New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1916-08-12

uIally some OF stneSe lanos are moie VIZ
gin than others, and especially rich i
this land in nitrogen.
In Iberia is to found growing-grea
fields of sugar cane, cotton, corn, field
of truck potatoes, tobasco peppers, oats
lespedeza, pastares of forage crops
vetch, clovers, Bermuda, etc, and beauti
full groves of fruit and pecans.
Formerly sugar cane was the leading
industry by far. Today diversification i
the order of the day. The one-crop sys
tenn is a thing of the past and a new
agricultural era is dawning. Hand il
hand with dive1sification is the rapid,
developing live stock, dairy and swine
industry.
! With the repeal of the free sugar
clause of the tariff bill the sugar indus
try will proceed with more stability and
certitude, but the people of the parish
will never revert to the one-crop system
again. The cane crop of 1910 had a
! value of some two and half million
dollars.
Corn does we'll in this parish and
| with the advent of the silo and cattle
industry the acreage is being greatly in
creased, while many farmers raise corn
to be shipped to foreign markets.
Rice has developed great prominence
in the parish of late years, there being
something like 1000 acres planted to
rice in 1915. The yield averages about
IL to IA sacks containing from 18O to
20 pounds to the sack.
Since the advent of the boil weevil,
cotton has never regaincd the prom
inence it once held, but considerable cot
ton is still raised. Cow peas, the Glow
ers, vetch, oats and various forage crops
make a most wonderful growth on these
fertile Soils The clovers, vetch and
lespedeza are to be found growing wild.
Tabasco pepper growing has become
an important industry, the yield being
from 80 to 50 bushels per acre, worth
from $500 to $500 per bushel. Some
thing like 800 arces are devoted to this
crop. These peppers are grown for
manufacture into various condiments,
the principal Of which being tabasco
sauce. The MdIlheny sauce manufac-
tured At Avery Island in the parish, is
known the world over.
Being unusually nitrbeenous, the
Doil h admirably adapted to truck, |
especially those articles requiring sI
great deal Of nitrogen. The average for |
'west potatoes il from 50 to $50 barrels |
10 the acre. This seems to be the home |
# the fig, pecan and native orange. The
5g rarely failure and huge quantities
# pecans are shipped annually. Along
3ayou Tsche can be found thousands Of
'scan trees. At Avery Island alone there
re 1900 fig trees Of the Celeste and
100 Of the Magnolia.
There 10 no greater livestock country
. America. In Z land where crops
row 20 luxuriantly and where vegeta-
ion is 30 rank; in . country where
attle can grass out in the open for
wslve months in the year, cattle can be
aised here ~ economically - any
here, and maybe more %. DIPPING
lts have ben established in every ward
J the parish and in Z few months the
arish will be declared tex free. The
ederal government has recently e.
'blished five hundred acre stock DEM
astration farm in the parish and great {
any thoroughbred herds Of short horn 4
ID Herefords are seen here, while the
liry industry is already = vel estab- .
'hed and paying industry. Milk is +
tipped to New OEleansa nd the local q
eamery. II
The cultivated area of the parish is
Il subject to overflow and there IL not .
farm in the parish over four miles
om rail or water shipping points, an Il
vantage few counties Of the South