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have not had to feed scarcely any com U them to fatten them, aa a good mail was made and th* hogs fattened in the wood?. Cholera is raging here now. and what few •took hog* are iefl will probably moat of them die. .Wool was a goo.! price last summer, ana •till holds its own. Sheep are not doing well here, a? the severe cold L* killing ai. the lamb*, and the old sheep are very poor and dying on a large scale.Many persons may be curiou* to know something of onr lands here. To such I will say that the river and creek land? produce well without any fertilimera, but the fine hill land? will produce but ▼err little without fertilizer*. There are fiue land* in the county that will make good crop* without any fertilisation : but % a general thing, they will not. 1 will make one or two exception* a* to production, and that is they will make potatoes the first year or two after clearing—I don t think anything else. except the native graaee*.The great drawback* here on the swamp lands are the overflows that come every year on the lowest cultivable lands but only occasionally on the best hammock land*. About every teu or twelve year*, and sometime* more frequently, a large overfl »w com-* and carries «fe*tru ctlon in iu course, both to stock and far mer*.I will close, and try to write vou again, and may lie I will give you a little ol the hie tor v of Augusta »n i its surrounding*.Very re*(ectftilly. 1. H. t\ C.
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The Clarion
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Wed, Jan 26, 1887
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