The Ouachita Telegraph

A LOUISIANA FARMER.

(Opelousas Courier,)

A few days ago, our old friend, Theodule Daigle of Church Point, killed a hog that weighed 700 lbs. net and yielded 30 gallons of lard. Now, these are no extraordinary figures with him, because it is conceded he is one of the best farmers in the parish, always making bountiful corn crops, besides his full quota of cotton, and when you visit his hospitable residence you will notice that horses, work oxen, and cattle are all fat, and know absolutely nothing about the scarcity of grass or the pinching of hunger. He always has corn to sell, and having plenty of hogs we doubt not that he also has plenty of lard and butter for the market. When you sit down to his table you will find it generously garnished with fat juicy beef, choice ham, tempting fowls, every variety of vegetables, rich butter, and milk so sweet and palatable that it makes your mouth water to think of it. The best of it, however, is that all these things are raised on his place--are produced at home. Who says that farming is not an independent life, when industriously, judiciously, and systematically conducted?