The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-01-19
The Picayune and Win.
rOWeh Cane.

III ~
mt on it's wisdom cap and deliv-
cred a lecture to Sugar Planters,
on the subject of winrowing Sn-
gar Cane, which, after many
other wise suggestions. recon-
mended them all, for the future
to winrow their cane previous to
the fifteenth of November.
No doubt the sugar planting
interest feel under many Ohllga.
tons to the author of this sug-
gestion coming, as it does, from
such a high source.
But the Sugar planters, are
queer sort of people. They think
that they know as much about
their own business as other folks
do.
How much sugar would have
been made in 1877 if the cane
had all been in wlnrow on Nov.
10Th. Up to this date it was with
the greatest difficulty that plan
ters could make sugar at all,many
of them failing to obtain granu-
%lation, and only 10y boiling juice
that in ordinary years would
make 20 hogsheads, and obtain
ing therefrom 8 to 10 lids. The
cane was too green to make Su-
gar, aud every planter knew,that
if it had been cut down then. it
1t never would have yielded any
thing comparatively speaking, so
there can be no improvement in
can when it is in winrow. Had
the canes been ripe enough to
give a fair yield d large portion
of it would have been manufic-
tured when the freeze came, and
piovident planters would tla~ e
cut down "a portion Of their crop,
but Ii required no extra wisdom,
such as the winter in the Picayuae
exhibits, to discern the facts that
winrowing Sugar cane previous
to Nov, 10, 1877, would be utter
rnin to the crop, and be just cause
to have the ears of the planter
who did it bored for the Simples.
The only time during the last sea
son when the caues yielded with
any approximation to satisfaction
f was Immediately succeeding the
freeze that had caused it to sweet
en- up and give a fair yield.
Now tue farming community
, are grateful tor the tendency to
, aid their interests often exhibited
bv the city writers, many of
whom could not tell "a shovel
, pillow from a washing machine.
I and if they deyotc their colum>
9 to suggestions upon points which
, they ought to understand, aud
r which would DC Of practicable
q utility to the Singer growers tina,
gratitude would be materially
increased. Now let the Rcdyan,
writer give its answers to the fol
. lowing queries:
;. 1. Why is it that New Orleans i.
y the only city in the United State.
that compels the growers of it:
=, principal product, to sell tina
product upon the wharf within q
hours after it is landed?
:, 2. Why il it that when sugar i
put upon the levee lot of spie
. are posted about with gold watch
es in their hands to seize that Su
= gar i'll one inmate after the ..
- hours are ended, and have i
y hauled away into a dark Suga
~ shed, and that at the expense o
tue owner?
3. Why is it that Sugar must b
n sold within "a hours, rain or shin
IS when Pork; Cotton, potatoes an,
corn lie on the warf until j
o pieases the owner or cOnsigne
z, to remove them?
y 4. Why is it that consignees il
New Orleans remove every othe
W product from the levee if it doe
t, not bring satisfactory prices, an
6 retain it in store until it vii
a bring q suitable price, and lore
IF Sugar to sell within a prescrihe'
re limit, although it may be pour
he ring down rain, or the mud s
70 deep that the rep top bootsof til
broker would be soiIed in en-
y deavorlng to reach the warfg
Of 5. Why is it that tue sellers q
n Sugar and MoIasses in New o.
leans do not do rs the sellers ,
the same articles do in other G
" ties,ani hold on to these product
" TOR few days when the market j
= %ruinously Iowa