The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-05-22
Development Of Truck Farm
Ing.

Announcement is made that during
the past week some $4,000 bags OF
notatoes and Onions have been har.
lied through the New Orleans mar
kets and sold at profitable prices. In
addition to this many of the truck
farmers living along the lines of the
railroads and navigatable streams
have shipped the products OF their
market gardens directly to the East
ern and Northern markets.
So far, the trucking region OF LOUIS
lana is on the lower coast OF the Miss
issippi, in the Lafourche section be-
tween Raceland and hockport and
along the Iiue Of The Illinois Central
railroad in Tangipahoa parish. Ham
mond, Amite City and other towns
along that line in Louisiana, and
Crystal Springs in Mississippi, have
become famous throughout the coau-
try for their produ Give aud profitable
trucking Industries. Recently, and
as result of the menace of the boil
weeyil, many farmers in the cotton
belt Of the State have become inser
ested in the cultivation of truck farm,
and the outlook is that the present
wear will witness the cultivation IN
Louisiana of wider variety Of crops
than ever before.
Gentlemen coming from the great
sll-cotton sections in the TeDsas lie
wee District and the Fifth Levee Dis
trict of the State bring the news that
the acreage planted in corn this season
is phenomenal, and that interested in
stock raising has been greatly ang
mented since the Advent of the boz!
weevll there last year. In Northwest
Louisiana, among the bull farmers
all over the State, and in the rich cot
ton districts of Central Louisiana the
same movement is noted, hence it is
plain that whether the season for cot
ton in this State shall be favorable OF
unfayorable the SIZE Of the cotton
crop will be materially decreased.
Truck farming is rapidly coming
10 the front as one Of the great indus
tries, of the State. The ailuvla sec
lions on tie lower coast, III the La
fourche valley and in the swamp>
that are being reclai.nel and put into
cultivation are peculiarly adapted to
the production IF early vegetables,
the truck-growers being able to place
on the markets Of Chicago and other
Northern cities potatoes, lettuce, corr,
peas and other vegetables several I
weeks in advance of those in other
sections of the country. When 1t is
remembered that it is the early vege-
table that ommands the fancy figures;
that fortunes may be made of early
while the same vegetable
placed on the same market month";
later may often scarcely pay the cost
81 transportation, the intrinsic value
u the inexhaustIb!y fertile lands Of
sou'hern and Southeast Louisiana can
10 appreciated.
1t is entirely probable that within
DO next decade the truck farmer will
eriousily dispute with the sugar
ianter for supremacy 10 Southern
oaislana; while the pro .ucer of po-
toes, onions, f,u.ts, hay and live
ock in Central and North Louisiana
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