Excerpt from Louisiana
Cotton, corn and alfalfa are the chief crops produced on the alluvial bottom lands above the sugar-cane regions. Those in the Tensas, Macon and Boeuf basins above Red River contain some of the finest producing lands, and with proper care and cultivation and adequate drainage, will yield from one to one and a half bales of long staple cotton to the acre.
Corn is by far the most profitable crop that can be raised by the average farmer on the alluvial bottom lands of Louisiana since the introduction of better methods of cultivation.
Not only are the alluvial bottom lands of the State the best that can be had for growing of such staple crops as sugar-cane, cotton and corn, but they are also ideally situated for live-stock raising and the production of meat. There are thousands of acres of rich alluvial bottom lands awaiting the settler, that can be had at very low prices.
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