Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-03
TEXAS LETTER. j!
Uncle Ev Writes Interestingly
of His Trip and Crop Con
ditions in HE Far
West.
Editor Edgefeld Advertiser:

aglne mySel1 at MaElk. MaElk.nASeslliSSS nAeslS . ~ az
looking out in front and think o
Bro. Gamewell Smiths 8 and Jo'
Bouknight's, for thelsection Of coun
try.I am now in reminds me very
much of the lands aronnd ] ohnstor
and Trenton. Yes, I aasat the home
of my Texas boy. leftg Augusts
at 1925 Tuesday a.. M 4 9th, lay
over in Atlanta un5iI 5:S5 p. m
and at 19:45 on the night of the
goth was in nine miles spf my son
but had to spend thesBalance of the
night there. At eight O'clock
Thursday morning spung lady
drove up to the static naIaa sI inquire .
for me and took me oysr osmy sons
home. 1 found him nnehi stronger
than l mad hoped and 81 this writ
ing he is still holding bls, strength,
and I am hopeful fEatEif he car
keep the strength he now has till
September, he will rally through the
winter months.
This is fine section of country;
lands level OF nearly SO. Il is not
black land but a very dark grey,
The crops seem to belate and the
farmers around here Say the crops
ara nearly a month late. The early
corn is ready for: the tops to be cut.
They pull no fodder. Most Of the
cotton has been laids though ]
see a few still riding and down
the rows finishing es, slF
riding, one horse ipe middle AID
the other horse in the next, the
plowman sitting qpaon the cultiva,
tor guiding the ploWs Most of the
corn that I have seen is good, and
the cotton also. Rightih this section
of country there has been no rain
for about three weeks, bnt the crops
don't seem to be suffering but very
little. The boil weeyil is here and
doing some q, Il, ahe farmer
do not seem to think that it will
amount to much.
A more friendly people have
never met. have met and talked
with quite a number, and / find that
+bare are a few here living who
came from the old states and the
fathers of the rest. All came here
from the old states and a large per.
cent from South Carolina. They are
a wide-awake people, have good
schools, churches ana Sunday
schools. l was in the Sunday school
yesterday. Went to the Bible class
and enjoyed being there. Will at,
tend a union meeting in four miles
of here next Friday and Saturday.
l have not been around much yet
but will start to visiting a little to,
morrow:
] never saw any crops wi Hot
within sixty miles Of Shreveport,
La, and it was from all appearances
caused from excessive rainfall, but
from the point mentioned to where
1 am the crops get better as | came
west. I saw acres Of cotton and corn
that had never been worked at all
and large areas where it looked like
it might have had the first working
and no more. The grass nearly as
high as the corn, only the tassel and
a blade or so above the grass while
the cotton looked like it wasEin a
trough. T saw numbers Of persons
plowing and haeing all along but
the prospects of getting pay for
their work looked poor to me.
The Mississippi bottoms near
Vicksburg for II miles out have
no crop of any kind on them. When
l got about thirty miles from the
river I saw what I thought was late
spring oats, acres upon acres, but
was enlightened by a young man
who told me it was rice sown after
the cotton was killed by a freeze on
the 18th of May. So you see some
thing to eat growing where cotton
would have been. Possibly we south
ern folks will learn something to
our advantage after awhile, but it
has just simply got to be mauled
into us.
l talked with gentleman yester-
day who said thathe had. been some
distance along the Red River in
Arkansas and he said he
saw no cotton or none to amount to
anything. Of course I came route
high up in Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi but if where I came
along the rains have been too ex.
cessiye for crops it is but reasonable
to suppose that lower down where
the lands are more level would be
worse. Right in this section / am
told the crops will make an aver.
age one, if everything suits from
now on. There are from six to ter
grown bolls on a good stalk and
from four to six on average stalk,
Well, Julian, must close, for |
find if I am not fattening l am
growing lazy and tis dinner time