The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-09-20
Crops, Weather and Farmers.


Our chief returned on Tuesday eve.
ming from . visit to friends along the
Cane river coast. He reports crops
II cotton ~ exceedingly good on mos,
IT the plantations, but corn 10 almost q
total failure. Candidates sre thick %
uses and there 10 danger in being run
over BY them. Every ono Of them OK.
poets to bs elected by overwhelming
majorities.
New cotton continues to come in in
considerable quantities. Prices rule at
1o0l0a. Plenty Of money and merchan.
disc to supply the wants Of the country
farmer.
During tho lull in tho cry for "mpre
money" We would beg to call attention
to q want, which has been long, felt and
which, unless We can get out Of it our
present material, or Trombone other mate.
rial, will keep % from "more money" oil
the time. That want 10 "more work"
During our trip down the coast We saw
thousands Of acres Of % fine land ~ Q
crow ever few over going to waste,
houses once priuoely residences, tumbling
in ruin, gins once the finest, falling down
and hundreds Of stables, cabins and out
houses . mass Of debris.
And yet the VA has been over for four
teen years!
live did not know that such was .
fact ws would believe that Banks had
passed over that section Of our parish
early 10 tho year.
What 10 tho cause Of this :
It's not tho want Of money for ws are
told that most Of the lands are mort.
gagged for supplies.
ltis fr tho want Of energy; for the
want Of industry.
Tho crops Of cotton on most Of these
pisces have made themselves. Corn for
bread they have mono and every lock Of
o''ttoa will 10 for bread and meat to the
Western farmer.
All the money in tho world will never
DO . lazy aud thriftlsas people any good,
and what W lack in Louisiana, in tho
rich alluvial parish Of. Nstchitoches, 10
not money its work.
Cattle dispatShss rsport extraordinary
shipments Ut gold 70 tho United States
tr,m France and England. Over 10000.
OOd francs, Or o4.00oy QUO, have been ship
prd from Paris daring tho last three
weeks, and It 10 estimated that no less
than ii, O0O, QUO moro will follow. A lead.
INK bullion hons. In Paris estimates that
th~ sh"rtags 10 European crops viii com.
psl purchssss In this c0untr. "a tho u.
tout of> ,0O0, O00, 400. Tbere will b %
truullo, therefore, over the disposal Of
cur surplus agricultural pe,ducts.
Many p~r.ons ars pnssDsd 70 under
sts,'d Whist tho tnrms ''foarpenuy," "six-
panny" an.l ''e-npsnny" means ~ op-
pIir,l to nails. Tho Scientific American
explains thi. ly yiug thas "lourpsnny"
'n~ans f"ur pounds 70 tho thousand nails,
or ''sixpsnny" M. ans six pounds IN the
tloassdd. aid s, on. Il IL 10 old English
term, aud meant 1t drst "tsupouud"
malta (th~ thonAa"d being undsrstood),
Int tho old English clipped IL to ten
pm" aud frU'u that It drgrnsrsted until
''p~nuy" was substituted for pounds"
When 400 nails weigh lssa thsc : pound
shsy ars called tacks, brsda, etc. aud arv
reckonsd By ounces.
SHALL LEAKS on 1uy Pam.
Farners u . general thing do mt 70.
sliss tho extent of the damage they sus-
ta,n By ths ANAL leaks on farm, which
drain az the profits and cause them much
vsxstiou. There on slovsnly farmers A.
veil IN hoassks-pers, and il 10 Just ~
.wrung to waste In one place - another.
Every farmer should have room in bis
barn, or oatsids, for bic machinery, and
~ coon ~ done with % article be should
To- A.