LOUISIANA 



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LOUISIANA 



THE FACTORY 



Sugar refining 

 Lumber.Tfmber 



Cottonseed Oi!,Cake 

 Preparing Rice 

 Burlap Bags, etc 

 Bread , etc. 

 Printing, Publishing 

 Beer, etc. 

 Fbundry.Machine- 

 Sheet Metal- 

 Railroad-car Repairs 

 Cooperage, etc. 

 Manufactured Ice 

 Turpentine, Rosin 

 Men's Clothing 

 Leather Goods 

 Preparing Coffee,Spices 

 Cotton Goods 

 Fertilizers 

 Food Preparations 







LOUISIANA PRODUCTS CHART 



Figures Based on U.S. Government Reports 



Millions of Dollars Annually 

 10 20 30 40 50 60 



THE MINE 



Sulphur 

 Petroleum 

 THE FARM 



Potatoes 



Fbultry raised 



Oats 



Cattle sold 



Eggs 



Swine slaughtered 



Dairy Products 



Sweet Potatoes 



Garden Vegetables 



Cotton Seed 



Hay 



Rice 



Sugar Cane 



Cotton 



Corn 



The swamp regions contain extensive and mag- 

 nificent forests of cypress. Hardwood timber, 

 represented by oak, cottonwood, red gum, mag- 

 nolia, ash and hickory, is found throughout the 

 state. As regards lumber products Louisiana 

 now ranks second, being surpassed only by the 

 state of Washington. 



Agriculture. As this region has a fertile soil, 

 a semitropical climate, and an abundant and 

 well-distributed rainfall, it is only natural that 

 agriculture should be the chief occupation of 

 the people of the state. About one-third of 

 the total land surface, approximating 29,061,000 

 acres, is included in farms, the average size of 

 these being eighty-six and one-half acres. The 

 average value of farm land per acre is $18, land 

 in Louisiana having a slightly higher value 

 than that in any other of the Gulf states. 



Louisiana leads all the states of the Union in 

 the production of rice and sugar cane, but corn 

 and cotton are of equal or greater value to the 

 state, and occupy a larger acreage. Rice has 

 been grown here for many years, but its pro- 

 duction has increased enormously since 1880, 

 when new methods of cultivation were intro- 

 duced. Nearly fifty per cent of the total pro- 

 duction of rice in the United States is grown in 

 Louisiana, and from twenty-five to forty per 



cent in the neighboring state of Texas. The 

 entire region west of the Mississippi and bor- 

 dering on the Gulf of Mexico, the center of 

 which is Crowley, in Acadia parish, is now one 

 extensive rice field. About 400,000 acres are 

 under rice, and the yearly production averages 

 more than 10,000,000 bushels. See the article 

 RICE, for map of rice production in America. 



Louisiana produces over seventy-five percent 

 of the sugar cane raised in the United States. 

 The region situated around the lower part of 

 the Mississippi, and generally known under the 

 name of the "sugar bowl," is devoted to the 

 cultivation of cane. The sugar plantations 

 cover an area of over 500,000 acres, and the 

 yearly production of cane is about 5,000,000 

 tons. 



The cotton plantations cover over 1,000,000 

 acres, and Louisiana, with a yearly production 

 of 400,000 bales, is usually ninth among the 

 cotton-producing states, ranking after Okla- 

 homa. The area planted to corn is steadily in- 

 creasing, covering now over 2,000,000 acres; the 

 yearly yield is about 40,000,000 bushels. Other 

 important crops are oats, sweet potatoes, gar- 

 den vegetables, hay and forage plants. 



Many of the fruits of warm and semitropical 

 lands, such as oranges, grown especially on the 



