The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-06-19
go SOUTH YOUNG MAN."
Z. caJy's Reply &c an Article in
ine Decatur. Ill.,, Herald.


Noticing in your paper several
saips Of lands IN your Vicinity at
&lC0 tn $3.50 per acre, and that
some al these parties were IN !
vesting in fetrminglands ia South
west Louisiana at $40 to $50 per
acre, the question came to my
mind naturally, and 10 yours aud
also t, your lnauy readers, are
thpS.. men acting wisely in sol
doing?
Possibly | may answer that
ques ion more int~lligently for
having lived ten years near Free
port, l!i., over thirty years in
| lowe, AID almost nineteen years
in ;S..u Invest Louisiana, ut Jen-
niu".-, al all times an owner Of
ana =, ii .aler in real estate.
I'uers, is 10 doubt about the
lands, "f the great St;Il, OF illinois
b-iu@ worth $500 toS!3O per acre,
as W. are how on IL ) per cent
basis, ;tld lands being the best
security on earth, mnstbc worth
AL they pay per cent upon.
{ ui~iana lands selling at $50 to
$50: AS the selling price of any
article Is generally the best opin.
ion of Inc best men III the market
are tin, Louisiana lands, any eX-
cep'iGu to the rule,and if SO, Why
k.'-.hteon years ago these same
ianGs were held at 10! cents to
&l25 per acre Why: In part
because the pirates Ltiitte and
Kidd took possession of the coast
about one hundred years ago,
found il admirably adapted to
their purposes, and reported to
tho world Il eds mai swamp"
Tie Acadian settler perfectly
| haNnV IL having escaped from
\ .r.s Scotia and his English op
pra&-nrs, WITS contented 30 be
| ~ along in the paradise of Am
e, "a. and as he styled it "Ihe
i,d,.u If Louisiana.
t'in" Diut, the drop of ink, the
81. ,;I,t OF IL TnIlariouS swamp,
was written all over our early
m@uo.ivs by geography and his
EO.T u,jh.
is. sixteen years ago a few pee
pc ,rpm Iowa come and settled
i . ;,il; n"ar jennings. Attracted
b. li:.: heal:hfulneSs of the eli
mat. aiid free HON eSteadS on a
prairie similar to Illinois.
Ten Years later these lands We're
mostly taken up and We're selling
slowly at 81 to $40 per acre.
The early settlers raised long
horned scrub cattle and Creole
ponies.
The new settler tried fruit,
truck and providence rice, but
late1. tried improved farm ma
cllinery DEMONSTRATING canals and
wells for tlooding) in the rice in
dustry. These lands were found
t. be we'll adapted to growing
rice.
Can,lS, wells and mills com.
biacI to make sure crop, more
profitable than any other cereal
crop. a crop of universal use,
having the whole world for Il mar
ket. u crop involving the compe,
tit!uu as between machine as
against hand labor, and giving
, these prairie lands the advantage
of machine labor as against the
; world.
illinois has grown rich by the
same class Of people growing
, corn.
why will not the same people
, grow rich growing rice; q crop oil
: wider market, moro useful anc
! more ltroIitabIe2
} | note few illustrations OF
: yields OF corn per acre; Richard
Edwards 20 acres, $500 bushels
at 6Oc per bushel. Clover sceC
Y S l.. per acre.
u course the average yielc
!. uuu price would bGts better guide
: 10 value with the average cost
Il \ sack of rice is four bushels
IN average crop ten sacks, equals
forty bushels. An average price
for eighteen years, seventy tive
cents Ter bushel, or thrc e dollar:
per sack for good rice The aV
eraoe cost of growing is one dol
lar Del. sack. The lowest yield i,
d bushels 90, the average forty, tn
highest one hundred thirty live
c Corn costs about the same t
y grow per acre, but the aVerag
- price ut point of production TO
oirnte..n years past does not eI