The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-10-22
Bumper Crop Of Corn and Cane;
Only 254,6l8 Bales Of Cotton

report of the Department of Agricui-
ture and immigration places the cot
ton crop of the state for 1910 at 254,-
618 bales.
The corn crop is a bumper one. 5s
parishes reporting . crop of 11S 40
per cent in comparison with last year.
The sugar crop is also good. Fifty
parishes report a crop of 81 7-1OO per
cent, IA parishes with rs per cent,
and ST. John and Avoyeliess with 40
per cent, In comparison with the 1909
crop. -
Rice is reported in 80 parishes at
98 2-3 per cent Acadia places It's
crop at rs per cent, and Caicasieu at
100 per cent.
The other crops make a good snow
ing. and ON the whole the report IS
a favorable one.
Knowing that many of its details
are but calculations, still every exer-
ton 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 De
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 ~
of them, and ranging from 10 per cent
in st. Helena and West Feliciana to
900 per cent in Catahoula, IS placed
at 81 10-11 per cent of last year
crop, and basing calculation upon
the number of bales as reported III
our annual statement of last Decem
Der, we figure the present crop carter
adding the same number of bales
made last year by parishes not now
reporting) to be 234,6lS bales. Io
make assurance doubly sure, the
assessors were asked to give the
number of bales claimed by conser
vative men as the crop that theli
parishes would make, and this re
suited latter adding thereto ias'
years crop of those not reporting)
in 1866 bales.
Sugar Cane-Fifty parishes report
97-1O per cent, IA sugar parishes
with IS per cent reported by st. John
and 120 by Avoyelles, make the croI
| 80 s-14 of last year, while in the IL
without Avoyelles and no report from
Iberville, the percentage is placed a.
98 lis.
Rice is reported by 80 parishes al
98 %, Acadia being placed at 75 ant
Galcasieu ait 100. Fifty parishes re
port cow peas and sweet potatoes a
95 4-5 and 81 3-4, respectively. Ha.
is reported at 103 125 by 81 parishes
Two, Calcasieu and st. James
place tobacco at 110.
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 grape:
range from 80 to 102 3-11.
Nine parishes report oranges ane
place the crop at 106 1-9, Plaquemlnt
being placed at 80, while Calcasie.
claims $50 per cent.
Clover and grasses are reported p'
35 parishes at 103 81.
Twenty-Five report season durins
September favorable, IL say it was
not. while 10 say it was too dry,
and four "too wet" Twenty
claim that the unfavorable weather
cut the cotton crop short by abou
| 90 $40 per cent, II say the corn was
injured 20 per cent, II claim 20 81
per cent injury to cane. and eign
sav that rice suffered II IL per cent
Thirty-four parishes report no dis
eases among stock. Eleven repor
.'charbon.' one sleepy staggers,
one sore feet and one hog cholera
Forty-seven parishes report the la
Dor supply and efficiency at SO IL.
Twenty-Five claim the truck ha'
been profitable, while IA say it wa:
not. Beans. potatoes, cabbage. to
| matoes and strawberries seem Il
have been the favorites.