A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . ONION FIELD, LAFOURCHE PARISH Lxm. COTTON COMPRESS. LAFAYATTE. UA. There are several thousand acres of United StatesGovernment lands in the parish. Lands arc worth from $ to $ per PARISH. This parish is situated in the northwestern part ofthe State, and contains 497,920 acres of land, and has apopulation of 23,029. The formation is good uplands,red sandy clays, the soil being fertile and is drained by the headwaters of Bayou DArbonueand numerous small streams. Homer, situated near t
A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . ONION FIELD, LAFOURCHE PARISH Lxm. COTTON COMPRESS. LAFAYATTE. UA. There are several thousand acres of United StatesGovernment lands in the parish. Lands arc worth from $ to $ per PARISH. This parish is situated in the northwestern part ofthe State, and contains 497,920 acres of land, and has apopulation of 23,029. The formation is good uplands,red sandy clays, the soil being fertile and is drained by the headwaters of Bayou DArbonueand numerous small streams. Homer, situated near the center, is the parish seat,population, 1,157, and is on the line of the Louisiana andJStorthwestern Eailroad. This railroad runs through theparish north and south, and has direct connections withthe Cotton Belt, the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific,the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company, andthe Texas and Pacific Eailroads. Water is plentiful andof excellent quality. Cotton is the chief product; corn, oats, hay, peas,sweet and Irish potatoes, tobacco, hemp, wheat, buck-wheat, sugar-cane an
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