.with it, and in combination will
Bermuda grass, it will, in few years, b
the favorite with the intelligent stock
raiser for perpetual evergreen pasture
| The Bermuda is the most nutritious of al
grasses is never killed, and rarely in
iured by any drought; will support
greater number of stock to given area
than any grass known; and is good pastur
from May or April according to latitude)
until killing frost. Kentucky Blue gras
comes in when the Bermuda gives way
and continues until the Bermuda is i
force in spring. They flourish together
and will last indefinitely and thus, on tn
same area, the greatest two grasses of th
world flourish on evergreen pasture il
definitely.
Meadow Fescue we have never see
tried but from the way it holds on
Audubon park, where it was sown durin
the late great Exposition, it would seel
to be all that could be desired, as a wintt
grass. 1t is there wonderfully luxurian
and has been subjected to repeated sun
mer mowings for four or five years.
Of other grasses, we have not SO sati
factory knowledge; but all natural col
ditions are even more favorable here tina
in our sister State of Mississippi, where a
most all grasses known have been for yea
demonstrated an unquestionable success.
VARIOUS CROPS.
The Immigrant ought to be assured th
he need not quit the crops of his old hon
by coming to Louisiana. If he prefers
not try rice, sugar cane, cotton or peas,
can raise corn, oats, rye, barley, wheat an
buckwheat. These last three many ms
tell him he cannot raise but it is not tt
fact.
AS to corn and oats, some prodigior
crops have been raised and at scarcely an
agricultural fair but one or more prize
are awarded for over one hundred bushe
of corn per acre.
We desire to emphasize the point tn,
our future agriculture Will De pro MINI
in production of sea-island cotton. 1t hs
been successfully raised between New O.
leans and Mobile years ago; and there
no reason why our gulf front, west of Ne
Orleans, may not thus be utilized.
SUGAR.
Our sugar industry is promised revt
luton under the diffusion process, an
the epoch of central refneries and sma
farms will then come in vogue. Th
land owner will raise cane, and sell it {
so much per ton, to the sugar refine
From fifteen to forty tons per acre can t
raised at cost of one dollar and fit
cents, after the cane is planted, whic
costs say, ten dollars per acre. At lea