Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-05-02
EXPERIMENTS IN ITS CULTURE
NOW BEING MADE.
RESULTS SATISFACTORY
But the Ultimate Outcome as Yet
bIematic-Growth of Plants
Gradual and Good-Nesro not we'll
Fitted for the Niceties of the Bust.
ness, Thinks One Grower.

one or the more important industries
of Louisiana, says the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, although at this time
the outcome of experiments now being
made is largely pToblematical Out at
the Louisiana experimental station DR..
w. c.. Stubs, who is in charge of the
station, is conducting an elaborate ex-
pertinent, and up to this time the re-
suits have been thoroughly satisfac-
| tory. He has an area of comfortable
size with $50 tea plants. They have
grown until they now range from six
| inches to one foot in height. &hey
are healthy, yigorous-lOokng plants,
and If any injurious influences are at
work, no traces of them can be found
| in the present colony of the plants
| The growth has been gradual and
healthy in every particular, and DR..
Stubs is sanguine, so far as the physi-
cal possibilities are concerned.
He says there is no reason why
| Louisiana should not grow an elabo.
rate tea crop, and the tea would be
equal in quality to that grown in
China. There would be one drawback.
He was not 50 sanguine about the
south's ability to manufacture tea, on
account of the character of labor in
this section. The negro could not be
depended upon to do the work. He
would find it difficult to master the
tedious processes necessary in getting
the article into useful and market
able share. This work had received
special attention in South Carolina,
where tea culture had been carried on
with much success by Dr.. Charles u
Shepherd. But it had been neces-
sary Tor Or. Shepherd to educate negro
children, in order to have the crop
handled. He had established in CON
ncction with his place school of
pirkaninnies, and they were taught
how to gather tea leaves and how to
handle them in all their processes of
manufacture.
"Uore in Iouisiana said Dr
snbbe eve are oven in = better nosi.
tior to euccoeefnllv cultivate tea than
thev aro IN South Carolina Our
notr,oI odvartoooe oive nc tho first ro-
,,iroparte Tho toa nIant demands
damn coil We arc walI aorinnad in
tbie resnect Whatever we lack in
thie roenact can he ovorcome NV h-
aootio, Tho rlo,te IN coIloctior
have not suffered on this account, and
they are now in a thoroughly healthy
condition, No blighting Influences are
at work, so far as present indications
go. and | am inclined to believe that,
in a physical sense. there will be no
sort of trouble about tea culture in the
state of Louisiana. If we had few
Cinnamon to handle it, or a class of
laborers equally as skilled in the de-
tails of the work. | Am sure we would
experience no serious trouble in max.
ing tea culture an elaborate and
profitable industry. However, | am
concerned now simply in studying the
question of the plants adaptability to
Louisiana soil The question of the
character of labor necessary in its
culture and manufacture Is another
matter, and il is not necessary to deal
with II at this time have bepn watch.
ing nv plants with much concern. and
probably within the next wear | will
be able to give ont an Intelligent state.
ment with reference to the the experi
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