"Field work is being pushed and much
land has been prepared for the next cane
crop. Many of the planters have been
busy during the past fortnight putting
down fall plant and quite a large acreage
has already been seeded.
"Summarizing climatic conditions for
the month of September, Local Weather
Observer W. D. Park says that the maxi
mum temperature was 95 degrees on the
3rd and 6th, and the minimum 62 de
grees on the 19th. Rain fell on 10 days.
the total precipitation aggregating 10.37
inches. Of this amount, 3.12 inches fell on
the 9th, marking the greatest precipita
tion in any one day throughout the period.
With reference to sunshine, the month was
divided into 24 clear days, 3 partly cloudy
and 3 on which the sun did not show up
at all.
"Hon. Henry McCall reached New Or
leans on the Southern Pacific steamship
Momus Monday forenoon, looking very
much improved by his two months' va
cation. He spent five weeks at the Battle
Creek Sanitarium, where he was half
starved on a diet of salt-less bread and
vegetables, meats of all kinds being
strictly tabooed. The good effects of the
severe regimen are now apparent in Mr.
McCall's greatly improved health and ap
pearance, and he was in fine fettle to en
joy a couple of weeks in New York before
returning to Louisiana to resume the du
ties of his position as collector of customs
at New Orleans. He was gratified to re
ceive reports of a considerable betterment
in Evan Hall crop conditions, and wishes
the same might be true of the sugar mar
ket, which is already displaying the down
ward tendency of prices that is nearly al
ways coincident with the opening of the
Louisiana harvest season.
