The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-07-06
STATE ITEMS.

again this week. The crops and
gardens have improved wonderfully
since the rain.
Southern. Watchman Reports
from the different sections of the
parish are to the effect that the crops
are. looking fine; but a mighty tussIe
is going on between the planters
and the grass.
Bossier Banner We have had
too much rain for cotton during the
past two weeks. Grass is growing
very fast. and the farmers are begin
ming to look blue over the prospects
| OF grass to be killed as soou as the
rains cease.
Sugar Planter And still the
showers are partial. Numerous rains
have fallen throughout the parish
during the past ten days, but no
heavy, soaking down pour. AS
natural consequence, the crops im-
prove very slowly.
Ope|ousas Courier The recent
local showers, although light, have
enabled our farmers to go on plant
ing late cotton and rice and put out
sweet potato vines. There has been
rush of the plows and hoes, also, in
working the older cotton, and lay.
ing by corn. There is marked i'm
provcment in all Of the crops since
the showers.
Thibodaux Sentinel After a long
drouth the rain has come, and plenty
Of it. The sugar cane, corn and
other vegetation is booming. Plant
ers are generally laying by their
cane as fast as it can be done. The
agricultural prospects have greatly
improved during the last fiftecn
days. The rains hayo caused the
crops to grow rapidly.
st. Landry Democrat The crop
prospects, in most localities 10 our
parish have materially frightened
during the past week. The long
continued dry spcll has been broken,
and in most localities, copious rains
have fallen, which have given new
life and vigor to vegetation, and
caused the farmers heart to beat
with anticipations of a fair, if not q
bountiful harvest.
Lafayette Advertiser The rains
have broaght ont the clover and
grass in luxuriancc, and the stock
find good grazing ground in abun-
dance. They have improved in con.
dton rapidly since the drouth was
broken We hear no complaint of
need Of rain from any section of tho
parish just at present. Everybody
has had enough, and would be glad
to have a stread of clear, warm
weather about week long.
Sugar Bowl We have had an
other week Of most favorable wealth.
er for crops Of all kinds. Cane has
grown with wonderful rapidity since
the rain set in. The young corn
crop has been saved by the timely
rain, while the older crop has been
greatly benefited by it. The rice
crop has been much improved every
where, and the cotton crop is supurb.
being full of blooms, forms and bo'ls.
Hence this promises to be an aver
age crop year.
Pioneer Daily showers have out.
lined the parish, and the cry is now
"hold enough" We do not recall q
season when rattoons presented
better stand or a more luxuriant
growth-their Weld will assist ma
terially in making up for the def
cheney Of the plant cane. Laying
by is now the work On each planta-
ton, and the clods which we have
been turning over for months past
are now dissolved, and will assist in
the growth of the crops.
Welch Crescent We learn by an
interview with Prof. Knapp, Of Lake
Charles, in the New Orlrans Item
that he estimates this seasons rice
crop in CaIcasieu parish at about
100000 barrels. While we believe
the acreage of the parish has been
doubled, even in some sections
trebled, we doubt if our crop reaches
such figure. But with fair sea-
son from now until harvest, our crop