Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-24

Lrt. LOVE Il
make a farmer land poor, the common description
Of the farmer whose large area OF ianos leu nn'
to the poor culture Of the whole, rather t0ah "
to the intensiyerulture of a limited area
THE LOWER COAST GAZETTE has frequently
adyerted to the wonderful results accomplished III
some sections of this parish by intense culture anu
by the intense culture requisite Tor car
rving on the truck gardening business. Our par
ish presents the extremes Of culture under 1ndl-
vidual control, from plantations cult1Va1hg a
Thousand or more acres Of land with the hlreo
labor under the control of the chief, down, so Tar
as area is concerned, to the fields OF ~ or 10
acres, under the personal control OF the lrucA
gardeners, wherefrom net profits OF several nun
dred dollars per acre have been gained TO our
knowledge in a single season in the second ward
France, owing to the conservatism OF It's agr1col-
tural people and it's laws Of succession as appllea
to real estate, has had it's lands divided up INTO
small areas and this has led to very excellent OF
intense culture, with the result that when blsmarK
demanded a thousand millions Of dollars from
France as an indemnity to Germany for the cost
of the war between France and Germany IN lolV'
the bonds issued by the French government to Sc
cure funds with to pay this demand, were at once
taken up by the small farmers OF France thus
demonstrating themselves to be the richest 1arnl-
ing community in the world, with large resources
always at hand for any proper purpose.
Of course intensive farming in France becomes
. a speciality in the way of fruit and other SINAI
cultures, much like that of California, where a ter
acre prune farm, Or a five acre orange orchard Il
even now regarded as quite a considerable farm
, The great,farms of Western Canada have come
as a surprise during the last twenty years, since
. the advent of many railroads into that portion O
t Canada east of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
+ where the soil has been found wonderfully wei
: adapted to wheat and the level character OF tn
g lands has permitted cultures with a very hmte'
" amount of human labor. We believe that we her
n in Louisiana, and particularly in our own parish
should adopt the French, Or California, plan OF IN
g tense culture, with smaller farms. And we be
lieve that the results would be found satisfactor
n to the whole community in the way OF increase
& wealth and of the comforts that wealth brings.
Inc Doll WeeVl tlldI Has pdldlyAou 'HS wv
a. planters of North Louisiana and of Arkansas
leading them into immense ventures in rice Gu
c. ture, to which many of the cotton plantations al
u we'll adapted, so far as soil topography are COZ
s. cerned. 1t is stated that there will be 2,W
acres of rice grown in Arkansas this year and tn
some four or five rice mills are under const1uct'(
lg in that state. We know that there are actl'
pc efforts making in North Louisiana to develop II
al culture of rice in a large way there. Under
10 the circumstances and the suddenness with viii
to the boil weevil has attacked the cotton crops
to may be a wise thing for these planters to Henga
in rice culture, but in the end they will be bett
off and the whole country will be better of if the
or people under their control, or smaller farme
IN to whom they might sell or lease their lan'
-. would go into general farming, such as is adapt
10 to the localities, and 60 into it in a small way, (
,+ with more care and thorough work than usual,
- other words, adopt intense culture.
q We feel confident that in our own parl
mr. favorably located as we are, with facilities for
NV production of the staple crops, cane, corn andr
and for the production of many leading sta
a]f items of garden truck, intense culture will
18th only pay well, but it has now become imperat
if success is to be attained.
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