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Excerpt from An Outline of the Resources of St. Landry Parish: Showing Its Agricultural Advantages, as Also Its Immense Resources for the Raising of Cattle, Horses, Hogs and Sheep This region 1 produces sugar cane, cotton, .-potatoes.. (both irish'and sweet corn, tobacco, pumpkins, turnips, peas, beans, millet, rye, pea -nuts, sorghum, broom corn and barley, Wheat and oats have been tried With good success. The average yield of these. Products may be thus stated; taking the experience or intelligent men as our guide; sugar cane, 1500 lbs of sugar and 75 gallons of molasses per acre cotton, 1300 lbs in the seed per acre com, 35 bushels per acre; 'potatoes, (well cultivated) 275. Bushels per acre; pumpkins, peas, beans and pea-nuts, give very heavy returns, but we are una ble to give precise quantities, owing to the fact that no person has ever taken the trouble to ascertain the quantity per acre. A fine nutritious quality of hay can be made from the indigenous grass of our prairies, and m quantities to supply the local demand, and leave a, good malgin tor exportation to other markets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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