The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1886-09-25
MAGNIFICENT PLANTATION
|fhe Hands of a Progressive, Intel
gent and Liberal Minded Farmer,
s,taining Nearly 1000 Acres OF the
Finest Land i'm the State, Situated
in Grenada County.

al in Grenada County.
An occasional correspondent of the
NTINEL dropped in a few days since
lon Capt. A. Frazier, (whose plantation
ENr about one mile east Of Elliott Station,
this county,) for an hours chat by
quiry as to local news and neighbor-
cd ondits. OF course, after little
II bile, the subject of crops came up, and
bon inquiry as to the Captains prospect,
suggested that we shonld ride over
|oN broad acres and look at it. With
IN other friend we were all soon in the
ddle and then commenced tramp,
|hich lasted several hours, wherein we
n : w the largest part of eighteen hundred
i res of the finest lond lying on the
II linois Central Railroad, between Cairo
d New Orleans. This body Of land is
btirely above overflow, Capt. Frazier
lnp.| living spent many hundred dollars in
llll tightening the tortuous windings on
lie large creek on which it is situated.
here were six hundred acres in cotton
Na& hich are good for four hundred bales
hd four hundred acres in corn from
hich four thousand bushels can be
ey hA ~ athered. There were but few acres of
SsN sa,s bis large and splendid plantation that
'nFA bre tie least signs of exhaustion, for the
Ieason that it is too rich to wear out
md too level TO wash In one field alone
n. bur hundred acres as level as plane
!. I'll Game under the scope of our vision. The
whole of this large tract lies on Bogue,
and is SO constructed by nature with
natural drain as to obviate much expense
n of artificial means There were fields of
bottom that were bending to the ground
with the superintendent weight of the
| green and open bolls. Several fields
= we're new ground of second years use
that showed all the vigor and freshness
ia deep, rich and almost virgin soil.
|. I'VE have seen much of the be>t lands on
the Tallahatchie and Mississippi rivers,
Ind must say that for uniform fertility
Ind level location, we have never seen it
excelled, considering its extent and COM
an pactness.
H On this plantation there are about one
hundred laborers scattered around at
convenient distances in comfortable
cabins, each supplied with pumps, wells
or springs of clear, good water in almost
inexhaustable quantity. Itt"kes thirty
five good mules to do the cultivation and
answer other purposes of farm life. Capt.
Frazier has just built large new gin
house with a forty horse power steam
Engine to drive the fine eighty saw gin
and grist mill, and press of the best
and latest Improvements, which easily
packs twelve bales of cotton per day,
Around the homestead there arc apples,
peaches. plums and pears in abundance
and of the finest quality.
Taking it altogether it is one Of the
finest plantations in the State, the land
being not only rich, but almost without
undulation and yet entirely destitute Of
cold or glady patches, which often dis
Figures as we'll as impairs the low lands
Pin various parts OF the State. There was
one thing that we could only view with
regret, and that was the utter destruction
OF so much large and valuable tim ber for
Sthe purpose of preparing the new land
N for cultivation. But such is, and has
been the waste of the cotton farmer for
ages past, and yet without mills and
consequent !local demand for lumber, it
I'd is the method for preparing new lands
$N for the plows. -Four continuous miles of
E bottom,-yet no overhowed cotton lands
@ on constant running, stream as Bogue,
G& is q sight seldom seen outside the Missis-
~ sippi stream.
|# After several hours of constant riding
\ we reached the manor house about o.
H clock, where sumptous dinner pre-
|% pard under the skillful supervision of
Mrs. Frazier, awaited lis. TO say that
# We were in readiness for its ample ard
savory supplies, would be to admit that
E# our gastronomic appliances were not in
H good condition. Capt. Frazier and his
excellent lady have long been known for
their abundant, cheerful hospitality,
where plenty and good cheer 20 hand in
hand, and makes the stranger loath to
S3 leave, and ready to return to their
pleasant home when pleasure, duty or
M interest calls.