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HOGS, SHEEP, PEACHES, APPLES, PEARS, FIGS, MELONS buING WEI.L IN HANCOCK COUNTY
June - 1867
N. 0. Times - Wednesday, July 3, 1867 - p 2 c 2 quoting Bay St. T.ouis Gazette
IN THE COUNTRY
Riceville, June 20, 1867:
The direct road from Varnado's Mill to this place could not be traveled due to high vater so we made a detour and came by way of Habolochitto Bridge.
The country between those two points is for the most part in the wilderness state, though the few small farms along the route show that an industrious man may make a comfortable living.
Livestock and Crons
The summer range is very luxurious.
Hogs do well in the "bogs" and ravines, and get fat in the Fall on the pine mast.
Sheep are healthy and in prime condition the whole year round.
Peaches, apples, pears, figs and melons do well.
Fair crops of corn, potatoes, rice, indigo, tobacco, peas and pindars may be made. All those are now looking well.
Col. ]_. Kimball Property
At Habolochitto Bridge we found the fine mansion and store of Col. L. Kimball, and was welcomed by him with his well-known hospitality.
He has a large tract of very valuable timbered land, and a small but well arranged and well cultivated farm that will bear out all I have said about the productiveness of our lands when prooerly treated.
The river here is a beautiful stream, shaded with evergreens and flowery shrubs, that kiss the flowing water as it murmurs by. There are mossy seats, velvet turf, bowers made by the bending trees and the festooned vines.
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