1868 Items from the "Union Record", a Newspaper Published in Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana Submitted by: Shawn Martin Date of Submission: 12/2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1868 Items from the "Union Record", a Newspaper Published in Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1868 Union Parish Crop Report from the "Union Record" From the New Orleans "Sunday Times", issue of 2 August 1868 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the Parishes. We copy as follows from the Farmerville, Union parish, Record, of the 25th: The corn has pretty well matured, and will be a sufficiency, and the cotton is progressing with satisfaction, budding fair to yield an enormous crop if the worm does not come with its blighting effects. We learn that Mr. John Nolan had perfectly opened bolls on his farm last Wednesday, and if August does not give us a wet spell, picking will commence in earnest about the 10th or 15th of the month. But as a damper to the hopes of the farmer—and we may say of every one who has the prosperity of the South at heart—we hear rumors of the caterpillar making its appearance in a few localities. Mr. John M. Lee, a few miles north of town reports that the genuine cotton eater has made its appearance in different parts of his cotton field, and are at the time webbing up. ############################################################# File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/union/newspapers/articles/1868union-record.txt