CROPS 



The principal crops of Louisiana are cotton, sugar-cane, corn, rice, - 

 potatoes, hay crops, truck crops, velvet beans, soy beans, oats, peanuts, tobacco 

 and citrus fruits. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration for the State of Louisiana 

 furnishes the following estimate of crop values for the year 1918: 



Cotton crop $100,000,000.00 



Sugar, molasses and syrup (if), 000,000. 00 



( lorn crop ' 56,000,000.00 



Rice crop 35,061,000.00 



Hay crop 6,521,000.00 



Sweet potato crop 6,240,000.00 



Irish potato crop 3,560,000.00 



Vegetable crop 3,100,000.00 



Fruit and nut crop 2,000,000.00 



Oats crop 1,980,000.00 



Peanut crop 1,980,000.00 



Strawberry crop 1,252,000.00 



Tobacco crop 82,000.00 



Cotton, the Principal Money Crop 



Cotton 



In common with the other Southern States, Louisiana has a large territory 

 adapted to this plant, but Louisiana has the added advantage of any other 

 southern state in that a larger percentage of her territory is eminently adapted 

 to the production of sugar-cane and rice; and of late years, especially since 

 the appearance of the boll weevil, these crops, with corn, have proven safer 

 and more profitable than cotton upon the rich alluvial lands in the southern 

 part of the State. But from the northern part of the State, south to the Atakapas 

 Prairies, cotton is the dominating crop, except on the alluvial lands south of 

 the mouth of the Red River. North of this river, even on the alluvial lands, 

 cotton replaces sugar-cane and becomes the principal crop. In the Pine Hill 

 Lands, where there is much cut-over land, cotton produces a good yield with 

 a small amount of acid phosphate as a fertilizer. The yield is from one-fourth 

 of a bale on lands in the northern part of the State, to one-half or three- 

 fourths of a bale on the uplands and Atakapas Prairies, to a bale or one and 

 one-half bales on the rich Alluvial and Reclaimed Marsh Lands. 



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