The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-14
CANE PLANTING.

1t has been thoroughly demonstrated by
repeated experiments in Great Britain that by
aproper selection Of seed grain, the yield per
acre of farm lands is very considerably in
creased. By continuous selection, Major Hal
lett, an English scientific agriculturist, sue
ceeded in four years in increasing the length
of the wheat ear from A. inches to 81 inches;
the number of grains from Al to 1913, and the
number of ears on finest stool from 10 to 80.
On the same plant there will be ears with
different degrees of productive power, and Sc
lection being made of the best ears superior
yigor may be given to plants of the next sea-
son. "The success of those experiments led
Major Hallett to declare that the corn crops
England might be doubled if, by repeated
careful selection, the superiority Of particular
plants were accumulated
Already the Eastern and Middle States of
this country are beginning to face necessity
almost as grea. as that which presses on Eng
land to secure greater crops from their farms,
and greater crops must be obtained, if at all,
by careful study of the conditions precedent
to their growth"
Here in Louisiana we have heard great
many complaints of the supposed degeneracy
of the cane and various theories have been pro-
pounded as to the cause and the remedy of
this unfortunate state of things Mi ght it not
be due, in part at least, to the practice of most
planters in selecting the poorest cane for seed.
We ksoac the opposite practice has been
made with both Indian corn and Tahiti and
Creole cane, and with very great success. It
was done on small scale, to be sure, and
under favorable conditions, but to our mind
it is none the less conclusive. The high price
of lacor makes it imperative on our planters
to spare no effort to increase the yield of their
land, and in sugar planting We think it will
pay better to sacrifice quantity 10 quality.
The Nashville Union and american, refer
ring to the cases of the Memphis merchants
now under bonds for trial before Judge Trigg,
charged with discharging their porters for
voting against them, institutes parallel that
every one Of the readers of the Appeal will
recognize as correct. For instance, it reminds
Gns that in Massachusetts it has for years been
just the thing to vote mill operatives by the
thousand for the Radioal ticket, under threat
of instant discharge We have, indeed, heard
of United States navy yards being guilty Of
the same thing on various and sundry occa-
sions. We do not mention these incidents as
precedents, but merely to show how abomin-
ably sectional and one sided is the administra-
ton of the law under Radical lule.
A Memphis merchant threatens to discharge
. single porter, where the Massachusetts mill
owner threatens his hundreds. The latter
goes unmo!ested, while the former is dra rged
before Federal commissioner and compelled
to give bond for bis appearance on trial In
geniOusly cruel as the enforcement act is, it
does not authorize such outrages, and stupid
or maliciothly partisan Office holders, dressed
IN little brief authority, may yet learn the
fact to their cost. The discharging OF en-
ployees falls exclusively under the State laws
for enforcing contracts. BY no legal sophistry
Can 1t be twisted into a distinction on account
or color. when the charge itself distinc-
ton on account of politics.
1t Radicalism were permitted to go on with
its social levelism, it would soon hunish men
and women for selecting their companions on
the score of intelligence, worth or religious
affinities, and would invade every business
and avocation OF life, all societies, secret or
otherwise, all religious bodies, and compel
associations that not even the most rabid Of
the red republicans or aans culottes of Europe
would tolerate. In their malice the Radicals
have gone beyond right justice and law, and
are now paying the penalty in defeats that are
merely the forerunners Of others yet to come.
Memphis appeal.
a MOI vr1ct ron, L.,