PINE HILL LANDS 

 The Pine Hill Lands embrace an area of about 4,900,000 acres, located 

 about the central part of the State on both sides of Red River, with a small 

 portion lying east of the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. These lands 

 are commonly known as the cut-over pine lands, which can be bought on 

 very reasonable terms, and which are excellent for diversified crops. 



The following is an extract from a survey made from this portion of the State: 



"It is only within the last few years, since the timber has been so 

 largely removed and the agricultural population of the region has in- 

 creased, that any considerable areas of this soil have been under culti- 

 vation. Its location is excellent, thus insuring good drainage; it responds 

 readily to fertilization and holds moisture well during the summer, 

 while its fine sand content makes it an easy soil to work. With these 

 advantages it is well adapted either to truck growing or to general farming. 

 At the present time it is used for all of the general crops of the region, . 

 besides such special crops as strawberries, cabbage, radishes, lettuce, 

 tomatoes, and other trucking crops. With ordinary care and attention 

 cotton will average one-half bale per acre. Corn will average about twenty 

 bushels per acre, although as much as fifty bushels per acre is sometimes 

 grown after some highly fertilized crop. There is a moderate acreage in oats 

 and satisfactory yields are secured. Trucking is becoming a very profit- 

 able industry, and the profits from a single acre are sometimes $200 to 

 $300 or more, depending upon the season, the market and the care and 

 attention given to the crops." 



Soy Beans a Good Hay and Silage Crop for Louisiana 



The crops most usually planted in the Pine Hill Lands are cotton, corn; 

 sorghum, oats, peanuts, sweet potatoes, velvet beans and soy beans. Cotton 

 is the staple crop, but it is giving way rapidly to diversified farming, more 

 attention being now paid to the raising of oats, hay, clover and velvet beans. 

 and the production of cattle and hogs. 



PINE FLATS 

 (Cut-Over Pine Lands) 



The Cut-Over Pine Lands of Louisiana occupy an area of about 1,300,000 

 acres located in the southwestern portion of the State and east of the Missis- 

 sippi and north of Lake Pontchartrain. Because of their advantageous location 

 to markets and the low price at which the land can be bought, the truck grower, 

 the farmer, the dairyman, the sheep grower and the cattleman are rapidly 

 investing their money in these lands. 



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