The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-12-23
GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN. :
"Go to Louisiana, the New Kingdom
Of Corn" Says H. M. cottrelI,
Agricultural Commissioner Of the
Rock Island Lines.

The Chief is in receipt of a copy OF
the handsomely illustrated and finely
printed circular issued by the Rock Is
land Lines, "The New Kingdom of
| Corn-Louisiana," wherein the Won
derful advantages Of Louisiana as a
corn state are shown, and the agri-
cultural possibilities of the state in
general effectively exploited,
One of the many excellent articles
in the pamphlet is the following
symposium of Louisiana's charms re,
sources and advantages from the fa-
ci1e pen of H. M. Cottrell, the wide
awake agricultural commissionre Of
the Rock Island Lines, than whom
| the pelican state has no firmer friend
or more enthusiastic advocate:
Louisiana is a good land in which
/ to make a home and one Of the best
countries in which to make money
farming.
! Louisiana has not thousands but
millions of fertile acres that, well
farmed, will yield Is to 100 bushels Of
4 corn an acre.
growing season and the always am
pie supply Of moisture produce
thoroughly matured corn that Is dry
enough to ship as soon as gathered.
THE nearness to the seab card raises
tie tae TO Eerl sgnfs 81
q bushel above tnat received III the
Il northern corn belt.
Louisiana has never had a failure
j. from drought. The growing season is
so long, the bottom lands SO rich
and the rainfall so bountifu1 that two
i paying crops can be grown every sea-
son-one Of them a crop OF corn.
Peaches, pears, berries, grapes and
melons yield well in Louisiana. The
gardens produce vegetables nine to.
=. twelve months every year and It 1s
one of the best states in which TO
grow pecans and other nuts. Straw
!, berries from March to September.
Hogs will return $50 an acre a year
on the cheapest upland in Louisiana
and gather the crops themselves.
Dairy cows can be pastured at least
eleven months in the year. Alfalfa
Yields six cuttings a season and the
yield OF ensilage corn Is large. New
. Orleans lis obliged to buy six million
Z dollars worth OF butter a year from
! other states.
! ! "Roses bloom in February i'm LOU
4 isAana and the Gulf hreezes make It
= cooler in midsummer than ON the
!. northern border of the northern corn
: belt. Your wife and children can
= i stay out OF doors hours every day IN
= the year. You can sleep with the
. windows and doors open wide every
winter night and enjoy q seat al
= most every winter evening on You
I'll front porch. This means health afit
- comfort.
:. tsLouisiana is the second creates
~ state in lumber production and build
=, ~ ings can be erected for half OF VIVA
- - they would cost in the northern corr
= belt.
.sThere is great fishing in Loui5ian
gu both In fresh and sat waters. Bear
ls deer and wild turkey, and ducks an
,, other game birds are plentiful in tn
~ ~ wild lands. Hunting after the crop
:, are harvested is great sport.
m le "The people of Louisiana viii gly
~ ns You a cordial welcome They nee
llu ,i and want million energetic expel
~ northern corn and live stock grower
They are well bred, hospitable, gel
~ erous and neighborly people 70
- W. like thems they will like YOU
" ~ go south, young man; go to Lo
- isiana."