Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-08-20
THE SUGAR CROP OF l859-'60.

The gatherings yesterday on Caron
delet street were few and far between.-
They were as numerous a. could be ex
pected at this season Of the year, with
the pllvius disposition Of the weather
There was a little talk about cotton, the
prospects for a good yield and so on
Regarding sugar, the talk is. that the
present prospects are highly f1attering,
With the same season, Or rather the
same kind of weather from this time till
November that We had las, year. n crop
Of 100000 hogsheads is confidently ex>
pected. We agre6 in The expectations,
and with a very late season 10000
hogsheads may be expected We desire
all ,hese-the gimlet rangers, buyers for
a rise, Bears and Bulls or Bulls and
Bears-to understand we base oar 6g-
ures on alnorpherical and"meteroIogica|
changes of Ia>t year. We made an es-
innate, which we talked Of bout a year
ago, of 100000 hogshea4s. Tue crop
proved to BE- or turned up at $4,000
~hogsheads. The talk is, that the grow
ing cane al about. with, perhaps, an oc-
casioua| exception, looks splendid. We
hope the present 1attering prospects
may be realized Crescent.
The New Orleans Crescent has a lu-
minous 'Change-writer who seems to
pride himself greatly upon his p%rophesy-
ing cumen Having, according to his
W Stationery, made a al guess Of
the sugar crop Of last year, he needs
must try again at this long time ahead,
and gives US the probable figures Of the
crop Of the ensuing season. Marvellous
pe'spicuity! When it is taken into con-
sideration that the crop Of this year is at
least six weeks behind time, the losses
by heavy rains in the early part Of the
season, losses BY crevasses, the chances
Of further losses before the can is fairly
and ground up, We cannot but
look upon the Change writer as { ne en-
with extraordinary foresight. At
all events he is superior to most c%aIcula-
upon the same subject. For one,
have no disposition to quarrel with
The Change writer Of the Crescent, but
We must look upon his prediction with
an i%ncredulous eye, and would re-
.'pectful'y solicit a showing Of tho basis
rom which be draws such astounding
conclusions. Taxing our own parish as
| criterion and we think we have some
claim to being a sugar-producing parish
we will PROFESSIONALLY fall short Of
asst years crop from natural causes. We
last year 2l,5l5 hogsheads, which,
y the way was the largest we ever
made. and we would be well coming up
0 figures if we make this year fifteen
thousand, exclusive, however, Of The loss
y the Lobdell crevasse If about twenty
i've hundred hogsheads. Our crop looks
veil and promise well, as a general
hing, and if nothing occurs to set them
'ack from this time until ground up, our
will realize a fine yield. As it
we do not complain, 10 do we hear
t any Sc ious complaints; but We have
een many far more prosperous seasons
han tile one now ahead Of US. In these
ono us'ons, as regards the crop of our
ar'sb, we are indebted to the experience
many Of our most experienced plan
whom we know to be per-
'ctly competent to judge in such mat :
RS. This much for II parish. Now
is. notorious that the crops Of the ;
Lher parishes are pretty much in the
condition as ours, and if reports .
'eak truth, in many parishes they are F.,
'uch worse. Average now the losses I
= crevasses, and other sources, together |
it'll: the tardy season, and it seems to y
the 'Cbange-writer must have drawn y
rgely upon his imagination for his * q
aordinary. figures. '
A LUCKY W1NDFALL.- young man, S