The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-06-09

OncIai journal Of the CITY q Aon1o0
MONROE, La. JUNE .. 1883.
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TRY...CIsOt's AND OTHER
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TRY--CIsOrs AND OTHER |,
MATTERS.
The Firemen's grand picnic at the
Baker place on Bayou DeSiard last
Thursday was the occasion OF our pay
inx I visit 10 that beautiful country
the ,first IN number Of years. Going
and coming we inspected the crops OF
the various places bordering the Bayou
and found them all in splendid condl-
ton, The first place we noticed par
st,cularly was that Of our fellow towns
man. Mr.-H. Filhiol. The place has
recently been greatly improved, Mr..
Flihiol having had new fence pu' up
along lis entire front, and one that VIII
last 4 century. It is post fence maze
OF plank and barbed wire. The posts
ware taken from the burdock hedge D,
tween his and the Mcclure places.
The corn looked well and the cotton
showed a good stand but little too
much coco. On the opposite side OF
the lane from Mr.. Filhiors place is
the Mcclure place, now owned by the
Masons OF this city and cultivated ny
Messrs. Oaks and Ransom. Their
crops are in good condition. AS stated
ii, our issue Of the Goth ult., the bayou
!. side of this place, containg between 2ao
{ and 800 acres is entirely devoted TO
corn. It presents a beautiful appear
!. ance and if the weather continues
favorable the yield will be abundant.
we stopped at Capt. Oaks residence
+ on our return, but found that he and
! his family had gone to the ''moun-
tains'' west of the Ouachita in search
! OF health. Mr.. Ransom was at home
and did the honors, showing us about
the place and giving us all the informa-
ton needed about the crops. We no.
ticed that Capt. Oaks had not neglect
ed his watermelon patch and we are
going to call on him again one ofthese
summer days. The cabins and fencing
on this place are also in fine condition.
Mr.. Geo. Miller has good crop, both
of corn and cotton. We are sorry to
say, however, that he is now con fined
to his bed and cannot give his inter.
ests his personal attention, but he has
good substitute in Mr.. Andrew Mad
den q planter of ripe experience. On
the Mason place, owned and cultivated
by Herman Meyer, Esq, as is also the
Baker and Richardson places, the cot.
ton shows a good stalk and fine leaf,
but It looks to US, particularly SO on the
Mason place, as being too thick.
We noticed more corn on all of these
places than has been planted in previ
Gus years, some German Millet, which
does not do so well, and fine yield o
oats. On the Richardson place the On
crop had just been reaped and raket
into piles. the sight of which remind
ed us of the valleys up in old Virgini'
and Ohio in harvesting time, and j
struck us as marking new era in tn
planting interests of.this country. Ger
tainly IL is to the best interest of GU
planters TO produce all their grain an
forage here. 1t is clearly demonstrate
that it can be easily and cheaply done
The road leading out to the bayou
we are sorry to say, is not in so good
condition as it should be. In the shol
distance we went we encountere
/ several very ugly mud holes extendiu
across the entire road. This does n,
speak we'll for our Police Jury, nor #
the City Fathers either as to the matt
of that, for it is more to the City
interest, than the Parishes even, thu
this road should be kept In good conc
tion.
Returning home we saw several lit
darkey piccannys with some excelle
fish that had been caught from {
bayou and we regretted not havii
+ taken our fishing tackle along with I
that we might have tried our Luz
We endeavored, however, to buy
mess from one of these little barefoot
words of the nation, but too
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