The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-03
The Crops I'm the south.
TEXAS.

TEXAS.
- .tFrom the Mount Pleasant Press. April 25l
We believe that the fears entertained few
weeks since, that the grashoppers would destroy
the crops, are somewhat subsiding. There are
yet myriads of these insects creeping around, but
We hear of no serious damages from them.
[From the Henderson Times, April 2Ll
In this section of country, wheat and rye look
well-oats not 80 well. Corn is backward but
farmers have been successful in getting good
stands. Peaches, apples, plums, figs and all kinds
of fruit present as fattering prospect as could
be desired. Irish potatoes, peas and garden vege
tables generally are doing well. Altogether the
prospect is for "year of plenty"
From the Jefferson Daily Times, April 22l
Our farmers are all busy, buoyant and hopeful.
The stand of cotton is good, and its appearance
healthy, and the prospects for an abundant sup
ply of corn were never better at this season of
the year. The wheat was very seriously injured
by the grasshoppers last winter, and the report
now reaches us from the country, beginning six
or eight miles northwest of here. and extending
out beyond Linden, OF the Matching OF countless
thousands of these ravenous insects They have
as yet done but little damage, and it is to be
hoped, in consequence of spontaneous vegetation,
that the crops will be spared their further ravages
Fruit has scarcely ever been known so promising
every tree laden "to the fall " with its precious
freight,
LOUISIANA.
From the Monroe Telegraph April %
The present spring has been altogether very fa-
vorable for planting, but owing to prevailing
dampness in the atmosphere and cloudy weather
with rather too much rain, vegetation has made
very slow progress. Corn comes up, snd stands
without any perceptbe growth for several days.
Cotton does about the same way, and will have to
run the risk Of being eaten by lice besides, which,
on account of protracted cloudy and cool weather,
is q contingency most certain to arise.
From the Monroe Telegraph April 29.I
For the past two weeks it has rained nearly
every day, and the planters are justly complaining
Esl.n svsrr fn nOffn
plant, which is dying rapidly. From all appear
ances, this season opens like the last, and the
prospects are poor for full cotton crop. Corn
looks well, and we are glad to see that so large
crop has been planted. The river is rising at this
point, but is much lower than it was year ago.
IFrOm the Carroll Record, April 2al
The crops are quite promising, and all the
planters we have conversed with concur in saying
that the prospect is as cheering as they could de-
sire. The health of the parish is good. The
river has still upward tendency, aud we fear it
will Djure those of our friends who have relied
on its not being very high this season; many are
cutivating, and have planted cotton and corn on
land that was overfowed last year. The river
thus far is about forr feet below the high water
mark Of April last
From the EatehifOehss Times, April 25I
The late rains have had a bad effect upon the
plantations. Tho grass is growing too fast and
the young cotton plant is suffering. In some
instances cotton is to be replanted. The corn has
the prominent share of the crops and looks beau.
tiful. A part of Breyele Island was visited by a
heavy hail storm on Tuesday last. Fortunately
the column was not wide, embracing only about
a half mile but where it passed it has been most
disastrous, both to cotton and corn, which were
literally cut to pieces and ruined
IFrOm the HsrrisOnburg New Era, April ISL
Many of our planters have worked their corn,
Of which they have planted more largely this
season than any previous year. If the swamp IS
not overaowered, the people OF our parish will
produce more corn than is necessary for home
consumption. The stand Of cotton is good.
From the Franklin Banner, ,2dl
Peaches, plums, grapes, and nearly all other
crops look well in st. Mary. We now bid fair to
have better fruit crop than we have had for
many years. The gardens are now doing well in
this parish where they have been properly at
tended to. Green peas, cucumbers, beets, snap
beans, lettuce, and many other vegetables are
daily on the table of every good gardener. Dew
berries are abundant and blackberries are rpen.
ing. The crop OF blackberries will be abundant.
GEORGIA.
TFrom the Macon Journal, April 2s
travelling agent of the Journal and Messen-
ger who has just returned from Southwest
Georgia, makes the following report in regard
TO the crops and the general condition OF the
planters and the country. He travelled on horse
back through Bibb Crawford, Houston, Taylor,
Macon Talbot Sumter, Lee, Calhoun, Quitman,
Clay Dougherty Eally, Miller, Terrell, and Ram
dolph, sixteen counties in all, observing the fields
as he rode along the road stopping at farm
the first place, he says that one-third TO one
fourth leFs cotton has been planted this year than
last; and that instead of devoting all their force
to the raising of cotton, the planters have sown
an abuDd nee of wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley,
peas, potatoes, etc., to do them. Fine stands Of
cotton and tie cereal crop have everywhere been
obtained, and they are looking well in every drec-
tion although in some places little backward IN
comparison with other years past. The planters
have almost universally abandoned the custom of
planting little else than cotton, and are now rails
ing enough grain to do them. But in meat they
are almost wholly deficient The freedmen have
universally clandestinely killed off the stock Of
hogs, leaving in many neighborhoods not even
ore. He saw one planter with sixty head left
out Of q stock of one hundred and fifty. He had
guard over them night and day, and In spite OF
This persecution the number was diminishing.
Owing TO this state of affairs the landlords have
abandoned all efforts to raise meat, telling the
| coored people that they can stand 1t as long as
| they can. Stringent legislation and rigorous
enforcement of the laws in regard to this matter
1 are demanded. Negro men, says'the Appeal, are
working well, but on but one place did he see ne
| gro women at work. They do nothing bat loiter
| around their cabins engaged in such light work as
they choose to do. Ibe two races are % universally
digious efforts have been made by radical emissa'
| ries 10 engraft the colored people on TO their
| party, bat their efforts have failed. The white
people will for ell future time be able to exercise
an almost absolute controlling influence over the
negro in his political opinions. The negro will
quickly learn that the interests of both are iden
teal. He speaks in glowing terms Of the pros
| poets Of cambridge. The completion OF the rail-
| road from thence to Savannah has given new
impetus to the growth Of the town. The cotton
/ crop along the Chattah0ochee, north OF Colnm-
| bus; and North Flint, now goes down that and up
| Flint river and down North Flint TO cambridge,
| and from thence to Savannah, instead Of going
down those rivers TO Apalschicola and over the
Muscogee road. The Savannah and Gulf road II
taking all the freight from the country around
Bsinbridge. A new bridge viii soon be oom'
| pleted across the Flint river opposite the town.
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