The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-04-10
LoulSlANA'S LANDS WELDING
RicHCLY.

tivity"
The Record shows that more thar
$S4,OOO,000 was the value of the yielC
OF 5000, TOP acres of developed land In
Louisiana during the year. 1914, the
average acre yield being 1855. The
figures used were taken from the an
nual report of Commissioner e. o
Bruner, of the Louisiana State Depart
ment of Agriculture and immigration
The figures above given do not include
the values OF large quantities of poul
try, eggs, honey, butter, home-canned
fruits and vegetables and other pro.
ducts sold or used at home, nor dc
they include the production of three
parishes still to make reports.
THE figures, too," the Record says,
are confined to agricultural produc-
ton. In estimating the total produc.
ton of the State must be included g.
985, $4,000 feet of lumber, valued at
$S5,O36,9S5; sulphur, $14,0OO,OOO; oil
$4,44S,635; salt, 100000, and natural
gas, $4,000, together with the output
of 1877 factories, $25,649,075, not in.
Guiding the industries of New Orleans
and the cotton-seed oil mills of the
State
"The output of New Orleans facto-
ries may be conserVatively estimated
at $9O,OO0,O0O and of the cotton.seed
oil mills at 100000, bringing the
total for the selected outputs up to
$259,OO0,O00, which is about one-half of
the value of Louisiana production on
all lines"
The production, by quantities and
values, for the acreage given, during
last year, is shown as follows by the
Manufacturers Record:
Corn, 3O,SOS,OO5 bushels. i. 500 ,O27, 1886
Sugar. 4O9,O91.4S pounds. 1850, $50
Cotton. 43S,36O bales. 15,417 ,O9O
Rough rice, 5O2,sOs, 92O lbs. l1,O74, 344
Cotton seed. ........ 100000
Hay, 32S,004 tons. ....... 1914 100
Sweet potatoes, 5,224,S55
bushels. ............. 1886, 621
Syrup, 96,070 barrels $500. 1851
Milk, 5,190,3O0 gallons. 80. l,540,3 300
Molasses, 298,225 barrels. 1,461, 962
Strawberries, 1882 carloads. 1,214,60O
Oats, 1907 ,O94 bushels. -. 1886 21
Irish potatoes, 1,312,150
bushels. ................. $4,000
Cattle, 1859 carloads. ..... 675,725
Vegetables, 1853 carloads. 596,S12
Canned goods. 446,2OO
Peanuts, 347,91O bushels. 325,619
Oranges, 1876, 400 boxes. -. 133,500
Tobacco, 100000 pounds. $4,000
Hogs, SO carloads. 1886
The above makes a. grand total val
uation of $S4,29O,S25.
In addition to the foregoing, saw.
mills, sugar mills, cotton-oil mills, can
neries, factories and other industrial
plants, swelled the yearly output some
$685. s5.
In conclusion The Record says
1.-THE lands of the State are valued
at $245,39S,S77. 1t is, therefore, ap-
parent that the opportunities for in
vestment in productive enterprises in
Louisiana have hardly begun to be
realized"
There is not the least doubt but that
The Records article on "Louisiana's
Productivity" will serve as an excel.
lent advertisement for Louisiana and
will result directly in encouraging new
capital to invest in the extensive acre
age not now under cultivation.
There are about 2S,O00,OOO acres of
land in Louisiana and less than 6,000,-
900 of that number are under cultiva.
ton. all of which shows conclusively
and beyond any reasonable doubt that
Louisiana, from development point
Of view, is in the infant state.