The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-12-20

land man will tell him that he can
support cow on an acre of this rich
plantation land, when the facts are
that some of the land will feed two
cattle without great difficulty. He will
find that this is corn country by ma
ture and that grasses, clovers and COW
peas all grow luxuriantly here. So he
will reap the harvest of toll by invest
ing in silo to preserve his green feed
and the drying machine and barns for
his dry stuff and roughage And he
will also screen his barn SO that COWS
may not be infested with mosquitoes,
and have dipping vat as a preventive
for ticks. Then he is fixed. The out
Hay is made and it is comparatively
small. After that the profit is steady.
1t has been such in countries where
dairying is carried on under less fav-
orable auspices and a forbidding eli
mate. 1t will be here.
There is another fallacy which is
| held in the South. That this soil is
too rich to devote to the dairy indus.
try. There is nothing more unbound
ed. 1t is true that dairying can be
conducted in way on poor land and
that the soils are greatly enriched
thereby, but better results, immeasu-
rably better, are obtained from richer
soils and the values of those lands
have been enriched as we'll Look at
!, the fertility of the drained lands
around Kankakee and the rich dairy
belt of northeastern Iowa. Those lands
are worth fabulous figures, yet the
| farmers prosper and amass fortunes
from stockraising and dairying. These
old plantations are not perhaps as rich
as they were. Sugar planting year af-
ter year has exhausted the soils and
the use of fertilizers to force larger
yields of cane has done likewise So
they are ripe for the enrichment which
would come from pasturing stock upon
them.
"What | am trying to do is this. |
want some of these planters to buy a
herd of cattle and erect a creamery.
This dairy farm would be model for
the colonists who could be brought to
buy up the lands in small tracts of
forty to eighty acres Their success
would surely induce other planters to
do likewise and in a short time, after
the movement was established, the
section would become a prosperous
dairy community. 1t is the natural
thing and failure of creamery ID
almost unheard of. Dairy communities
are always heavy depositors and their
credit is good. In fact, there Is moth
ing which gives state better credit
than to turn it's attention to dairying.
The farmers have an asset which is
recognized the world over as worth
increasing values. The herd grows
more valuable month by month; the
land accrues in value and the outlay
is the least after the farmer once gets
started. In this rich section the farm
er will not need so much land to make
his living as in the cut-over sections
and by using intensive farming meth
DDS his profits are increased proper
tionately.
"Then there is another factor which
will bring the dairy farmer here and
that is the certainty of an abundant
market in New Orleans and through
out the state. While the supply Of
milk is increasing, the wealth of New
Orleans will be augmented for capital
will surely be attracted here to en-
gage in the creamery industry. In
fact, the capital here already engaged
in dairying will be only too willing
to increase its facilities for the manu-
facture of condensed milk, butter,
cheese, etc. Louisiana is the biggest
consumer of condensed milk in the
Union, am told, and the amount of
dairy products used in New Orleans
alone is more than $16,00OO00 annual
ly. Of this, $3.50 daily is the value
of the condensed milk, two carloads,
which is shipped here daily from the
North, East and even from the Pacific
slope.
Few persons know that there is
less than 5000 gallons of milk shipped
into New Orleans daily, while there is