SOLON ROBINSON, 1849 191 



The set that go out in the morning, are brought up at 

 noon and turned into a pasture, of which he has 600 

 arpents, and a new set are all ready in the stable, having 

 been previously fed, to go to work in the afternoon. At 

 night, those at pasture are taken into stable and fed 

 ready for morning and the others turned out. Thus they 

 are never fed hot, but eat less corn, and are less sick, 

 wear longer, and can be driven harder, while at work. 

 He makes and uses 18,000 bushels of corn a year; has in 

 use 100 plows; 20 large iron-axle carts, with brass boxes. 

 Average crop of sugar about one million pounds. 

 January 24th, 1849. 



High Water in the Lower Mississippi — Prospect of 



AN Overflow — Present Sugar Crop — Effect of 



High Water upon the next Crop, &c in a 



letter from an old correspondent 



OF THE Gazette. 



[Daily Cincinnati Gazette, February 28, 1849] 



Plaquemine, La., Feb. 11th, 1849. 



Messrs. Editors : I am shut up — cabin'd — crib'd — con- 

 fined — i. e. 1 am located just here while it may please 

 heaven to grant a cessation to this outflowing, down 

 tumbling, two days shower. Thank fortune though, 

 all the rain that falls here in these lower regions, dont 

 raise the river any, because unlike any other christian 

 country, water dont run into the river hereabouts, but 

 runs out of it. And unless you "up-country folks" soon 

 cease to send down your floods, wo be to this devoted 

 land. What a satisfaction it would be now, if we were 

 all assured that we were born to be hung, for then we 

 should feel safe; whereas the drowning prospect is just 

 now much the strongest. 



The river has been continually rising all winter. Three 

 or four weeks ago I was on the coast below the city and 

 they then had as much water as they knew what to do 

 with, but being satisfied that it could not rise any higher. 



