New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-04

We give the following brief extracts from our
notes 10 chow the production per acre aud per hand
upon several other plantations, 20 NJ 10 make ia''
average:
VIM poM n. mite, above Nsw.Oheansl % slaves, IS de
hands $40 afpent- 25 rolled mao a23 bogbeads
o. g,r and ~ ~ q gsl~us .! Iuoit'."s
MONS WAY - dawes Is field h.nls $50 srprp's OF cane
80 rolled made hog heads Of sugar and 200 barrels oil NO
Col Manning on on. Of his pisces rolled IS srss and mad
40 hogsh.sds
Tue following plantations are On Bayou Ii
Fou che:
Geu Mrtn-y1 field hands. rolled 2'6 ~Tens and mso'
J ". Trcker-Is ,laves 10 field hands, rolled $50 upens
made 40 hoghssds OF singer and % 900 gallons Of mo
George ID. Dsvs-RoTcd $50 Mpen's. and made So hogs
hosi. Of sugar which wss9 boghsed 20 the hand ou' eA
poets g. average ~ , ,oo -,
james TuelsriS slaves 70 field hands rolled c srpens'
McCulsm.i2 slaves. "A field hands. rolled 100 srper g.
m.e 5J hoghesds year. and ~ ape,- quo n'us
vsiou that the crop of Loulians averages PER snnn
about bogstesd. Yer land ho"se to make o =
head. Day $50 has steam engine OF lncb cy IN.
~ FEET driving three iron ro'rs iee long sud
inehe, in diameter Four ketles 81 - to 20 inehrs
ecro. are boil oil the juice hat the engine
snd mill make. Plantation expense. 20 last year o.,
od be.d the sugar crop $1,000 worth Of lumber and 800
| cords of wood At ~ . cord. -.
! J. Tanner on Tenehonre--60 field hands rolled 800
acres and made 40 hog-ness one yea and 5p he next
Doctor B.ay--R 81 hcd hands 800 apent, Ia cane
rolled 40 AID made 20 hosshads Som" land yielded 800
pouni- and some 80 pound, Of sugar per sfpen $500,
Mr. slaves 20 reid hand. rolled $50 srpents ara
mad. 1874 hid, year. 80 sIpents made lJ hhds
| 10 y asss-, s. gallons to tho hogshrad
The other plantations We viii take along the Mis-
81 sipp above Bayou la Fourche; not tie largest,
but such as show tho fhIest average production OF
the sugar lands Of the State:
U.pry MeCs-20 ssye. leo field hands 6J1 arpents o'
30 rolled usde LOIS nhd- OF sugar md the u'u gus
y os,es when does not var ntch IT. m an average 81
al. ,llou- bog isfd %
r. Toomp.or sl miles shove New. Orleans) 100 ,sve-,
100 held nsnd mide, one year 90 ard neh' yea" Wv n''
noeor sorc-e6 .Iave. 50 field hands. rolled go agen'
and mad. ll hhd. and year omth same number OF
,. mad. 81 hog.n, w, ana 80 gallons o classes tn the
hog.nri. His av'rng- IA ioruer yrif- rom so"n ~ ~
land has been $50 hossne'd The average Sira o.
pai1 iicl.y-57 sls,es field hands 100 arPnis rolled
ide go hos.lead. ard at year - shn' q'ty io" 0
arpen, beside making more corn than vas n'cdcd ~
Robert IN hs win % hands ard II extra IA The foDlnR
.esson ule 30 hos.h,.ds nom 200 Access QUE ,eai JIG
smother, and alc another
The next two places are below Baton Rouge, on
that side # the river ~ first being one OF the eldest
American plantations in the State:
cot Uiebey-ao slaves Is field hands $40 arents made
"a hhd. ye1 $50 srpens mad only binds ho la
.us - ysss ald cotton l'yes before on the ''e
r. Conr.d 40 slave. 20 field hand. 3'5 arpen, usde
So hhls me year before made 40 and ost 100 hhd, by
bF,s k,us the Mil
Tie new Land on this place averages 30 bushels of
In all ,hcse Statements, where the quantity Of
nolh,s-s il not gwen il may be estimated at sixty
10 eighty gallons 10 the hogshead. In one We find
yield Of uolAs,e, siiil greater Judge CHM, above
Bllon Rouge, made Jg5 hogsheads Of sugar, and had
l., 900 measured gallons and o. gallons cal ua'ed
by weight "a, - 10 per gallon, which would over
run two or three gallons per barrel. This cacnls-
ton gives ~ gallons of mol.sses 10 each hogs
head Of -ugaI.
Another place east Of Baton Rouge, and away
from The river l0o aIpens Of cane gave 100 hhdr OF
-near, and 1 900 gallons OF molasres which Is near
ly IS gallons 10 the hogshesd.
Tie average yield Of sugar TO ea'h fid-hm'd en-
ployed upon IL. above plantation, arpears 10 be
about six and three-fourts logsheads, and nt the
estimate Of 20 gallons Per nog-head i'2l gallons Of
nolss~, per head. Counting the ,ugar al &c. y ib,
6 80 n, 1T &C.. il t3F 10, and molas-es at lsc per
gallon. 40, gallons. So %, making a total cash
value Of ,he products per band si22 81 per annum.