. Louisiana and Arkansas railway; its territory industries and financial condition ... ertising and that has already been startedamong the class most interested, viz.: farmers owning high-priced lands in other parts of the country. LIVE STOCKSeveral superior sorts of food for cattle, such as alfalfa,lespedeza and cow peas, can be grown at almost everypoint on the railroad. Corn and cotton stalks furnish anadditional source of feed, and farmers are learning that theconversion of these products mto beef is unusually profit-able. Cotton seed meal, one of the best fatteners known,is obtainable at
. Louisiana and Arkansas railway; its territory industries and financial condition ... ertising and that has already been startedamong the class most interested, viz.: farmers owning high-priced lands in other parts of the country. LIVE STOCKSeveral superior sorts of food for cattle, such as alfalfa,lespedeza and cow peas, can be grown at almost everypoint on the railroad. Corn and cotton stalks furnish anadditional source of feed, and farmers are learning that theconversion of these products mto beef is unusually profit-able. Cotton seed meal, one of the best fatteners known,is obtainable at any one of the many oil mills scatteredthroughout the country. Local stock breeders use largeamounts of this feed and, in addition, thousands of Texascattle, on their way to the packing houses of the North,are annually held for fattening at some convenient shippingcenter. Hope secures a great deal of business of this character. MANUFACTURES Owing to the many advantages possessed by the South for manufacturing, the number of factories has grown with LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS RAILWAY 55. ,-#«^«^ STAVE WORKS AT WINNKIELl) great speed. Though perhaps the most important of theseadvantages is the proximity of raw materials, others areapparent. Fuel costs almost nothing, water is obtainablein abundance, land and building materials are cheap and themanufacturer is not subjected to the often unreasonabledemands of organized labor. In Louisiana an additional
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