The Donaldsonville chief., 1912-01-06
DoNALDsoNvILLE LA. SATURDAY, JAN 6 1912
PROFITABLE FARMING,


Yield High Net Returns-L ivine
Conditions Delightful the Yeai
Round, and Rich Land Easil,
h Obtained.
For seven years the Louisiana ag
ricultural college has been RAISING
and fattening hogs on cheap sscut
/! over lands, letting the hogs har.
vest the crop. In 1910 eighty-five hogs
were fattened, returning $50 an acre
The Arkansas agricultural college
with similar methods, has fattened
hogs at a cost of one and three
fourth cents a pound live weight.
Cows in Louisiana can be pastured
eleven to twelve months year;
corn grows sixteen to eighteen feet
high, giving large yields of silage;
alfalfa on the bottom lands yields
six cuttings a year, and other crops
| in proportion. Spanish peanuts, rich
in both forage and grain, yield large
crops on cheap lands.
| Six million dollars worth of but
| ter was shipped to New Orleans
from northern states, most of it COM
| ing from northern Illinois and Wis
| consin and Kansas Alexandria, a
wealthy town Of $4,000 people, in the
center of Louisiana, ships in twenty
cars of condensed milk a year. The
manufacturers of ice cream pay one
dollar a gallon for sweet cream when
they can get it, but most of the
time are compelled to make their ice
cream from condensed milk, as
neither cream nor milk can usually
be bought. Not II single town in the
state has enough milk, cream or
butter.
Winter conditions in Louisiana are
similar to those in the spring in
the north. Fowls do not need to be
confined a single day in the year on
account of the weather. Green feeds
are plentiful the year round.
The conditions are ideal for egg
production in the fall, winter and
spring. Threefourths of the eggs and
poultry in the state are shipped in,.=
go per cent of it coming from dis
tant states. There is an opportunity
for thousands Of northern poultry
men to so to Louisiana and produce
eggs cheaDly in the winter under
spring conditions ard ship them to
Chicago. st. Louis, Kansas City and
sDenYei, as well Il for the home 6
A. b. Pend1eton, of Alexandria,
raised, in 1911, $50 acres Of sugar
cane that averaged 81 tons per acre.
and sold on track at the shipping
spur on his farm for an average OF
$3.50 ton It cost him $50 to $40
an acre to raise and market the crop,
leaving him a profit of $4,000 There
are. tens of thousands Of acres in
itne bottoms along the Red and Qua
cilita rivres that will raise just as
large Yields of sugar cane, and the
demand is unlimited,
w. C. Harris, Alexandria, sold the
potatoes from 80 acres for $1,000, and
got them off in time to raise corn OF
the land the same season. 1t cost
him $27 an acre to raise and mar
ket the potatoes, giving him proIlt
.bf S4570 before time to plant corn.
John P. Parker, OF Monroe, harvest
ed SO bushels Of winter oats 10 the
acre and the same season, On tne
same ground, raised SIS bushels Ct
peanuts to the acre Ctfat ne oolu ~
ST y bushel, and a ten OF hay PEI
acre from the tops worth S12.
L. 2. Alexander, Of Monroe, raised
465 acres Of tomatoes from which he
shipped an average of 470 crates PEI
aaze rae5 MT retuf,ns after deduefi@a
coatS Of ssowinz, packing and marEetz
ing, averaged IS cents a crate, a nes
profit CT $3343 an acre, or over SID
000 ff.on the crop.
\ northern lahorer bought small
tract near Alexandria and planted
an acre and a half to straWbe1r7 es-
I fter paying all expenses OF grow
ing sad marketing the first crop from
this planting, he put S1206 IN the
bank, earning a good living for III
family from other crops and outside
work.
Whatever kind Of crops, field o.
garden, you like 0 grow; Whatever
slass Of live stock you prefer, you
will find waiting for you in Louisl-
ina cheap land that is rich, low
high net returns from
every line of farming and most de-
ightful living conditions.