The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1888-07-07
STATE NEWS.

of too much rain and says the crops
are grassy.
The St. Mary Review says many
planters of that parish have laid-by
their cane crops.
The St. Martinsville Messenger
says last week has again been TOO
unfavorable to the planters.
The crop reports from some por-
tions of Cameron parish are good.
and the yield promises large one
this fall.
The Crowley Signal says rice
growers in that parish are praying
for more rain. and it looks as if they
would get it.
Thibodaux Sentinel: The pros
pect for a 6ne rice crop is excellent.
and we have reason TO hope that it
will bring good prices.
Sugar Planter: Reports regarding
the crops in almost every section of
the State are extremely cheering.
In some sections, however, too much
rain is complained of.
! L. G.. Echo: Farming will soon
begin on a large scale in our parish,
and orange culture is beginning to
attract the serious attention of those
who are looking this way.
Sugar.Bowl: For the past two
weeks this section of the country
has been visited by frequent and
heavy rains, which, if continued,
would be injurious to the crops.
Assumption Pioneer: Weather
hot and rainy. But little work has
been done by our planters, and those
who have not finished laying,by are
seriously retarded by the rainy spell.
| Ouchita Telegraph: The recent
excessive rains and the present hot
sun are severely injuring the cotton
plant. The former has put the cot
ton badly in the grass and the latter
is now burning it up.
Iberville South: The senate has
agreed to the appropriation of $780,
coo for the Bayou Plaquemine, and
we may now calculate with certainty
upon the much-needed improvements
to our town front and the bayou.
A special to the Picayane from
Franklin, 9th ult., says: Heavy
rains have prevailed for the past
week and some few planters are, to
some extent, in the grass with their
crops. The weather now promises
to be clear.
New iberia Enterprise: Owing
to an excess of rain and the blind
ness of the mass of our people to the
advantages of proper drainage facil-
tiles, the crops are suffering and the
public roads are q disgrace to civ
ilized community.
City Item: The way to drain the
, city is to clean the canals and ditch
es, and whirl the pumping wheels.
This will do the work without un-
necessarily draining the treasury
, or the peoples pockets; and above
2 all it can be done at once.
Lafayette Advertiser: Rain every
day; and it is getting to be very
serious matter. The crops in some
t portions of the parish have been
damaged to considerable extent, but
owing to the peculiarly favorable
s nature Of our coil crops generally
. are in much better condition than
! one would imagine.
: Donaldsonville Chief: We have
', had rain every day this week and in
nearly all portions of the parish
!. there is complaint that crops are
suffering from a superabundance of
moisture. Rice is of course an ex-
) ception to the rule, and cultivators
5 of that cereal are perhaps the only
people among Us who view the pro-
tracted wet spell with entire equan'
unity.
0 OpeIousas Courier: Owing to the
' daily showers which have fallen for
= the past two or three weeks our
j farmers have had severe struggle
with crab grass, and with al! their
{ energy and labor have been unable
to keep tLeir cotton crops in clean
J. condition. The prospect of corn
= crop was never better, and the out