The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-08-15
Truck Farming and Raising
Livestock in West Feliciana

twelve miles north of st. Francisville.
Other newcomers to West Feliciana
parish are Mr.. John F. Page and
family, also his son and family, who
came from Covington, KY, and located
at Wakefield.
We grow all the clovers here, lespe-
deza, white and sweet clover grow
wild, and crimson clover does espec.
tally well. We have begun planting
alfalfa, too, and it promises to do fine
in this section.
Here are some of the results obtain
ed: Mr. M. ]. Daniel, at Elm Park,
ipastured IS hogs on red clover from
January to May, and they all kept fat
and fine. Mr.. Fielding Merwin, at
Pinckneyville, pastured cattle and hogs
on his fields of crimson clover right
Through the winter. Mr. A. Smith
Bowman, CD his Alton Villa plantation,
raised 10 acres of rye this year, it
growing splendidly and giving big re-
turns. We make from 80 to so bushels
of corn to the acre, though 60 to 70
bushels have been obtained. Our lands
ordinarily produce from Is to so bush
els of oats to the acre, there being a
Il
record of &c bushels per acre on an
80-acre field. Our 1913 sweet potato
crop averaged 40 barrels per acre, fol-
lowing behind Irish potatoes, the av-
erage price last season on Sweets"
being $3.50 per barrel. On Irish po-
tatoes the yields this year ranged be-
tween so and 70 bushels, and salts
factory prices were obtained as a
whole. Cabbage, too, do mighty well,
this years winter crop producing an
average of 125 to 1856 crates per acre,
and the selling price held to rs cents
per crate all season.
Another instance of the rare adapta-
bility of this section to live stock is
furnished by DR.. J. w. Brandon's stock
raising experience. He pastured his
cattle through the past winter without
any trouble at all from cold, and in
March he sold bunch of beef cattle
to New Orleans butchers; of the lot,
three were especially fine; two of them
weighted 1900 pounds, and one weigh
ed 1,400 pounds These cattle did not
have solitary mouthful to eat the en-
tire winter except wild cane and
grasses off the range, and handful OF
salt occasionally. Messrs. ]. B. Nicely
and F. S. Percy, at Plettenberg, car
ried through the winter 900 head OF
cattle on their ranges and lost but 6
head from all causes; they sold sew.
eral head in March and April weighing
1000 pounds. Horses and mules are
also raised here, which would be a
circuit u MlSSOuIl VI TAcHtuChy.
Blessed as this country is with the
finest grasses on earth; Bermuda, car
pet and other native grasses, growing
all the clovers, full of wild cane, with
24O days between frosts, with the
finest of water, with So inches of rain
fall, superior transportation facilities
and low shipping rates to all parts Of
the United States, it is case OF being
simply impossible to hold West Felic
lana parish down. Add to the above 8
country full of good people, churches
and schools, and you have section
, worth while-just what West Felicians
! is; and in conclusion it may be sale
, without much fear or contradiction
| that West Feliciana is offering the
homeseeker as much as, or more, to
; day, for his money than any other par
, of Louisiana.