New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-04-04
CANNING FACTORIES.

w Ittbibu itt ROM tllt AItAdll-
dria Town Talk the subjoined ar
ticle for the benefit ofour readers,
which shows the benefits to be
derived by truck farmers from
these factories:
In order to give information
to the general public as to the
objects aud purposes of the Alex
andria Canning Company, and
and to familiariZe them with the
prices and possibilities in raising
the various commodities that this
Company proposes to purchase
we take this method of circulat
ing this information. You will APP
preciate that no class Of agricul-
turiStS have ever succeeded in
lettering their condition. or who
have made money, that were
solely dependant upon one crop
for their success.
This cannot be better demon
strated than by sighting the con
dition of the farmers in Park
County. Mich, as stated by Prof.
Clinton Smith in his address to
the citizens of Alexandria on
March 9th. Prior to the estab-
lishment of canning factories and
creameries in that section, the
mortgaged indebtedness Of the
farmers was go per cent. of the
total assessed valuation, and after
their establishment the mort
gagged Indebtedness was reduced
to per cent: you will observe,
therefore. that no class of farmers
can ever hope to better condition,
unless they show willingness
to diversity their crops and event
ually begin to operate on cash
basis. In your present condi !
ton your money crop comes IN
at one time, and you therefore
find it necessary to seek some
liberal creditor who will supply |
You and your families with bread
and clothing until you get a little |
money.
Aside from this fact, every /
farmer, producing one crop, and
that crop having to be harvested
at the same time. is such a drain
upon farm labor they have the
greatest difficulty in harvesting
season in saving their crops. The
canning factory has been estab /
lished in your midst in order that
you may be able to get relief, by
you to raise a diversity
of crops and eventually rebound |
to Your prosperity.
We have established the pres
ent scale of prices and wish to
contract for about two hundred
acres. all told, of the following
commodities:
LIST. Tomatoes at u cents per
You can raise from 200
to 500 bushels per acre, which
will give you from $1,000 to
S125.0O per acre. You will be
gin harvesting this crop if you
plant about April 1st) about June
25th.
2nd. Yellow Wax Bush Bean,
at 30 cents per bushel. You can
raise from 300 to 400 bushels per
acre, giving you from $4,000 to
$4,000 gross crop.
Bird Okra, at 40 cents per
no information as to how
much can be produced per acre.
4th. Pumpkins, at 30 cents per
hundred pounds. You can raise
ten tons per acre, gross crop
600 per acre.
9Th. Yellow Yam Sweet Pota-
toes, 30 cents per busel. You
can raise from 200 to 400 bushels
per acre, gross crop from $4,000
to $4,000 per acre.
9th. Blabkberries and dew
berries, 81 90 per bushel.
18th. Canning pears, so cents
per bushel.
9Th. Peaches, prices not yet
obtained.
Having given you, as far as it
is possible, this informa tion
which we have secured as the
results in other communities,
and upon the very best authority,
We desire to emphasize that these
results can be obtained, and it is
only left to the activity and thor
,ughness of the farmer himself
20 demonstrate what profit he
will obtain. We do not desire T,
Tor encourage any one farmer to
20 exclusively into truck farming
out wishevery farmer and planter
20 put in from one to two acres. {
hat this canning factory may
lave a supply. t
Do not say that these results y
AN not be obtained, because you
lave never been in the business t
nd are therefore not authority i
or others to be governed by. t
liant these crops, measure your
and, keep an accurate account of p
What they cost you, an accurate '
ccount of your returns and then D
on can talk. o
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