New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-02-20
IT CAN BE DONE.

: The first carload of cabbag
ever shipped from New Iberia wa
shipped this week by Mr.. C. '
|. Riggs. Mr.. A. C. Bernard of tn
Chamber of Commerce sold tn
:. car and in spite of the low price
now paid for cabbages he secure
. for Mr.. Riggs $4,000 per ton net
This is at least six dollars per to-
better than the market gardener
III New Orleans are receiving. W.
know that the cold storage cab
bage being thrown on the marke
at this time in order to get ri(
Of it before the new crop comes
on naturally lowered the price
but Mr.. Riggs received the ven y
handsome sum of $4,000.
Planted in the three foot, ordi-
nary cabbage rows, Mr.. Riggs
would have not over two and half
| acres in cabbages. He has
shipped some twenty-seven thou
sand pounds and expects to total
at least tWenty-seven tons. This
is the neat sum Of $594.00 on this
small tract of land and at a time
when his land would have other
wise been idle. Who said cab
bage could not be grown here.
Why this is the very home of the
cabbage and it seems to do better
In our black lands than in any
other part of the Union. Our
black lands are ideal for cabbage,
lettuce, and caulifower. Who
said we had no markets for what
We raised? Why it isn't the mar
ket we lack, it is the produce for
the market Mr.. Riggs is an en-
thrsiast on the cabbage crop, but
Mr.. Riggs realizes and under
stands perfectly well that he can
easier sell fifty carloads, yes an
carloads than he can one.
This is exactly what our Secretary
OF our Chamber of Commerce has
been telling our farmers; that is,
to raise whatever produce they
10 raise In great quantities so that
he big produce houses will find
t worth their while to come to
New Iberia and get their supply.
Not only do we have the ex S
nipple OF one Of our farmers sci S
ing some six hundred dollars ,
worth of cabbage from few t
ores, but we are actually con-
ronted with the spectacle of hav- s
ng the market calling on us TO. s
reat quantities Of cabbages and S
'e have to answer that we haven'i q
OF the crop. n
The following paragraph taken v
rom a letter received by Mr.. Ber- t
ard should put at rest all our a
ak about no market: f
eff you have a sufficient acre a
ge to justify it and your farm b
rs want to trade on a reasonable fl
asis. the writer will be glad to n
lake special trip to New be e.
a to try and effect an arrange 81
ent whereby we would buy your W
ltire crop. We do not handle s;
lbbage on any other basis than OF
buy it outright. We do not Il
ant it on consignment al
This letter is one of many, all u,
aiding alike and is from the OF
lad Of one of the largest cab W
lge firms in the whole country. re
OF only this, but this same gen tt
eman has since inquired from al
e Secretary Of the Chamber of is
if New Iberia could OF
rnish him one or two cars a day la
d when Mr.. Bernard replied ia
at We could not, he wanted to or
low if we could furnish him or
TN a car every other day and in
peated his desire to come here en-
d buy outright everything we tn
d for sale. Of course theI
lswer is plain. The Chamber ii,
Commerce can't tell this gen in
'man to come, knowing that he tn
Mt find enough business to
stify his making the trip. We flu
informed however that we will m,
We possibly some five cars be
lpped later. Now that some of dil
r farmers have taken the advice vi,
planting enough to make ship av
'nts and the Chamber of Com tu
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