St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-08-30
WHAT BILL SAW.
ALEXANDRIA, LA, Aug. 81, 1884.

EDITOR ST.. TAMMANY FARMER:
Everything ready for the move
at 1916 2. NJ. arrayed in my new
travelling suit, thought I looked
immense-hair done up Ia mode
First station out from New Or.
leans, Annisville; mostly gardens
some large cane fields; water jus
left the highest point; cane from
one to three feet high; the countr,
is low and muddy. and thousands
OF acres abandoned; from the size
Of the old subtle, the cane was no,
larger than your finger, but yer,
thick.
Fifteen miles out. and we see the
rice fields. Most of the crop is be
ing harvested, and looks fine. The
cane is better, four to five feet high
as the land is higher. Corn looks
very sorry.
At twenty-five miles, most Of the
land is sown down in peas, more
than hal! Of the plantations lying
out.
Thirty miles out, the country is
good for alisatofs, bull frogs, moe
casln snakes, etc, with small under
growth and regular network Of
vines, inhabited by very few Of
those people that Darwin would
have us believe exist. Here is where
lie found them.
Thirty-fye miles, Dusan. The
cane is looking better; six feet high
I mean the stalk as it grows
and the most popcorn I ever saw,
at least 100 acres.
Forty miles, aud more popcorn
about 500 acres. And yet here is
more popcorn and peas, peas and
popcorn.
Fifty miles out, and now for it
1T is a woman, aud I fear she has
bad breath. for I smell moccasin
snakes; thank the Lord, the con-
ductor moved her to the smoking
car. A new industry to me here is
about fifty acres of cypress logs all
sizes and lengths, lying high and
dry. and there never was a saw-nill
III this country. As we pass along
l see they are irving the logs up
into boards for fencing. And right
here we are passing the biggest
field of pop corn. A little old house,
three chickens, one pot and an old
woman making soap and | hope
she will be successful, for more than
one reason. Just new, here is where
they make tue rice-two sections of
land. at least. Cutting, threshiny,
hauling and shipping all
going on nice y, and I thought of
how much "ham gravy" it would
take to put on it. The farms are
much better and better cultivated.
Cane is looking better, but not as
tine as III st. Tammany parish. We
have just passed through eight
miles Of rice, 10y from one to out of
sight, aud yet they say the rice
fields are not located OH tile rail
road.
Bad country again, at Delagny
Station. Two-thirds of the cane
,wo feet high. Rice good. ].
At st. james, nothing to write
tbout. Didn't see it. 1t may be !.
mistake, but these negroes do MT
ook like ours. l am Weakening Oh
he Darwin theory.
Dona d ,onvi 'e-all vile, and II
reap of those queer looking ami
nails, and they may be people. The
lille, [ see, is divided by a large
'ayou running through it, and il
caves nothing on either side / |
aw two mules III field. but they |
'ouldu't stop for me to tell the man. |
Sixty miles, farms well cultivated |
nd different kind of seed corn,
nj I'm glad of it. (white castle)
Seventy six miles. higher country.
,w one of our kind of niggers, for
e had shot gun and a brindle
oS, but | saw no castle.
Plaquemine, considerable of
lace, but not as big as Covington;
oted for fine. healthy-looking chill
rem, aud plenty Of them. Here
Q left corpse. but 1 didu't know
until it was off aud gone. And
ere | got close to those Darwin
eople. They are not SO dangerous
) they are ugly. I put on specks
y eyes are not hurt. We are
tossing a singular looking river
full Of logs and a mill on the
ank-and no water in it. That
ill man made Is mistake. l Just
link of the awful suspense; the
II stopped right in the middle Of
lie bridge-afraid to draw breath,
ut can't do well without it. Off
e go, and on terra frma again.
thought of Covington, and how a
sneral smash-up would read, and
| that.
At West Baton Rouge, and the
st cotton I've seen; small but well
uited. Twenty minutes to eat, I,
en- five miles of bramb.e brush