Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-05-14
FIRST QUARTERLY CROP REPORT
ISSUED BY THE BOARD OF
AGRICULTURE.
Cotton Acreage Shows Material Re-
ductiOn, While Corn is In
creased.

Baton Rouge, La, May {, 1917.
The Louisiana State Board of Agri-
culture and Immigration to-day issued
its first quarterly crop report, showing
the crop conditions throughout the State
of Louisiana, and according To this re-
port the cotton acreage shows decided
reduction in comparison to last year.
In fifty parishes the cotton acreage is
placed at - IS per cent in comparison
with the 1908 crop. The stand and con-
dition by thirty-six parishes is placed at
81 2-9 per cent Of last year, and the fer
tilizer used is - per cent of last year.
The corn acreage shows decided in
crease. The acp,rge.is put,down at ia
per cent; stand and condition 80 1-2 per
cent; fertilizer used so 7-S per cent.
The rice acreage in eighteen parishes
shows an increase and in comparison
with last year is placed at 1913 per cent,
while in three parishes in which rice has
never been planted before 8, $50 acres have
been planted. The stand and condition
in these parishes is put down at % % per
cent.
There are twenty-nine parishes that
report total of 10 per cent increase in
the acreage of sugar cane fall planting
The total per cent in the acreage is
given at Tic. SO per cent. The condition
Of the fall plant is los - per cent. The
spring plant in forty parishes is placed at
ia IA per cent and spring conditions at
100 l-2 per cent. The, first year stubble
condition isg7 1-2 per cent, and second
year stubble is 81 2-3 per cent.
In the sorgham crop twenty-five par
lshes report an increase OF Is l0-lT
per cent over last year.
Irish Potatoes-Twenty-five parishes
claim III ll-29 per cent. Thirty-five
parishes place the sweet potato crop at
l32 l-2 per cent.
Oats-Twenty-seven parishes .claim a
crop of l26 l-2 per cent, compared to
last year.
The fruit crop shows a falling off.
Alfalfa, lespedeza, bermuda, pea vine,
wire and carpet grass are the principal
grasses in the state and are doing well.
There has been an increase of 43 per
cent in the thirty-nine parishes i'm the
vegetable garden acreage.
The labor supply is satisfactory: forty
three parishes report the supply at l03
lilo per cent.
st. Helena parish reports labor scarce.
Illc llNc StoCk II III SOOu cOnUltlOn In
all of the parishes. The following is the
report by parishes as given cut by the
Department of Agriculture and Immi-
grafton:
Tensas-Report is made from personal
visit all over the parish within the last
thirty days, and have tried to be con-
servative, and think it is a. near conserv-
atism as is possible to get it. Cotton
stand and conditions late owingT to cold
dry weather Twenty-Five hundred acres
planted in rice ;cpOne last= year. Season
for cotton backward owing to time and
care devoted 10 corn land, followed by a
drouth. The. corn season has been ideal
except for low temperature, but which
has not been sufficient to impair stands.
Contrary to usual custom, there, have
been no new mules purchased this season.
Aside from the usual cases of collie there
has been one case of CHAMBERS. The body
of the animal was thoroughly DESTROYED
by fire. We had several cases in the
same section last year.
ConcordiaANo rice last year, 100
acres for 1909. Eight fatal cases of char
bon. This report is based on "a careful
inspection made by the Assessor and his
deputy during a recent trip through the
parish.