The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-03-10
To Make Our Old Field. Blossom.

wi OAU EtCl0S BLOSSOM.
Mr.. M. S. Bolinger of Bolinger, a stock
nolder IN the recently organized Bossier
Fruit and Stock Company, domiciled in
ehat place, has written us as follows in
answer to query as to the present work
and future plans of the company:
Referring to the Bossier Fruit and
Stock Company: will say:
we are converting couple of small
farms, here near the railroad, into Or
cnards. Have prepared the soil and
planted about II, 200 peach trees, mostly
Aloertas, and 1000 pecan trees of best
varieties. Besides this, we have out few
hundred hg trees, grapes and a small
amount OF other varieties of fruits. After
TINS Is started off, We will add to it, as we'll
as raise truck Of various kinds We will
plant ten acres to potatoes this year.
we DO not expect to do any big things.
we want to demonstrate that fruit can be
grown successfully and profitably. In
connection We will raise stock, more par
ticularly horses and mules.
In this connection, will state that we
are fencing about 500 acres south of Col
hnsourg for hay. Last year we put up
aoout 100 tons and expect to double that
this season. We find the native grass as
good for our stock as that shipped in from
Arkansas or Texas. There is no question
about our hay grown here being all right
for feed. In the hill portion of the parish
there is no need of any one buying hay
1t IS easy and cheap to put up.''
We do not agree with Mr.. Bolinger in
his saying eve do not expect to do any
big things.''
IF hie ooppopx, o,n oonro,4 so. L:u 81.
into profitable orchards, and at the same
time grow crop on them, can find profit
IN pasturing our old field and later cutting
the grass for winter use, can raise horses,
mules and other stock at profit, they are
''doing big things.'
Not that this has never before been at
tempted in our parish. 1t has, and sue
cessfully. But no one has as yet under
taken the several things at once and on
such large scale.
There are in our parish many pretty and
profitable orchards. Money has been made
out of Irish potatoes and.other truck crops.
Hogs have been raised and shipped, or
bought and shipped, giving both the
farmer and the middle-man good margin
OF profit. The same can be said of cattle.
No one has devoted but share of his at
teutlOH w IOfSeS dHu HIuloS, Out many
have been sold at a profit that made the
raising Of them more than worth the while.
More attention is being given to stock as
the years pass. This is, Of course, in some
degree due to the stimulating effect of our
annual Parish Fairs; but more particu-
larly to the fact that we have learned that
there is market and a profit
Now comes the Bossier Fruit and Stock
Company to demonstrate that these sew
eral industries work hand in hand and can
be successfully and proftably undertaken
on a few hundred acres of hill soil. We
trust that they will meet with success in
their every effort. The resources of our
farms are multifold. They are known to
many who have all their lives lived COM
fortably and with profit on them, but the
diversity of the products of these farms
has not in all cases been as great as it
should have been. Not by great deal.
| We don't need any one to tell US how.
We want the thing actually demonstrated
in our midst. So, again, here's wishing
the new company long life and unbounded
success in their several enterprises.