Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-07-08
COMMUNICATED.
CoxANcHE. OKLA.


till the farmers are getting blue.
They sure have our sympathy
for we were strictly in il, this
time last year ourselves, but
cheer Up my dear old Mississip-
plans. crops may turn out better
than expected az least. that wa-
the way here in oklahoma. but l
don't believe there j. another
state thct can make a. good a
crop under the circumstance a
Oklahoma Gid last year.
Last year It was rain. rain. aud
one overflow after another until
it looked a i we would not make
bread, yet crops turned ont well,
except some bottom farms that
were a total loss. saw corn.
that looked a il il hal never
been touched after planting.
make a fair yield. One piece Il
bottom land tina. vas never
touched after planting. until corn
was six - eight feet high. then
just had a harrow run through it,
made a. much as twenty-five
bushels per acre on the best Of it.
Cotton was said % be sorry. but
! was in Walter soon n Mon
day morning. all three gins we're
crowded and running full blast.
said they ginned l49 bales sat
urday. so a good deal Of cotton
was made at last.
Last spring was rain. hail and
storms. We almost lived in the
storm cave. Two or three months
this spring and summer 50 far.
mas been delightful, no signs OF
any storms. no rain, except light
showers since last October until
9th Of June. Farmers had most
Of their crops worked out, lots of
corn laid by. and everything
looking well and no rain to speak
II, in six months; then the Bird
Uf June nice showers began to
fail and continued for a week,
crops grew 30 fast you could al
most see them grow, the 2ith We
had one big rain" SO far. creeks
overlooked a little.
Now. | wish some Of you Mis-
sissippians could see the crops.
they would make you open your
eyes some, they are as fine as can
be, too good to last" my hus-
band says. 1t just makes me
teel good to stand and look at
the fine corn that stretches for
miles and miles in every direc-
ton. Cotton j. splendid 100. but.
not n great deal Of it planted
around mere.
Alfalfa also fine, we have
about three acres sowed last fall.
have had an average Of about
one hundred head of hogs on it
siace the LIST Of April. had to
NOW it, a the hogs could not
keep it eat down; the hay Is
worth ten dollars pr ton. now
now - thst for a small patch II
feed stuif2. Such pastures |
never saw as we have here, all
stock fat and line. Our two rid
ing and driving horses have
hardly tasted corn since early
spring, just run in the pasture,
yet they r slick aud fat az
noles- Nov, I'm not trying to
persuade any Of you MISSISSIPPI
plans out here. by telling what "a
me crop prospect Oklahoma IS
now blessed with. for they say
out wes:, never count your crop
Till 1t Is gathered"
Oklahoma Is undoubtedly a.
very hne farming state, and Il
believe also, quite healthy, at
least ! have had better health
than IN twenty years, yet there
are some things | don't like at
all You cant hire your laundry
done for love or money, and
Wild don't do much of 1t my
self, | am having a rough tune
trying to make ".laundressesn
out OF Billy and the boys, | see
stars every wash day.
Shortly after moving here a
good neighbor from the North
called on me, during her visit |
asked If there were any negroes
living around who took in wash
ing. said, ''she didn'tknow. there
was a colored lady living about
two miles east
"Colored lady, indeed, | am
from Miss, my hair didn't stand
on end but think it turned seve-
eral shades grayer, however,
I've learned a good deal since
then. Then there are SO many
different kinds of people here, |
don't believe they will ever live
together as happily as back in
Mississippi. There every one
not only knows every one, but
their parents and grand parents
before them; here it is entirely
different, my good neighbor, and
| never had a better one, who
lives Just across the road, is from
Arkansas, while up the road
lives a Texan, a lew hundred
yards further on Is a family. from
No., near them lives a man from
Neb., while near the section line
lives a family from Va, and our
good doctor whose house is in
sight is from St. Louis. Joining
u on the asst is a family from
Ala, while q little north least.
lives two families, one from La.
one from Canada, joining us on
the north is a man from Iowa.
while on the west is one from