St. Landry democrat., 1890-11-01
The Southern Exhibit

Looking at the semi-tropical display OF
the Southern exhibit over against the oorth
wall of the Palace, it is hard for
northern man to realize that the States
represented are part of the same country
of which he is citizen. Rice and hgs
and oranges and cot on and alligators have
q PARKWAY flavor that it is hard for the
native Mort westerner tO associate Win
Uncle Sans domain.
Beginning at the east the first section
of the grand Southern exhibit, presided
over by s. L. Cary, agent of the Southern
Pacific. represents the products of South
west Louisiana in general. Sugar cane;
rice and cotton are shown as the principal
crops in the order named.
The sugar cane yields about twenty tons
ner acre, giving profit of IS per ton to
both the farmer and the manufacturer
Ri a is now handled in the same manner
"a wheat is in the North. But five years
ago the Carolinas led in the production of
this cereal, doing the labor in the old
fashioned way, by hand, The introduction
of machinery has given Louisiana the iead.
! Cotton grows bale to the acre ana Sells
at $50 per bale.
Among the fruits shown are pears, hgs,
| peaches, oranges, white cherries, plums,
apples aud the nectarine. very peculiar
| fruit. the Japan plum, blossoms in De-
cember and is ripe in March. The tree is
an evergreen and is very ornamental.
| Sweet potatoes, vans, larger variety
of the sweet potato much sweeter than the
ordinary article; Irish potatoes that yield
two crops year. corn and other vege y
tables familiar here are shown.
Rock salt from an island in the Gulf OF
Mexico, few miles from New Iberia, La
said to be the purest in the world, is
shown. There are 80, O0O,O0 tons above
water in sight, and borings 100 feet doWr
fail to 60 through it. 1t is W per CEN
pure, 49,,
Spanish moss is product from which
much is hoped. 1t grows pendant from
the trees naturally, is inexhaustaole anf
is becoming very valuable as an article o
adopted it for upholsteriDg.
claimed to be q very superior article fol
keeping out the rain.
Cot on seed oil is represented as yer.
versatile product. Refined it passes TO
olive oil and it also masq aerades as butte
and lard.
A little alligator three weeks old, which
.
: of eating, is an attraction.
Cslcasieu parish is the home OF the ex
, patriated Acadians of which Longfello'
q sings in Evangeline. In the southwes
part of the State principally in this reglor
= there are now 10000 Northern people
Nine tenths of the people here are white
Among the curiosities the dish rag at
tracts grea. deal of attention. ln al
pea snce it resembles mammoth cucum
o Der. The fioer which fills the sh-ll, wit
I a few ribbons for trimmings, make bon
net fit to attend the opera in. After tn
>era it can be utilized "a dish rag
q G asses of many KINDS are shown.
Cotton is shown twelve feet high an
!, = W III 300 bolls. Broom corn fourteen fe'
ugh is on exhibition. Pop corn with SIEVE
4 ears to the stalk make the farmers stare
. Flax and ramie plant, which is expecte
to take the place of fax for linen and
beat the silk worm at his own game, a
4 on exhibition. What is known as il
- panese silk is the product of the ram
plant. The fiber is from six to fourtes
= feet long.
q Among the woods shown are cypres
n hickory, ash, holly, burr oak, hard pin
sweet gum, q wood that can't be spill
q white and red oak and very peculi
wood called the pepper wood.
"a Fine pears and grapes are shown, al
~ peaches that yield two crops.
:" Several varieties of gourds are on exh
"a ton. A specimen of the kind call
d Jonah's gourd, as big as peck measu
" and filled with very large black walnut
!. is great curiosity. 1t has been in u
for thirty years.
20 Louisiana syrup, before the commissi'
n man had "whack" at it. is an object
"a interest. The gentleman in charge e
"a plains that the syrup of commerce tn
"a gets North is mostly the residue of t
"a sugar mill sweetened with glucose Al
~ otherwise doctored. People who tast
ID this pronounced it away ahead of t.
grocery store stuff.
y Cotton seed meal, which is used as
az stock food and fertilizer, and cotton
are products on exhibition.
! A beautiful cassava, a Spanish Anne
20 can plant, is the cause of many qaeri'
From its root the familiar tapioca is mac
,r Among the grasses are crab grass, meade
oak grass, Bermuda grass and carpet era
NJ -Siour City Journal.