The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-06-28
BRUNER GIVES DATA
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
GIVES INTERESTING FIGURES
TO HOMESEEkERS
SMALL AREA IN CULTIVATION
Which Only 100000 Are Being
Cultivated.

! New Orleans.-FollOwing is an ad-
! dress in part OF Hon. l.. O. Bruner,
| commissioner OF agriculture and i'm
migration, which he delivered TO a
parry OF homeseekers in New Orleans:
Louisiana has the greatest body OF
| alluvial lands existing anywhere IN
| the world, and only a small portion
is subject TO overflow from the Missis-
! sippi. Nearly all are protected by
leNees maintained by the STATE and
national government.
Louisiana is composed of 2S.00O,O0O
acres OF land and only about 100000
are cultivated, and from this are year
u produced crops valued at nearly
$iOO,OOO,O0o.
Louisiana's climate is admirable,
breezy, cool i'll summer, mild in winter,
healthful at all times, not subject TO
cold in winter.
Louisiana's products are varied and
abundant. Sugar, corn, cotton, rice, TO-
bacco, oats, wheat sorghum, jute.
ramies, grasses, cloves and forage
crops, millet, potatoes, vegetables, or
aGges, lemons, olives, figs and berries
are produced with great profit and
little labor.
Louisianas live stock consists of
horses, cattle, mules, hogs and sheep.
Louislan'as railroads are extensive,
accommodating. convenient aud mod
ern, and traverse over 100000 miles
OF territory.
Louisiana has more navigable riv-
ers than any other state, and a great
er length OF nayigable waterways.
LouisiaD2's rivers, bayous and lakes
are mostly all navigable and many run
north and south through the entire
state. They furnish transportation IA
cilitiss for many communities and ere.
ate competition in rates. They fur
nish water for irrigation, are deep
running streams which abound in fish
and furnish water for stock. Ev.
cry parish except four ca2 he reached
by navigaDle streams at some period
during the year.
Louisiana produces % per cent of
the cane sugar raised in the United
States and more rice than any other
state in the Union, and she heads all
tie states in acreage value of her
oiODs raised. This is a census fact.
Louisiana's forests are ineXhausti-
BILE and magnificent, and the varieties
of her timbers numerous. They are
oaks, hickories, ash, elm, gums. mag
nolias, pines, cypress, maple and a
quantity of others. Louisiana has the
greatest area of long-leaf pine of any
state in the union, and has more cy-
press timber than any other state, and
she is now TIE second lumber pro-
ducing state in the Union, ranking
next to the state of Washington.
Louisianas mineral wealth is at.
tracing worldwide attention. She has
within her borders the greatest sui.
phur mines the world has ever seen.
1t is taken out of the earth SO per cent
pure. Her fuel oil and natural gas
fields are unsurpassed in the United
States. Some of her oil wells have a
record of three million barrels of oil
each. She has the greatest deposit of
pure rock salt in the Western Hemis-
phere. 1t comes up per cent pure.
Louisiana's health is good. The
death rate is far below that of many
states in the Union. Many years have
elapsed since there were epidemics,
and the thorough knowledge and mod
err treatment of yellow fever makes
the disease one that is only not fear
ed, but of little danger to the patient.
Louisiana's cities and towns are pro-
gIessive, thriving, business-like and
anxious TO welcome people from other
sections.
Louisiana's people are peaceful.
courteous, generous, liberty-lovine.
loyal and always ready to extend the
hand of good fellowship and hospi.
tally to the stranger in her borders.