The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-11-09

thrive and cattle, hogs, sneep ana goats
are raised with less expense than proba-
bly, anywhere in the South, owing to the
plentiful pasturage, the pure water and
the favorable seasons.
CUT OVER TIMBER TRACTS.
Kress and Garfield, stations on the Cot
ton Belt Route, are places where the
homeseeker will find desirable farming
land that only wants some one to clear
away the timber and bring the soil into
productiveness. In this section is the
Henry Moore tract Of 10000 acres, which
is available for subdivision into farm sites.
The cost of clearing this land and bring
inc it under the pillow would range from
SIS to S12 an acre, and in the clearing a
good deal of valuable timber for ties,
buildings and fuel would be saved.
In the vicinity of Frostville and Bradley
is a Is, OOO- acre tract of timber land owned
by the Frost-Johnson Company. This is
all fine level land, covered with small tim
Der and subject to easy development. It
offers splendid opportunity for colonial
ton. The fact is that there are about TO-
600 acres of timber lands in this part Of
Arkansas and Louisiana that might be
gotten together for development purposes.
them profitable from an agricultural stand
point. The timber has made their owners
rich, and since it has been taken off the
land has been allowed to lie in idleness. 1t
has not even been stocked with cattle.
The native grass grows tall and luxuriant.
When ones comes to think how much
nearer the markets are these lands, what
great variety of crops could be grown upon
~ .r-.th In off ut
lands south of Lewisville, on the Shreve-
port branch of the Cotton Belt Route,
loom up far moro promising than some Of
the much exploited lands in faraway cor
ners of the earth, where the farmers must
resort to irrigation or trick methods Of
tillage to produce the bare necessities of
life. Truly here is a section which has
been overlooked by the great colonization
workers. soil that will produce any crop
of the temperate zone and climate that
makes farming profitable.
AWAKENING AT BoLINGER.
Where the country seems highest, though
the gentle undulations are hardly pro-
nounced enough to be called hills, there is
Bolinger, the center Of $4,000 acre tract
of timber and grazing land owned by S.
H. Boiinger, native of Illinois and
former kansan. Mr.. Bolinger has already
developed about 1000 acres Of land about
this station and has laid off Bolinger into
town lots, anticipating the growth Of a
city when the land has been brought into
productiveness. Believing that the best
way to attract people to his community
was to make a practical demonstration Of
what could be done with the soil, Mr..
Bolinger planted a 100-acre peach and
pear orchard and set out vineyard of
standard grapes. He also fitted up his
farm with modern improvements and
stocked the place with good cattle, hogs,
mules horses, sheep and goats. He is
raising all of his own feed and has pro-
duced big crops of cowpeas and peanuts.
Strawberries, peaches and tomatoes have
| been tried with success and some fine
celery was raised, on small scale.
| THRIVING PLAIN DEALING.
More signs of agricultural progress are
in evidence at Plain Dealing, thriving
little city in the center of rich farming
country. Here there is both the rolling
red land and the flat sandy soils. The red
lands have lots of iron in the soil, and being
high and rolling they are we'll suited for
fruit. Some nice orchards have already
Oe0ll StdlSu' lit COuultiOuS are .cSp0Cl.
ally good for peaches. Sixteen cars OF
peaches were shipped from this point in
one season. Berries and cantaloupes
have proven profitable crops.
The Plain Dealing section cannot be
beaten for stock raising. Lespedeza grows
wild and Bermuda thrives wherever it is
planted. Cowpeas and peanuts are adapt
ed to the uplands, and small grains dc
we'll. There are many spring branches
and plenty of good water for stock. Plain
Dealing is in need Of a dairy and cheese
factory.
OF course corn and cotton are the prin-
cipal field crops, as they are everywhere
in the South, but w. B. Boggs Of Plair
Dealing says that this land will pro.
duce 100 bushels of Irish potatoes ar
acre and that sweet potatoes will make zoe
bushels. Sugar cane is raised on every
farm and by the farmers is manufactured
into syrup, yielding from SIS to 1925 ar
acre profit.
G. T. Mays Of near Plain Dealing has
his farm we'll stocked with horses, cattle
and hogs, and there is not an animal or
the place that he did not raise. The farm.
ers are improving their breeds. Breeders
associations have been formed and they
have brought in registered sires.
II G. B. Gilmer, who has an office il
; Shreveport and farm near Plain Dealing
says that his last crop was the sixteenth
} he had raised in this section. He say.
that his corn made forty bushels to til,
acre this year and that it has not varied
five bushels in all the sixteen years tina