The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-06-19
TO EXPORT CORN
FOR FIRST TIME
THE COTTON GROWING PARISHES OF LOUISE
ANA FIND NEW CROP SUCCESSFUL
Freight the Railroads Encouraging
the Planters Of Red River Valley to Make
Change in their Products.

The proba bilities are that Louisi
ana will this season take rank for the
first time in it's history AS "A grain ex
porting State.
Information received by the Grain
Committee of the Board OF Trade o
New Orleans is that there is a larry.
corn crop now being raised along the
Red river in what has come to bt
known as the boil weevil section, and
it is believed by New Orleans grain
men that the production will be i'm
portant enough to permit OF consid.
cradle expectation.
In the past Louisiana has not only
never exported any corn, but it has
never raised enough for it's own use.
Ii the prevailing conditions Indicate
anything, they indicate, according to
grain men here, that this condition
will no longer exist, and that. seven
though tie State shall c, n inue
to purchase corn from other sections,
there will be at least II portion Of its
own crop available for export.
"From the best Information obtain
able, we understand that the acre
age conditions regarding corn and
cotton have this year been reversed, T"
said Chairman A. +. Leonhardt, Of
the Board of Trades Grain Commit
tee.
where planters were formerly
raising 100 acres of corn and 500
acres of cotton, they are now raising
500 acres of corn and 100 acres Of
cotton. Persons who have come
through the Red River Valley recent
" say that they imagined they were
travelling through the corn-growing
section of Illinois.
SAMPLE CORN TESTED.
1T Was shown by scientific expert
ments last fall that the Louisiana
corn is OF exceptionally good quality
and well adapted for export. Sam
pies were tested here and they show
ed up very satisfactorily. So far us
the quality Of the grain is concern
ed there is little to he desired.
Zone of the most important mat
ters which came up WIS the question
of rates. The Texas Railroad Com
mission has a maximum rate of 12h
cents in effect in Texas, and the Board
of Trade was anxious that the maxi
mum should be esta blised in Louisi-
aua in order that all the corn raised
in this State should come through
New Orleans. These rates have just
been announced, and it is likely that
the first Louisiana export corn will
begin to move the latter part Of Sep
TENDER or the LIST of October"
The freight and transportation de-
partment of the exchange had up
with the Texas & Pacific and the
Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Company the establishment of rates
ON corn from points on their lines to
New Orleans, both for local consump-
ton and for export.
CHANGE IN FREIGHT RATES.
The department has received ad-
vice from General Freight Agent
Marshall, of the Louisiana Railway
and Navigation Company. that his
line will establish rates into New Or
lenns on a basis not to exceed rate
of 12h cents for distances over 165
miles. This will be in the eastern
part of Rapides and in the parish oil
Avoyells, where the the rates will
ade down to 10 cents.
The matter WAS taken up by the
freight department on request oi the
Grain CuInuitte of the Board uI
Trade, the members of which have
for some time been in correspondence
with the grain producers OF the Stat
The Grain Committee from data II
hus gathered, had information that
there will he an enormous production
of corn in some of the large cotton
producing parishes which suffered last
year from the boil weevil. These ure;
Avoyelles, Rapides, Catahoula. Grant
Natchitoches, Red River and Bossier
1t is estimated that there will b.
about five million bushels Of corn