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Source:             Hinds County Gazette
Name:               History Repeats Itself Armitage

Date Of Photograph: '06
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
To the Gazette:

  Some one has said, “Oh let me 
look backwards, just for tonight.”
  I cannot refrain just at this time of
referring to the year 1881: that year
and this one (1917) seem peculiarly
the same.  So few people remember
back.  I would like to know if any
one remembers the year I refe to.
We scarcely had rain enough to get
cotton up,  Having planted my crops
early, I succeeded in getting fairly
good stands of cotton and corn.  My
corn was in bottom land, and some
shoats got in and ruined the stand,
and I planted over on May 15, 
reversing the land, and got a good
stand, but it nearly died before July
showers saved it.  I made a magnificent
Corn  crop, while  all early corn
was a failure.  My cotton was small
but well formed, and I gathered 12
bales to the mule, finishing up by
Oct 14.
   There was so little rain that year
that nearly all the branches and
ponds dried up, and about in spots
you could see dead trees even in the 
woods.  We had showers along in
July similar to what we are having
now.  The drouth was general all
over the country.  Blackberries dried
up on the bushes, and  when I went
to Baldwin’s Ferry Oct. 14 that year
(1881-Geo. Anderson was keeping
the ferry)  we  had  difficulty in 
getting down and up the steep banks
with loads of cotton, and did not
have to move the ferry boat much
more than a foot.  The little water
in the river was clear, and one could
easily wad it across.
  How soon it rained after October
14   I  do  not remember,   but the
drouth was from April, except July
showers, until Oct 14.  Geo. Anderson
farmed  near  the ferry, and  made
two  bales of  cotton per acre, and
Jack Griffin, on the Belmont place,
also made two bales to the acre on
his bottom land.
           Yours truly, etc.,
                    R. A. Armitage.




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