The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-10-29
Stock Raising and Cotton Raising

from the National Live Stock he
porter, published at the Nationai
Stock Yards, ST. Louis. 1t should
be read by all interested in cotton
culture:
is difficult for the Southern peo-
Gle of the United States to reduce
4 cotton raising from being their 'are,
est farm production Notwithstanding
i is at times bound to be an unpron,-
Lilo crop. Cotton is about the
cheapest crop to SOW, the longes, 70
mature. the most expensive to mar
vest but it is cash crop and at the
time of planting it always looks
nore profitable than at the time OF
the harvest. There are many rea-
SONS why cotton will always be
great crop in the South and lit mas
ms and downs, so has wheat, corn
and other crops. The difficulty is
that too much cotton is raised one
wear after another and while cotton
raisers all agree that the acreage
sown ought to be greatly reduced
thew are all determined that some
one else shall make the reduction
, while they obtain the benefit OF 1t
and so the reduction is never brought
about. "All the cotton districts are
in distress from low prices and all
0 the live stock districts are dong
!, well.n That is what we hear from
: tho Sontb The natural remark is:
"Why don't the Southern people
olive up raising cotton and raise live
ii stock instead?" The answer is that
h the planters cannot so readily jump
from one line of business TO the
. other. 1t takes money to buy live
u stock and it takes time, labor and
material to turn cotton farm into
even partial use as stock farm.
l. While it is safe to predict that
,r cotton will always be the great staple
,e crop of the South present appearan'
IA ces also indicate that stock raising
- is becoming more and more a busl
US ness South and East of the Mlssls
sippi than formerly and it is finding
a place without causing any vloien
ut displacement of any other industry
There are thousands of different cir
II. cumstances which govern individual
., in their farming operations and wha
one can do successfully another can
III not do at all, Notwithstanding az
noororcos Indicate much the sam
conditions in both cases. But stoc
in raising is a growing industry and
,li- will continue to. grow. The extef
his to which 1--we stock raising is becon
70 ing a Southern industry is best e.
- emplitied by stating that IN MN
esS months of the present year Alabam'
an Louisiana and Mississippi combine
have sent l 200 cars of cattle dire
to the market at St. Louis beside
to those that went to other markets al
md half as many more to people
~ Texas and the Indian Territor.
'o'' these being finished on 9th
AIRY grounds lose their identity beto
to coming to market. The signlhcan
can of this statement requires explain
ton and is given in the asserti'
that in years gone by dozen cars
;o.> cattle has been a liberal yearly r.
~ to St. Louis from the three stat
named.
last 1t is good sign that the increas
: of revenues came from live stock ra
her. ing without being the cause of mu
fes- shrinkage in other lines of industl
- This is only history repeating ltse
.. 1t used to be thought in Texas Il
Sno' farming displaced stock ralslr
AIM whereas it appears now that whe
the ever the largest farm crops
raised there also can be found
largest finishing and marketing
,cky live stock, simply because the
onio terests are mutually beneficl
49, Although arrivals OF Southern cal
oos show the most distinct increase, I
acKy and sheep raising are also increas
lates industries which are entitled to
The credit as a recent creation or revlV
, or Another word is necessary to
that understanding of the situation.
Is that the commercial side or
''s live stock subject is so much be-
than formerly. 1t used to be I
only fattened and finished beef
says tie had a profitable place in mari
ather Other states furnished young ca
rmer by the hundreds of thousands
pay this surplus kept the door
sbe,s against marketing nearly all the
tie of the South because they "
'. decidedly deficient in fat beeves
Twice no other kind would stand the
cost pense of transportation and othe
or of cidents Of sale. Happily the
led is duced supplies of other fields
opened up a stock cattle dem
that has rendered cattle raising n
,opis than usually profitable just as co
raising is at one Of its low peri
Caldwell parish is the next ps
' in the State to raise the liquor lice