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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.
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but the number of summer visitors swells these figures to seven or eight thousand people. The town is closely built; its streets extend eight miles or more along the water frontage, shell-paved and finely shaded. These •drives are lined with elegant villas and handsome dwellings, in the midst of trees, shrubbery and flowers. Two or three thousand northern visitors can be nicely accommodated in the place. Being so near to New Orleans markets, the larder of every house, if necessary, can be replenished daily irom the city. •
The principal hotel is the “Crescent,” which has accommodations for a large number of guests. The host of this well-known caravansary is Hon. A. V. Toulme, the Mayor of the place. Among prominent citizens of New Orleans who have residences at “the Bay” are*Louis Leonard, E. Delcorral, L. Adams, F. T. Lestrook, John Crawford, and others.
Nicholson Avenue and Waveland are suburbs of “the Bay.” New ■Orleans owners of pleasant places at the Avenue are Paul Conrad, Win. Blake, L. H. Fairchild, Alfred LeBlanc, Geo. Nicholson, M. Mazzerat and Dr. Levi. A portion of the city contingent at Waveland com (irises the following:	J.	J. Barr, John Fell, F. W. Young, F. F. Clausen, Robert Carey,
D. B. Chaffe, R. C. Chaffe, O. Elmer, Peter Funk, Mr. Lezear, F. Boneta.
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THE LAND AND ITS PRODUCTS.
A classification of the soils of Mississippi was made and published •several years ago by the U. S. Depart, of Agriculture. The fifth subdivision in the classification includes the three Coast counties, which are in the long leaf pine region of the State. As is the case everywhere, the soils differ in fertility: some are fairly fertile, others are very thin and unproductive; all, or nearly all, may be rendered highly productive. In some localities a deep strata of tenacious clay underlies the soil. Analyses made by the Department of Agriculture of both soils and subsoils, while showing that they are below the average in the absolute amount of'nutritive ingredients contained in them, point out the proper and natural way to improve them. The soil is friable, easily worked and responds quickly and generously to good cultivation, and the judicious use of manures, natural and artificial. Nutritive manures in connection with deep plowing and subsoiling in order not only to increase the retentive qualities of the surface soil, but also to make the subsoil accessible to the roots of plants, diminishing the liability to injury by drouth. Without deep plowing the fertilizer will, to a great extent, be carried beyond the reach of plants.