The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1881-09-10
The Outlook

The Outlook.
He who can see many bright
stars shining through the clouds
of the future h~orisOn, has a vi
vid imagination, and is possessed
of a strong faith in the develop
ments to come.
Perhaps, there has never been
IA year Of such universal drouth
throughout the United States as
the present one; certainly Lot for
% years.
Throughout the grain prOdu-
cling West, the wheat crop has
been saved before the dr0uth etfec
ted it, to any great extent, still it
is a short crop. Corn is complete
ly burnt out and has been cut
green, to be fed as fodder to the
stock. TIE yield will not proba
bly, be more than one fourth Of an
ordinary crops; Irish potatoes
that should now be growing are
burning up in the earth.
The clover aud grass, with
which the farmer calculates to
tatten his stock, in preparation
for the coming winter, ard put
his hogs in good condition to fat
ten in November, is dried up, so
that the winter will find the stock
poor and sickly and but little
corn OF hay tor their subsistence.
The corn needed to fat'en their
hogs will not be found, and the
hogs that will be killed will be in
no envious condition.
Passing the cotton growing
region, it will be found that
the cotton blooms, after one
picking, dies and produces no
more, instead OF continuing to
produce new bowls until late iii
the year. thus cutting the croi
down % to 80 per cent.
Sugar cane has ceased to grow
and nothing but an average hall
yield is anticipated, 10y the pru7
dent, calculating planter.
The rice crop has been about
the only product that has 81 Fl
anything like al acreage yield t.
the grower.
Looking over the whole desola-
ted field, it will be tonnd that the
crops of wheat is below an aver
age, those of corn, hay, cotton
and sugar are injured tiom % Il
Is per cent The failure Of COR
and hay viii! greatly diminish the
amount OF Pork and beef tba
will be sent to Market.
Aid this is the case, not in On'
!: spot. or two spots, but all ovel
tue United States, Canada. Swift;
erland and other parts Ut Europe
In Illinois and many Oth-l
States, stock is driven 20 to Al
miles 70. water. In Richmond
and some other cities, people a.'
forbidden to use water for wash
ing purposes to prevent Il famin,
of water to drink and cook with
And still it does not rain. Tn
4. Ohio and nearly all Western an,
! Southern rivers ale almost, if no
. quite dry. In Louisville the pa
pers state, the streets are full O
live stock foI sale because thei
oWnerS caDnot feed them.
In all this gloomy future tn
rice grower seems TO be the onl,
j.. man WHO has been fortunat
y enough to make Il fair crop.
! Flour and Pork has alread
, advanced 40 per cent, corn, oat.
and hay follow suit and no prop
ct can 1oresre the stopping poin'
! Reader, this Is not written as
sensational article. 1t is simply
collation. Of facts that have bee
gathered from the papers and t,
egrams OF the last 60 days.
Would that it were mere spec
lation! If you think SO go I
your Grocer aud inquire of hiu
Produce does not rise withor
Z some substantial reason.
There is Il great deal more.
fact than poetry in this articl
$ \ wise man will use such facts I
his advantage and prepare I
meet the inevitable when it Il
. riyeS.
:: AIR. Bourre is refitting h
store, corner of Main and St. Ph