St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-01-01
St. Tammany Parish Has
Unrivaled Possibilities
for Agriculture.
REPRESENTATION \ 4.
FOR THE FARM
Drainage, Pasturage and
Cattle Will Make tie
Land Profitable.
(By A. E. Br.ggs)

(By A. e. Br:ggs)
The problem OF restoring plue u
cut-over lands is not conAnedtO Lht
piney woods region OF The Gul Goa !
of which we are reminded Dy a.
art.c-e in the current mum DeroI LIZ
Country Gentleman. For a "hoi'
generation the states OF Mchlgah
Minnesota and w sconsin hae mort
or less un5uccessfully faed 1t
Much of those lands in contrast te
ours are very fertile; but toDaiance
advantages they have TO Date Wltn
long, hard, cold winters. tefores7
tration has not succeeded thre. IN
that country today more tnDer Is
standing in farm timberlotsthan IN
forest areas. But neither hive they
succeeded in farm settlement for the
yearly increase N the cut-oer acre
age goes at much more rand pace
than the clearings from far1 LANDS.
The fact of the matter is That, IN
spite of the fertility Of the and and
the proximity to the best gain anu
livestock markets, it is no an at
tractiye proposition to the FARMER
Instead he goes West and bus a new
improved irrigated farm. l nave
had personal experiencesof these
facts. and recall especiallyan Iowa
farmer who sold his 100 are iowa
farm for $3O,0OO.00 and invested
SIS, 100000 of it in % acre OF :rrl-
ratea land N the Rio Grade river
valley. No one ever head OF 81.
lands sailing atiuch n5-
u,e for agr cultural purpose ana yet
there are acres in st. TamIany par
tsh which have yielded aslarge re-
turns on farm produce as ay In the
100 Grande valley.
Three or four years iagothe COM
pany was then connected attn maue
a loan on blue grass pastre valued
al $4,000 per acre. Las week l
auo1ed authority at some#engtn as
TO the comparative valne5OI carpet
grass, now quote froI another
expert: "God carpet
grass will carry at leastas much
live stock as good blue erass pas
ture.' Still another SAP OF the
com bination Of carpet gras and les
oedeza Cor Japan clover, which also
grows wild here): hese two
plants promise the produc1on OF pas
lures that can be excelld in no
other section of the coutry, as to
both the quality Of the gazing and
the length of the grazlg period
particularly the latter II this Is
true. and it cannot be dobted, why
do we lag as cattle contry, why
do we raise an inferior attic, Why
do we produce carrion an a health
Ter crop Of buzzards thai are found
In any other section ofshe United
States? Farm practice in North
NJ ssouri gives the ans~r. There'
adjoining the blue grss pasture
grows a thrifty corn cro1 In other
words, general farmingmakes the
value of the Missouri fam and the
farm in Iowa, Illinois an Nebraska.
And there are sections ( Alabama,
Mississippi and Georgia In the same
general type of land weaave IN TINS
parish) which prove th ability OF
his country to stand ona par with |
my section OF the Mertlin the pro-
luction Of livestock, S.W. Greene,
If the Coastal Experimnt Station,
says: Nowhere can a,reater pro-
'usion of forage crops btgroWn than
n the piney woods. 1t l common to
grow two crops on tht same land
,yery year and it is oen possible
o grow three. This gies a hand.-
,ap which largely owcomes any
possible deficiency in Oil fertility.
instead of the practict Of growing
! legume in the corp ltatlpn as is
common in the North every third
ear. it is ent rely feaable to grow
i rlegume on every acreevery year.
such facts prove indisutably that
his country has agricultural posi-
,ilitie, not excelled or perhaps
'qua led by the North, md it might
,s more conyincingly sbwn that 81
rammany parish has privaled o9-
,ortunities. ] hope tOset tn out
ii more detail, but we re consider
ne now the means hoWEo realize on
'ur natural advantages.
Reforestration in thi9arish must
70 largely CUuuHcu W 70 AoA Ia eAA |
eriot, to which it is lifted indeed
" the pra rie fires; AMI the prairie
res will not be extingished until
ur cattlemen have abadoned the
ree range for the MOI prohtaDle
'usiness Of livestock rming, for
hen only VIII they tap the care
. make such a pasture rival blue
rass and bermuda ant which we
ave more than ayailab liz carpet
rass. Only by farm iproyement,
hat is, by q rotation GRO system on
he farm, does livestock tnsiderap1y
Increase the value Of lad. AS to
ogs this statement by Aafstant as
cultur: st E. S. Haskell the U, $,
indicates te reason:
The piney woods hogs az underfed
uring half of the year,hence are
mall and of poor qualit with the
esult that the lower lices they {
ring on the market offsethe slight
y lower cost of productn, to say
othtns of the greater risl and loss
5 from cholera and othelep denies
esulting when that metho of handl-