The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-04-20
The KINGD0N Of corn.
Louisiana Destined TO Lead the.
World in Yield, Quality and
cheapness Of Professionalism
Soil and Ideal Climate Assures
TWO Crops a Year.

'i efia taSat Ultimate Assure
Two Crops Year.
The wonderful advantages and no
sibilities of Louisiana as q corn-nrt
ducing state are thus #extolled bv +
! Nc. Cottrell, agricultural commissio,
er of the Rock Island lines:
For many generations the rich boz
tom lands Of Louisiana were plante
year after year to cotton, the miami
ers shipping in from the north eve,
| the corn, grain and hay needed fo
their teams. Occasionally a thil
poor spot was planted to corn witt
any seed that came handy. TIL,
/ corn was cultivated once or tWic,
| and then all the teams and me1
We're kept at work in the cotton, tht
corn fields growing up to grass ant
weeds. The corn yielded 10 to q
bushels an acre and the planters
were convinced that the climate de
barred profitable corn raising.
The boil WeeVil came and year af
ter year either destroyed the cotton
entirely, or cut down the WELD be.
low cost of production Most of the
planters kept on planting cotton ex-
cluslVely until the repeated failures
from boil Weevil brought them to the
verge Of bankruptcy. Then some Of
them planted corn on their rich lands
and gave it fair cultivation. The
corn yielded in large fields 40, so,
10 and even 70 and upward bushels
an acre. This with common seed.
Corn became money maker.
The boys Of Louisiana were organ
lied inlo corn clubs and grew corn
from well bred seed. In 1910 over
5000 of these boys averaged 81 bush
els an acre. 80 boys averaged 100.
bushels and more an acre and one
boy grew 1888 bushels on an acre.
The boys showed what pure bred
seed will do for corn on the rich land
and under the ideal corn climate of
Louisiana.
The old fashioned corn of Louisi-=
ana is soft and is badly damaged in
the crib by the grain Weevil, this
pest often making it unfit for feed.
Recently a semi-fliIlt corn has been
introduced that Isl pure bred. Yields
more than the soft corn, and is near
IL WeeFil proof. 9ssais hard corn has
onI Ell esrt s5 ap ois
y fag 81 ti1rfe and IS SO {ff s7i1en picked
that it is ready fos immediate
port to European markets. LIVERPOOL
BUYERS prefer it to all other kinds OF
corn they receive. Alvin Il. stelnel,
editor of the Southwest Trail, says
7f the recent discovery that Louisi-
Ina IS one Of the greatest corn I
states: Neither the diamond mines
If South Africa nor Alaska's gold |
.lelds afford tale of riches SO ro-
mantle as the discovery of Louisi-
mas productiveness in the yield of
,orn. All the wealth Of a years /
production Of gold in the United
states is OF but twice the value OF
he 1910 Louisiana corn crop.
ssThe figure is $4,000, 900. The in
rease in three years is 10 per cent,
nd corn is today the leading crop
t the state. having wrested the
roWn from King Cotton after an un-
roken reign of more than a cen
ury.
First place in. working this change
elongs to the busy little boil Weeyil.
ne pest of the cotton crop, because
ad he remained out of the field.
lere would have been little pressing
eeessity for a resort to better agri-
lltural methods. That may be stated
little stronger: Had the boil wee
4 refrained from becoming perniei- j
1sly active, it would have taken
uch longer for the planters to real j
e the importance of diversified
srining. So, after all, the boil wee !
/ becomes a blessing in disguise, no
after how unWelcome. It will bel
eWs to northern farmers when they /
ear tnat the Louisiana corn crop,
cured at so cents per bushel, shows
| increase in money value in three
4ars of over s1S,000,000. That OF {
10 was 58,835.000 bushels, or more
an double the crop Of 1907, which
as 2S,o00,000 bushels. An analysis E
7 these figures indicates the rapid
7 with which Louisiana is being
along modern lines of ag- G
culture, for most of this corn is
ed at home.
NnaE a cnange from a period SO
cent as six years ago, when two r
irds Of the cotton crop was spent
r corn, oats, timothy, hay and pork r
oducts r
Louisiana has just found her best
op-eorns the crop in which she
II lead the world In yield, quality n
d cheapness of production and in i
lightful living conditions for the
RI grower 1T is probable that in
e Years Louisiana win be one of
) chief corn exporting states, sup
ing European markets with her
rplus.
Richness of the Soil. N
The soil of these bottom lands has t
en- coming down the rivers for
as and is the cream Of the soils q
IA the northern corn belt. The r
ound looks like that under an old
yer stack in the north and anal "a
IS have shown it to be so rich in
mus that it contains sufficient nj
gen for one thousand 50-busheI
ps Of corn. 81
The Market fer Louisiana Corn.
slexandfia is only 1S4 miles from dc
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