The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-01-09


able the grower to follow with the
ordinary field crops. They very often
make more than where cultivated
alone, due to the fact of early and
thorough preparation of the soil in
getting in the vegetable crops before.
Another profitable line of agricul-
ture, and one in which there is no
immediate danger of OVERRIDING Is
dairying. A scientific application OF
this business has been the means OF
making certain sections of our coun-
| try, once poverty stricken, the most
prosperous and progressive to be
found. They have built up their soils
to richness almost as great as the
finest alluvial lands. Success is doub-
ly sure in this business if all the
roughage and large part of the con-
centrated foods are grown on the farm
where consumed. With our long graz
Ing season, and the numerous green
crops that can be grown during the
winter, there is no reason why we
have not got the ideal dairy country
of the world. With milk at 40 cents
gallon and good butter from 25 to
35 cents per pound all over our coun-
try, we see no reason why any one
with application and a natural ten
dency in this direction could not find
1t profitable
Stock Raising.
Horse and mule farming Is very
profitable to all who have given 1t q
trial 1t is a useless, and a crying
shame to see the thousands and thou
sands of dollars going out of the cot
ton states each year for horses and
mules, which we could grow more
cheaply, and of a much more durable
quality than any we buy.
We know both horses and mules
raised in this community with the very
minimum amount of attention, are
mere hardy, fully as large. and much
better adapted to our uses than stock
from other sections. When we can
raise a colt that Is worth. and can be
sold, for from SIS to $3.50 at three
years old at total cost not counting
pasturage of SIS, it strikes us more
like money making proposition than
a 10 () month cotton crop.
We have found oat growing for feed
and seed very profitable-always fol-
lowing with lespedeza or peas for hay.
This gives two money crops on same
land each year with the least expen-
diture of labor of anything we have
ever grown. 1t protects the land from
washing rains, furnishes it with plenty
1 vegetable matter, and in every re-
spect surpasses cotton farming both
as to profit and pleasure. We get
from 65 cents to 81 for oats, and $3.50
to $18 per ton for hay and have never
been able to supply the local demand
for a good quality of either. Hogs In
connection with the oat and hay bust
ness, are quite remunerative. We
have nearly 100 acres fenced hog
proof, and turn the hogs on the oats
from the time they are large enough
to Craze until the oats begin to head.
They only Craze in spots and the pork
you make and the weeds you lose
make up for all loss in oats. When
the oats begin heading take the hogs
on and turn on again after harvesting
and let them clean up the scattered
grain and continue the weed eating
until you SOW peas; If in lespedeza, let
them run all season. Hogs grown
this way and fattened with corn, peas,
potatoes, ETC., and sold for IL cents
and cents on foot. look good and
feel better to one who has been
bumped by the cotton proposition as
we.
Sugar Cane "a a Money-Maker.
No crcp will surpass pure sugar
cane for a money maker on any of our
southern soils where it will grow sue
cessfully. Any old field will make
from $50 to 500 gallons of syrup per
acre with liberal supply of fertilizer
(not less than onehalf tone per acre). |
The cultivation of the crop is no
more difficult than corn, and the
heavy work of taking on the crop
comes at time when you can COM
mand the best labor to be had, and
it lasts but short while.
The possibilities for the south in this
industry are practically unlimited. A
little more energetic pushing of syrup
on the markets would create q de-
mand thai the whole available cane
producing lands could not supply.
When people Coce eat pure sugar |
cane nothing else will fill its place.
The most satisfactory mode of hand |
ling is In one quart. one-half gallon |
and one gallon tin cans, sealed while |
hot, from the pans. Put up in this
shape it will sell at wholesale at from
40 to so cents per gallon, I. o. b.
We hope that out of the number of
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