Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
Bumper Crop Of Corn and Cane;
Only 254,6l8 Bales of Cotton

Baton Rouge.-The third quarterly
report of the Department of Agricul-
ture and immigration places the cot
ton crop of the state for 1910 at 254,-
61S bales.
The corn crop is a bumper one. %
parishes reporting a crop of l13 A.
per cent i'll comparison with last year
The sugar crop is also good. Fifty
parishes report crop OF "a 7-1OO per
cent, II parishes with 40 Der cent.
and st. John and Avoyelles with 12o
per cent, in comparison with the 1909
crop.
Rice is reported i'm 80 parishes at
SS % per cent. Acadia places its
crop at I5 per cent, and Calcasieu at
100 per cent.
The other crops make a good show
ing. and on the whole the report Is
favorable one.
Knowing that many of its detail;
are but calculations, still every exer-
tion has been made to collect as ac-
curate data as possible, and the de-
partment is pleased with the pains
taking work of most of the assessors
and believes that this report will be
practically upheld in the last and
final one of the year on December
81, when the actual figures will be
given. All the parishes except Cad
do and Iberville have been heard
from.
The cotton crop, as reported by Al
of them, and ranging from 10 per cent
In st. Helena and West Feliciana to
300 per cent in Catahoula, is placed
at 81 10-11 per cent of last years
crop, and basing a calculation upon
the number of bales as reported in
our annual statement of last Decem-
ber. we figure the present crop (after
adding the same number of bales
made last year by parishes not now
reporting) to be 2o4,6lS bales. To
make assurance doubly sure, the
assessors were asked to give the
number of bales claimed by conser-
vative men as the crop that their
parishes would make, and this re-
suited (after adding thereto last
years crop of those not reporting)
I'm 246,696 bales.
Sugar Cane-Fifty parishes report
7-10 per cent, IA sugar parishes,
with IS per cent reported by st. John
and 100 by Avoyelles, make the crop
SO 9-14 of last year, while in the 13,
without Avoyelles and no report from
Iberville, the percentage is placed at
90 lib.
Rice is reported by 80 parishes at
9S %, Acadia being placed at Is and
Calcasieu at 100. Fifty parishes re-
port COW peas and sweet potatoes at
95 As and 81 3-4, respectively. Hay
is reported at 103 1-25 by 81 parishes.
Two, Calcasieu and ST. James,
place tobacco at 10.
Twenty-six claim 103 1-3 for pea
nuts.
The peach crop was fine, % par
ishes placing it at 125 2-5.
Apples, pears, melons and grapes
range from 80 to 102 3-11.
Nine parishes report oranges and
place the crop at 106 1-9, Plaquemine
being placed at 80, while Calcasieu
claims $50 per cent.
Glover and grasses are reported by
S5 parishes at 103 81.
Twenty-Five report season during
September favorable. IL say it was
not, while 10 say it was too dry
and four ''too wet" Twenty-nine
claim that the unfavorable weather
cut the cotton crop short by about
30 $40 per cent, II say the corn was
injured 20 per cent, 81 claim 20 "a
per cent injury to cane. and eight
say that rice suffered II IL per cent.
Thirty-four parishes report no dis
eases among stock. Eleven report
"charbon.' one sleepy staggers,
one sore feet" and one hog cholera.
Forty-seven parishes report the Ia
Dor supply and efficiency at SO IL.
Twenty-Five claim the truck has
been profitable, while IA say it was
not. Beans, potatoes, cabbage, to-