This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The town of Wesson, in Mississippi, was struck by a cyclone on the 23d of April, and the pine forests in the vicinity utterly uprooted, as well as the houses destroyed. Wesson is to be sympathized with. It was one of the first places in the South which after the war went into the development of home industry. Here they grew their own cotton, and manufactured it on the spot, finally producing an article as cheaply and as good as that manufactured in any Northern State. A visit to these mills, then in their infancy, some years ago, is among the pleasant recollections in our editorial experience.
 
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