The wetlands of southern Louisiana and their drainage . was about four years. This period couldhave been shortened if the drainage had been complete and continuous fromthe first and the land plowed a year sooner with a traction engine. Corn seemsto be the easiest and best crop to grow on these new lands, followed by sugar-cane the second and third years. Excellent yields of all kinds of truck havebeen grown on this plantation. Cane produces especially well and the tonnageper acre is very much greater than on the older lands along the bayou, exceed-ing their average nearly 50 per cent. No speci
The wetlands of southern Louisiana and their drainage . was about four years. This period couldhave been shortened if the drainage had been complete and continuous fromthe first and the land plowed a year sooner with a traction engine. Corn seemsto be the easiest and best crop to grow on these new lands, followed by sugar-cane the second and third years. Excellent yields of all kinds of truck havebeen grown on this plantation. Cane produces especially well and the tonnageper acre is very much greater than on the older lands along the bayou, exceed-ing their average nearly 50 per cent. No special treatment was given this soilwhen bringing it under cultivation and it does not appear that any was neces-sary. AREA NO. 3, LA FOURCHE PARISH, LA. This district (fig. 9) lies about 5 miles south of the village of Raceland andborders on the upper end of Lake Fields, this being the same lake from whicha part of area No. 2 was taken. The district contains 940 acres. The surface25102°—Bull. 71—14 5 34 BULLETIN 71, U. S, DEPABTMEXT OF Fig. 9.—Sketch map of area No. 3, near Raceland. La Fourche Parish, L and levee system. showing ditch DRAINAGE OF WET LANDS OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. 35 slopes gradually from a height of about 3 feet above mean tide at the north endto lake level at the south. Reclamation on this tract was started in 1907, andthe first extensive cultivation was done in 1909. The condition and generalcharacter of the muck has previously been described in the discussion of mucksoils. (See p. 12.) Levees. For the most part the levee was built of material taken from the outside ofthe district. The work was done with a dipper dredge with a short boom, andthe berm on the outside is very small and in some places entirely levee was gone over two or three times before it was brought to its presentheight of 4 feet above mean tide. The present crown is about 4 feet wide andthe side slopes are nearly as steep as 2 to 1. When this levee was built nom
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