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HOME AND FARM.
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St. Louis Republican.


planter class with a large popu-
lation of small farmers, and di-
vide the business into cane
growing and sugar manufacture.
The coming new system is cali
ed the central sugar-house sys-
TEN, because it substitutes for a
sugar-house on every large plan
tation a large and thoroughly
equipped central sugar-house,
where all the cane raised in the
neighborhood is to be brought
for manufacture. Instead OF
planters who are cane-growers
and sugar-makers also, and who
own plantations of 1000 and
1900 acres, there will be a pop
ulation of small farmers owning
5o-to 100 acres each, limiting
their operations TO cane-raising;
and there viii be also establish
ments where the cane crop is
brought and manufactured into
saccharine by the most econom-
ical and thorough process. The
New Orleans Picayune states
that small white farmers have
captured nearly all the country
from Cypremort Prairie to New
Iberia, along the south bank of
the Tecke and on the railroad,
a distance OF II to IS miles, not
less than 60 square miles, and
white men viii cultivate these
lands henceforth and forever
Il has already been stated that
more than 500 white farmers
and families cover and own
mostof these lands, and are in
a fair way to own more of
them" The same paper states
that "tlle central sugar-house,
the vacuum pan and small white
fagsssrs are fast taking the place
D The old plantation system
with its broad acres, its gang of
black laborers, and its open-ket-
tie sugar" The planters them
selves recognize what is COM
ing, and are preparing for it.
They are discussing the propri-
ely Of selling parts of their vast
estates to industrious white fam
lies in parcels of thirty to fifty
acres each.
The advantages OF the new
system are demonstrate. The
n. o. zTMes says: Gas to the
ability Of white men to endure
field labor in this climate, that
is a fact so abundantly proved
and so long established as to be
scarcely worth discussing. 1t
IS not at ali wonderful, SO far as
concerns sugar, anyhow, since
upon d well-handled place in
St Mary, field work ought to
be over before the first of July,
but it is notorious that white
men do most of the farming in
the prairies west of Iberia,
where the seasons are much
warmer than upon the Teche.
The profits of cane-raising alone
must eventually attract the
small farmers whom the new
system demands. The lands in
St. Mary, it is said, can be re-
lied on to yield twenty-five tons
of cane per acre. This is sala-
bic in the neighborhood for 81
a ton, or 500 per acre-which
is three times the money pro-
duct of wheat lands in the
West. This twenty-five tons of
cane when ground and manu-
featured viii give one and a half
of sugar, worth 6 IL
cents a pound, and SO gallons
of molasses worth 80 cents a
gallon-making Sal as the man
ufacturer's share. Under the
old system the planter tries to
secure this Sal by manufacture
ing his own cane; but the result
is bad farming and bad manu-
featuring, which dissipate all
the profits, and leave most of
the planters in debt at the end
Of the year. The New Orleans
Times says: 1--WE believe, in
fact, that almost any planter
who has looked into the CUES
lion inteiligently viii indorse
our proposition that the same
-ands which now produce IS
tons of cane to the acre would,
f the planter were relieved of
sugar-making, and could devote
his whole time to the farm,
make 20 tons as readily as they
now make IS. The difference
IN favor of the central mill sys-
TEN would be nearly 90 per
cent. in the net profit, and would
make sugar culture the best
paying agricultural pursuit in
he world"