A Hand Book Of Louisiana Giving General And Agricultural Features Together With Crops That Can Be Grown And Description Of Each Parish Climate Health Education Industries Railroads Water Courses Forestry Etc Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Louisiana Giving General and Agricultural Features, Together With Crops That Can Be Grown and Description of Each Parish, Climate, Health, Education, Industries, Railroads, Water-Courses, Forestry, Etc In The Preparation and compilation of data for the publication of such a book as will give with accuracy and clearness the varied and immense resources of a State which is only yet in the infancy of its development it is necessary to cull from every available source possible. In this book we have taken from our previous hand-books, we have given copious extracts from Hon. Jos. E. Ransdell's ''On to Dixie" speech in the House of Representatives in the Sixty-first Congress, almost his entire speech, ''The Lure of the Southland," recently delivered in the United States Senate; we have copied from the National Magazine the article of Garnault Agassiz on "The Untold Treasures of Louisiana," and are under obligations to Professors W. R. Dodson, W. H. Dalrymple, E. S. Richardson, E. Pegram Flower and many others for courtesies extended, and to the United States Agricultural and Census Bureaus for valuable data. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.