St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-01-28
LOUISIANA CROP RE-
PORT SHOWS UP GRAND
s.. landry Given Fifty Thousand Acres In Cane,
But Ne Report Of Sugar and syrup Made
A RECORD CORN CROP
Rsaaut q Growing Industry, And DIVsrSIgsd
Farming Is HeisG Everywhere -COBdI.
tIOns Ara PFOmIsIRg


Louisiana made good crops thu
past two years-not only has thu
yield been generally good, bu'
the diversity of agricultural pro
ducts shows a healthy inclination
to better times.
st. Landry is reported with 81
thousand acres of sugar cane, but
with no syrup or sugar. This is
clearly a mistake as to the latter,
as several small mills, and the
larger Mary mill at Washington,
produced considerable syrup. In
fact as a general rule the grocers
Of this parish buy and sell only
home made syrup.
The Bureaus figures on some
OF the principal crops do not tally
with those of the government,
and it is the earnest desire of
of the department to have any
man who is posted on his parish
statistics to communicate with
the department and enable it to
make such Investigation as will
show who is right when discre-
pancies appear.
The department adopted the
method of asking plain questions,
How many acres did your parish
have in corn?" "How many
bushels were nader" etc. By
such method it is believed better
results were. secured.
Cotton-The crop is put at
236, 805 bales, on an acreage of
lila, $50.
Corn-This crop is the largest
ever produced in the State.
Three million more bushels were
made than last year, the crop
being SO, 1888, 811 bushels.
Sugar-52 parishes report cane
crops, but only q report any
sugar made. st. Landry reports
SO, GOO acres in cane. but no sugar.
or syrup made. The q parishes
making sugar claim a crop of
$50, 913, 7O8 pounds. Nineteen
claim 400, 767 barrels Of molasses,
while Al claim 81, PIT barrels of
syrup.
Rice-This industry has been
spreading all over the state, So
planting it. Red river
reports 1,50O acres, Grant 100
and St. Landry so, 600 acres, but
they give no results, and exclud-
ing that acreage we have a crop
ranging from IS, 900 pounds in
East Feliciana to 154, 900, 600
pounds in Calcasieu, aggregating
or three parishes SOC, 004, 800
pounds of rough rice.
Peanuts This crop is becoming
luite popular and is an important
in making Investigation a
blessing to the state. Twenty
report an acreage of q,
|87 and a crop of 423, 1875 bushels. ]
Potatoes parishes
'eport an acreage in sweet pota-
,atoes of So, 04O, with a yield of
1853, OBS bushels. Thirty-three
.eport an Irish potato acreage of
Is, 7O9, with a yield of 1,179, $50
bushels. !
Hay-Thirty-four parishes re-
,ort 139, 158 acres, while rs claim
81, 125 tons made, but many
# them report much of their
acreage for home use only and
10 account of the tonnage is
!.
Oats-Reports from 26 parish
IS show an acreage of AZ, 511,
With a crop from 10 of these of
~, 352 bushels.
Oranges-Six parishes report
AT acres, with a crop ranging ]
rom 80 boxes in Jefferson to {
900 in Plaquemine parish, J
while st. Helena claims a few
rees that have made three bar
els to the tree, the crop being !
81, $50 boxes. {
Tobacco-St. James and ST. .
1854 and 200 acres, re- I
ipectiyely, making 200, 600 and !
70. 900 or a total of 30, 900 {
pounds. I
Vegetables twenty-five par {
report 138, 494 acres in veg |
tables and strawberries.
Milk Thirteen parishes report
he daily sale of $3.50 gallons of t
milk. {