Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-12-30
For The Gazeite.)
BATON RoueE, Dec. 2e, 1919.

Il
M, Editor, | see some remarks in YOUR last
SATURDAYS Gazette, relative to my Patent
Cane Covcrer, signed 3. & n. Tillotsor, In
which, those gentlemen draw an inference
that either YOU or must tbink that the "su-
gar planters Of Louisiana are far behind The
age'' and they say ..surely if half the bens-
fits as stated in your paper Of the 9th instant,
are to be derived from Mr.. Bryan's cane
%corerer, every sugar planter should forthwith
adopt it."-Now. Mr.. Editor, | do not recoI-
lect what you did say, nor ain ! responsible,
nor is The cane coverer for what you may have
said in relation to it, or about il, that the
Messrs. Tillotsons could draw an inference
which would seem that the sugar planters Of
Louisiana or any other body Of planters were
star behind Tie age But | doassert Sir, that
this is the age of Improvement and THAT Ihare
inrented nm improrenent, (and have it PATENT
| cd by the U. States Goye-nmeni) for covering
cane, that It will cover cane as fast as 20 or
| 30 hands with their hoes. THAT although the
| Messrs. Tillotsons think they car cover A or
S acres with the plough, by running a farrow
each side of the planted cane, yet ! will
guarantee that my patent cane eoverer VIII
| cover ten acres Of planted cane and do il bet
ter than they can with their best ploUghs,
which is doubling es,e work and saves the la.
bour of the "hoe after 10 remove any clods or
Jumps Of earth 10 make perfect any defect OF
the plough" say further that d good sugar
planter with fifty hands, using my patent cane
%coverer and patent cane cutter, will plant
and take off a crop equal to one OF the same
character with from sixty to seventy bands,
using the ordinary mode Of cnltlvatIng sugar,
and that if any planter uses any part of my
principle for covering or cutting cane which
is garanteed to Inc by patent from the United
States Government, without obtaining the
right Of use from me, he violates all principle
of honesty and subjects himself, to prosecu-
ton for such violation. Those planters who
have seen the cane coverer as well as The
cane cutter, (and some have used them) pro-
nounce them useful and labour saving ma
chimes, they set their own value upon them,
without my asking it. And their valuation is
all ] seek. They are honorable men and be-
lieve are not s'far behind the age As to the
causes which have produced short crops OF
sugar, I have not yet invented any machine
for telling, but it seems Messrs. Fillotson's
conclusions, are that the sugar planters ''are
far behind the age" in the fear Of tod, that
they all (for | believe crops are all shorty la
bour unnecessarily on the sabbath day, and
consequently must never expect prosperity,
and that the shortness OF this present crop
must be a judgment sent from Heaven, "as a
cause for that cause" Now the truth and
business of the G~entlemen's conclusions, l
leave with the sugar planters themselves. be.
lieviDg as / really do, that they are not SO
..far behind the age" 10 love and fear Of God,
because / believe His ways are inscrniable
and past finding out. We read MIR. Editor,
that God chasteneth whom he lovetb. 1t may
be SO with the sugar planters of Louisiana this
year. But really, it seems to me that the
Messrs. Tillotson, are much like the Pharisee
who stood up in the Temple to pray, and said
"God | thank thee that ! am not as other men
are" and well may they say il, three hogs
heads to. the acre is large cropping for this
year, and all (they suppose) for not working
on the sabbath. God be merciful to Us sinners.
The sugar planters and all others can see
my patent cane coverer and patent cane cut
ter, by visiting the Agricultural Fair to be
held on the 9Th and 9th of January, at Baton
Rouge, as they will both be exhibited there
and can be had by applying to my legally au-
thorised agent, Alfred Gates at B. Rouge.
With respect,
a~E Your obedient servant,
JOHN P. BRYAN.