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LaFrance: In the old homestead they had 210 acres, and in the other place they had 50 acres. We started raising cattle, hogs, and stuff like that. The cattle got lice. We could not sell to New Orleans.
Guerin: Were they free-ranging?
LaFrance: Free ranging. Old Man Carrol, down a little further, had 1000 acres. We had that and we had this end, we must have had about 3000 acres on the south side of the railroad..
Guerin: Part of that you rented?
LaFrance: No, we didn?t have to rent it. We just had the cattle run there; we didn?t have to rent it.
Guerin: Whose land was it?
LaFrance: Well, Weston owned it, and later on, Lusich wound up with it. It was OK. At them times, everybody had cattle in these woods. No such thing as stock laws in those time; you had hogs, goats, and everything out in the woods.
Guerin: Where would you market cattle?
LaFrance: Well, you first started off we would bring them to the stores, like Shaddrick (?) at Waveland - he would buy calves from you. Wilmer (?) at Bay St. Louis - he?d buy chickens, eggs, anything you had from you. What we did, years ago we dipped cattle, but they had quit it, so I cleaned out the old vat, built a lot and everything else and went up to Pearl River station and got this pecky cypress and I got the railroad to get me some cross ties -1 knew the foreman up and he would bring them down there and dump them off and I?d go down there and pick them up - I?d use that for posts. [We] made chutes. Stones was county agent at that time, back in the 40?s, so he came down and he charged the vat for me. With DDT at that time. So we dipped them every two weeks. Others had cattle in there, DD Green, about 60 head among the three of us. First year we got rid of the lice, so then we would bring them to New Orleans.
Guerin: Would you truck them to New Orleans?
LaFrance: In 1948 I bought a little 3A ton truck, just the cab and chassis. $700 from the Ford place behind the courthouse - Fritz, the Ford Company. ?47 hurricane had carried some of the beacons from off of the lake, so I found one of these beacons and I tore it all down and I made the body for this truck - my uncle helped me - and I got an adapter dual wheels -1 put springs on it, and that?s what I used to bring to New Orleans. I could pull two big cows or 10-12 head of hogs. And I?d take some of the hogs over to Dedeaux?s. With the hog business, I had Campbell?s Island.
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