Excerpt from An Invitation to Immigrants: Louisiana, Its Products, Soil and Climate, as Shown by Northern and Western Men, Who Now Reside in This State
An examination of this record discloses the fact that in this State the farmer can work nearly the entire year, while in other portions of the coun try men and beasts are imprisoned for months by barriers of snow and ice, with scarcely six out of the twelve months to labor; here the farmer can work the whole year and receive remunerative return from the soil for his labor. During most. If not all. The winter. Horned stock, sheep and hogs, will live without shelter upon the native growth of the forest and the grasses of the field. Loss of crop from untimely frosts and freezes or from continu ous drouths is seldom experienced. Successive creps from the same land in the same year are usual occurrences. The bottom lands of the Ouachita, the Red and Black rivers, the alluvial lands of the Mississippi, the prairies of Southwest Louisiana, and the hill lands of North Louisiana, all yield hand some and grateful returns for honest labor. Ca xc, cotton, corn, rice, pota toes and grain of nearly every description, are safe and staple products of these lands. Fruits and vegetables of everv variety indigenous to a tem perate latitude, can be cultivated profitably and successfully and be ready for market and shipment when the greater portion of this country is still n rapped in snow and ice.
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