The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-08-15
z. Matthews in Modern Farming:

J. z. Matthews in Modern Farming:
West Feliciana parish is particularly
we'll suited to live stock production
because of abundant forage, plenty of
fine water and the presence of lime in
the soil, giving "big bone" to all animal
life. Numbers of our farmers have
lately gone into the dairy business and
are doing well, shipping milk to New
Orleans for 2 cents a gallon, and sell
ing it the year round for between 20
to rs cents a gallon And with the
prevalence of magnificent grasses, wild
cane, drainage and efficient transpor-
tation, this section is bound to become,
in time, one of the leading dairy and
live stock sections of the South.
Since the coming of the boil weevil
and the passing of the cotton from
former Importance, there has been a
noteworthy development in oats and
lespedeza, trucking crops and live
stock; a great deal of seed oats and
lespedeza are, each year, shipped out
of West Feliciana all over the South.
AS result of these developments and
the strong trend toward live stock
raising, considerable transfers of farm
ing properties have been recorded dur
ing the past Is months. Chief among
such sales may be mentioned the pur-
chase by Hon. John M. Parker, Of New
Orleans, of a 4,000-acre place near the
town of St. Francisyille, which he is
converting into a model stock farm.
His son, John NJ, Jr., now lives on the
plantation, and in connection with Mr..
J. Bob Daniel, who has managing
interest in the place, they are spend
ing much money in converting the
property into one of the finest stock
places in the state. Mr. Parker has
bought nothing but the best blooded
animals obtainable, such as Aberdeen
sAngus and Hereford cattle, Berkshire
and Duroc-Jersey swine, French coach
studs, splendid Kentucky jacks and
brood mares.
Mr.. A. Smith Bowman, of Lexington,
KY, has acquired about 1000 acres of
land here for general farming and live
stock. Mr.. Bowman is president of
the Bellevue Farm Company and of
the OK Suburban R. R. line of New
Orleans. He and his family are now
living here on the Alton Villa planta-
ton, one of the grand ante-bellum
homes of the cold South" located
near Wilcox post Office.
Messrs. J. B. Murphy and Edward
Murphy, sons of the president of the
Sugar Exchange, and the former for
mang years sugar planter, are now
living in West Feliciana, being engag-
ed in raising cattle. Mr.. Lee o. Lester
and DR.. E. S. Milford, from Deming,
: New Mexico, are also most worthy
additions to the parish, they having
just bought about 5000 acres of land
here for farming and the raising OF
blooded live stock of all kinds.
Another move in the right direction
for the putting of West Feliciana par
ish to the topmost position in variety
of profitable farm production rests in
the move of a colonization company
selling off one of the big plantations
of the parish to Ohio Valley people
who are buying in tracts of 100 to SOC
acres. So far, nine colonizing families
have located here, more arriving every
: month, those who came in time te
start at crops this year having raised
: cabbage, potatoes and followed genera
farming; these farmers located at Plet
! tenberg station, on the L. r. & MR..