Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-11-17

DIR. LrFhBvkE's TRAlA OF SUGAR KETTLES.
The success of Dr.. Letebvre train Of
f1nted kettles was incontlovertibly estab-
lished last winter by the experiments made
upon Mr.. VaIery Landry's plantation, near
DonaldsonviIle. A few months ago the ne"
style of kettles were set up in Nine 5. \.
Lacoste's plantation, in the parish OF Polnte
Coupee, and we are pleased to learn that the
splendid results obtained by Mr.. Landry
have been surpassed at Nine Lacoste's. The
business manager of the latter. in a letter we
have had an opportunity of perusing, says:
"Dr. Lefebvre's huted sugar kettles lave
worked beautifully. In twenty-six hours,
with poor green cane and very inferior wood.
we succeeded in making fourteen ho.>head>
OF sugar. The kettles were set up by Mir.
o. ". Chase. of Pointe Coupee II may be
well to add, by way OF contrast, that Oh a
neighborirg plantation. under similar c:rcrm-
stances, and with as large a number of ket-
ties as that lt DR.. Lefebvre's, but six hogs
h. ads of sugar were made in tWenty-tour
hours.
Now that experience has incoutroveItib|y
demonstrated the extraordinary advantages
of the f1uted kettles. as well in economizlr9
fuel as the increased rapidity of sugar.
making, we expect to see them adopted by
every intelligent. enterprising planter. DR..
Lefeb"re has already received a number of
orders for the new crop, and is now prepared
to fulfill them. as the Cincinnati Foundry is
in readiness to furnish any amount OF machln-
cry which NAV be required. We have no
doubt whatever that in a few years the old
system of sugar-making will be completely
displaced by DR.. Lefebvre's recent and sim
guIarIy valuable discovery.-N. O, Bee.
We have heard these kettles highly spoken
of, and believe them 10 be what they are
represented therefore our object is not to
disparage what we conceive to be valuable
invention. But there is one fact connected
with the manufacture of these kettles that
possesses a peculiar interest to planters at
the present time, and that is-their being
made in Cincinnati. Now if we are to send
North for everything We want in the way of
machinery, what advantage will we gain by
secession7 If we continue to traffic with
tie North as usual, and the North with us.
We may just as we'll stay where we are.
While recommending DR.. LEFrEvEt's inven-
ton to the favorable consideration Of our
sugar planters, it may be asked, with great
propriefy, why are not those kettles manu-
featured in the South7 Have we no ioun-
dries, no machinIsts, no persons skilled in
the working of iron, that we must send else
where for work that should be done at home?
While there are so many persons in Louisiana
in favor of seeding from the Union-and
amongst them we know many sugar planters
let us rave some good evidence of their
hostility towards the North, by refusing to
purchase any article of use or consumption
manufactured in q free State. Give all en-
couragemen to Southern enterprise, even if
should cost a little more. or the work rot
quite so delicateiy finished. Build up our
tireside friends. and keep our money at home
to enrich those who are with us OF birth. in
teres.. and the ties of kindred. We have the
means. in every sense of the term. to live and
thrive within ourselves, without thrnwiI g a
dim into the hands of those black-heartcd
fanatics who have thrown the frebrand Of
dlscord into a once happy union of States
Let Southern people reflect upon this, and
while we cannot as yet counsel a dissolution
of the Union. let US at once commence upon
the task of learning to live without assi>-
lance from the North.