St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-08
Az ficulturaI Notes.


address before the Louisiana Farmers
meeting at Arcadia last week which was
highly appreciated and from which we
glean few of his good expressions as
follows:
He opened the discussion by stating that
he drafted the bill seven years since which
gave the experiment stations to the people
as the gift of the national government
He reasoned on the vaus of diversified
farming and the better conditions growing
out of home consumption of supplies.
He considered the in provement of stock
as an important factor IN an improvement
of State interest.
He said this State is now importing all
Of its fancy stock and that in truth il
should be exporting these in large guam
titles.
He gave comparison between Louisi-
ana and other States in maintaining all
which should bring wealth, comfort and
happiness to Louisiana
He suggested that manufacturing inter-
ests be established in each parish, and
even in many instances little industries on
the farms.
He urged the need Of our manufacturing
much of which is now purchased and trans
ported from long distances.
He said that statistics of cities and ma
lions showed that when sundry industries
were we'll established greater wealth pre-
vailed than when the communities were
sustained by few staple products
The manufacturing interest mskes its
money out Of its by products, while the
farmer now makes vast, :. out of much
the manufacturer would maze into by pro-
dg9 h ar and thus would be the profit
His argument assumed the shape of in
ternational agriculture an1 he stated that
our national government had done less for
agriculture than European governments
and as q natural result these advanced
agricultural conditions, with cheaper labor,
were advancing on the markets heretofore
held b. the products of the United States.
Our cheap lands are one of our redeeming
features In this matter.
F L Maxwell, of Madison, road an elab-
crate essay on grass culture, setting forth
that the cotton crop is not profitable and
that the hay crop is larger and more pro-
itable than cotton, and concludes that hay
farms are an important factor in plantation
work, and suggests that the large cotton
crop be dropped as quickly as possible and
that diversified farming take it's place.
He is planting Irish potatoes grasses, cane
and cabbage for marketing purposes, and
raising several kinds of stock In this
wav, he concludes Louisiana can produce
what any other SECTION can, and much
which cannot he grown elsewhere.
Judge N. M. Smiths address was on
Small Farms Well Titled" He consid-
cred that the object was more intensive
farming, and his mission to induce those
who now cultivate large acreage rather
than products of the soil to discontinue
the old methods and adopt the plan of less
acreage and more products. He considers
that ten to fifteen acres to the hand is all
that should ba attempted in intensive
farming. His address covered all the de.
tails of his experience in intensive farm
work, and was an exposition of it's mapy
benefits,
Prof. s. A. Knapp said that he had been
visited recently by gentlemen of Scotland,
Germany and England, who were going to
invt st and colonize on the low lands of
Louisiana He said that in ratio to its
agricultural products at the rate of per
cent interest, our lands should be valued
at 800 per acre.
M White told about his first years ex-
nerience with cane, his other crops were
failures and he realized 5000 out of his
cane which kept him in cash while his
neiehbors who had no cane to fall back on
had no money!
Judge Emile HRost read an instructive
essay on THE Progress in the Cultivation
and Manufacture Nof Sugar." giving the
figures in product in different decades Of
twenty years and under different systems.
He said that the presept system OF sugar
growing and manufacturing was with half
of the labor of twenty years since, and the
yield was double the ahnount OF sugar 10
the ton of cane of that lime and that diff
fusion will bring even dbuble the present
output per ton.
Hon. John Dymond> made an ad-
dress on "Homes in Louisiana for
ALI" He said the romance of Louisiana
of many years ago is yet held to be the
same by those of other States, while in
truth it is under q new dawn of prosperity
and civilization, and THAI it can through
it's rich soil produce several times as much
as any other State. When these matters
are known and understood its cheap lands
will double up in value worry fast, as they
will be in great demand. and Louisiana
says to the people of other States: Come
here and make your homes and you shall
ever be welcome" Prof. Knapp says that
until recent years Louisiana lands could
not be put on the markets., but that IN
recent years the great value OF It's lands
was made known, and now it had
status on the mon2yed markets
of Europe.