Photographs and Memories: Old Book Gives Details About Area’s Agriculture

By Bill Ellzey, Columnist, HoumaToday.com

“Sugar cane is the principal crop; rice, corn, Irish and sweet potatoes, onions and all varieties of garden vegetables are grown. The sugar cane is grown on the deep lands facing Bayou Lafourche. Rice, corn, potatoes and onions on lands that are more narrow.”