The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1890-03-15
NO. 35.
Agricultural Notes.

q
n touching the vast and varied resources O
Louisiana. We feel that we are acouaintet
n with this subject and that We are neithe
~ booming lands for our own benefit. mo-
;, blowing horn to call immigrants in thi.
> direction.
h The 2, ,493, 900 acres of prairie comprise
much very rich land ALL of these lands
. are suitable for pasturage.
q AT present, oysters, shrimp and fish
! DIing an income annually of over s.. 900. -
y OOO to those engaged in these industries.
? Louisiana has more than 5000, 900 acres
OF pine land the other 10000, 900 acres
are most of them very rich, the rest very
! good.
In 1879 cane was cultivated on only 1S1.-
OQO.--seres in % parishes. --SuR0r cane
grows very well in all Of the parishes in
the pine lands.
On the good uplands and bluff lands.
the prstries and other lands, the State
may make 100000 bales of cotton, and
largely more than that.
Louisiana has 8, ,615, 900 acres of arabic
SIluVial land we'll adapted to the sugar
crop, and millions of acres of other lands
well adapted to this crop.
When jute and ramis machines coma
10 the front as an actual success, Louisi-
ana mas lands that may produce these two
| crops and bear grass and other fiber crops
in almost limitless quantitiis.
The 6.6OJ, ,OOC acres of pine land. CON-
sldered the poorest lands in the State NAV
Do made to rank with the best of lands in
the production of fruits, vegetables and
grasses, and most all farm crops.
Louisiana, on her arabic alluvial lands
alone, may make more than !, ZOO, 900 tons
or S'OOO,OOO hogSheads of sugar yearly,
ana moIasses in proportion, more than
enough to supply the United States.
The 1857, 900 acres of bluff lands ara
among the best in the State-easy of culu.
Vation, very productive forests on these
lands OF tall and noble oaks, ash, magnolia.
gum'cottonwOOd and other fine timber.
The 3,615,OO0 acres of arabic alluviaI
iands are among the richest lands in Amer.
lea Some of these lands produced six
nogsheads of sugar to the acre, or more
than three tons, in one season, besides the
mOlssses.
The fruit and vegetable business NAV be
greatly extended canning fruits and vegs-
tables and shrimp, oysters and fish NAV
yet bling many million dollars to the State
annually and forever If these Industries
are Judiciously managed.
Manufacturing cotton snd woolen goods
from cotton and wool made in the State.
q ana manufacturing jute and rRmie, may
become important branches Of ind2stTT
Our damp climate is admirably adaptsd IN
cotton and wcolen yarns.
The timber resources of the State, cy-
press, Plne' OAK, ash, magnolia, gum, etc,
will be turned to valuable account. Wood,
sn"ate ;a ar factories, paper factories for work
Farmers are learning not only how to
make two blades of grass grow where one
grew before, but how to make 10 bushels
Of corn and 10 bushels of wheat grow
where one grew before. And they have
learned how to kill grass and weeds in
their crops much faster than formerly.
These arabic lands of Louisiana made
nearly fifth of the rice crop of the United
States in 1879, and can devote a million
acres to rice on large surfaces in the south
ern and sugar parishes that are too wet for
sugar cane. There were but AZ, 900 acres
a rice in 1879. The State has lands for
wo or three million barrels of clean rice,
80 pounds net to the barrel.
The 338, 900 acres of coast marsh. and b
Ne may add l 100000 acres of shallow
;Oast bays and lakes, which may be re-
claimed like the marshes and lakes of Hol-
and, may all become productive and val
liable. Hollander who has acted as en-
yineer in reclaiming the wet lands of Hol-
and, visited these marshes of Louisiana
Iome years since and pronounced the soil
better than that of Holland.
If the State were highly cultivated and
and supplied with all the best
ools and farm machinery of modern times
nd
wood, iron and various
metals, and cotton, wool, silk, ramie, iute.
,tc., that the State might sell from farm
md factory and all other labor sources a
billion dollars worth of products annu-
lily. ($1,0OO, 1000, ,OO0.)
Louisiana may excel any other State in
Ter hay and grass crops, and in breeding
attle, mules and horses, and hogs. The
ea marshes are the hogs empire. Dairy
ng may in time become exceedingly pro-
table in this State, where tons Of Ber-
nuda hay may be made from an acre, and
single acre Of white clover and Bermuda
,rass may keep COW seal fat from March
o December. We have seen this done in
Outhern Louisiana.
If Louisiana soil were as well cultivated
IS it will be in the next century, or as well
md generally cultivated as some of the
'ther Western States, its productions
would simply be astounding. Notice these
acts: Louisiana has 40, 900 square miles
'f land besides water surface, shallow
axes and bays that may be reclaimed and
or 20 000, 900 acres cultivated
n 1878, 1,700, 900; not cultivated in 1878,
q, 300, 600; reckoning Is acres cultivated
q the hand, 113, 1888 hands population of
louisiana in 1870, 726, 915 not engaged in
agriculture, 613,5S2. Possibly 100000
'cres Of land out Of over 26, ZOO, 900 acres
q the State will be cultivated in 1890.
Considerable Of this surface is in pine land
arms. Many of them cultivated with
ight teams, poor plows and poor supply
Il farming utensils generally, and usually
he land not fertilized.
The BrookhaVen (Miss.) Leader says:
Probably the oldest man living in Lincoln
ounty Is Mr.. James Stewart, who is 101'
ears OF age. He is an interesting person
ge. He lives with an unmarried daugh-
or on steWart's creek, eight miles south
vest of Brookhaven. M, Steward was
me OF the earliest settlers of Mississippi,
laving come when young with his father,
ohm Stewart. to the territory eighty-fve
ears ago and taking up his residence in
What was afterwards Lawrence county, in
lie same neighborhoOd where he now
ives. He is well preserved man, in good
lealth, and last year worked In the field
nd made tolerably good crop. He has
ived under all the presidents, from
Washington to Harrison, and voted at
very presidential election since the State
vas admitted to the Union in 1917. He
las always been hard working farmer,
nd never made use of tobacco in any
orm. Long may he live and prosper.