Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-12-13
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also one Of Mr.. Il. Garden, superlnten-
dent of the East India Company's su-
gar farm at Mlrzapore Cuina state that
this cane resiss the attacks Of the white
ant and jacket, so destructive to the cane
fields OF India, and add that it yields
about double the produce Of the com
mon Bengal cane. The experience o.
both these gentlemen was acquired in
tropical country, and therefore has no
bearing upon the liability Of the cane to
injury by frosts. The following remarks
! in relation to it, are said to be from the
pen Of an experienced sugar planter,
whose experiments with Chinese cane
were conducted in India.
In its nature, It is extremely hard and
prolific; for during the last hot season
it remained uninj lred in every respect,
whilst the others were all either burnt up,
or eaten out Of the ground by the white
ants. As the rains came on the China
cane sprang up wonderfully, many roots
having no less than thirty shoots; which
b. September, had become fine canes,
about twelve feet in height, three inches
in circumference and with joits from six
to eight inches apart. These were cut
in October, and planted out; yet al
though we had tolerably severe winter,
the cold appeared to have little or no ef-
feet in checking their groth; whereas
native canes planted at the same time.
were entirely kept back.
Another gentleman in Bengal, says:
AS YOU advised, ] wrote to the Socie-
tv for five hundred canes, which arrived
quite fresh. | then cut them up, allow.
ing one joint to each piece. and planting
them III lines four feet assunder each
way, delivered them up to the same
chances as my Otaheite and native canes
were exposed to, The result has been
beyond my utmost hopes; and, too, this,
after a season of unusual severity, which
has grievously affected my native cane;
and as to my Otaheite, what with the
not winds, the white ants, the long con-
tinued wet weather, and the detestable
jackets, I saved but very few whilst
nothing seemed to affect or injure the
China cane.
What might be deemed a tolerably
severe winter in India, would not prob
ably be entitled to the same clsssitica-
lion in New Jersey; and the fact stated
in the beginning Of this article that the
summer grown canes in that State bad
produced several "gallons of holasses,"
does not prove at all that the same cane
would have produced sugar. 1t is one
of the effects Of an unusaly cold season
upon sugar cane that its yield will make
moasses but will not produce crystalza-
bic sugar. This result will be attained,
we believe, if an effort is made to crys-
talze the juice Of the short summer
grown canes Of New jersey.
But there is another difficulty in the
way of sugar producing at the North,
which the Northern journals do not
seem to take into account, when they
calculate that sugar can be raised there.
The process Of sugar~making is dual in
it's form and character. to an extent that
is not found in any other Of the great
industrial interests In its form it is ag-
ric,l|,ural, comprising all the labors Of
planting, cul,ivatiug and harvesting the
cane: its second form is one Of high
mechanical aud scientific a,tainments,
and comprises all the Iabors OF express
ING the juice from the cane, its pur'fica-
ton from feculent an! other matter. and
the crystaliza:ion and purgation Of the
sugar by some of the INCEST and most
exact chemical operations that are known
to the arts.
1t is one of the requisites Of the man
ufac,urer that the scientific processes
shall be carried on at the moment and
On the spot Of harvesting. The improve
ments that have been introduced Of late
years in the scientific processes render
the cost Of the requisite machinery for
the purpose Of peculiar feature IN the
presentsystem Of sugar culture. A com
p|ete Derasne apparatus, and we believe
of several other systems, cost at least, it
not more. than one hundred thousand
dollars. This great expenditure for the
necessary machinery requires a greater
breadth ofland in cane, greater amount
Of capital, and much larger number
Of merely laboring hands for the profit.
able production Of sugar, than would
seem to be attainable under the minute
division of land, and numerous small
proprietorships, existing in the social
organization Of the Northern commun'-
ties.
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