St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-08-06
PROFITS OF TENANTS CULTIyATING,
SMALL TRACTS. OF LAND.
NO OTHER INDUSTRY THAT PRESENTS
SUCH PROMISE OF GOOD RE-
TURNS FOR LABOR.

ELN L
SUCH PROMISE OF GOOD RE-
TURNS FOR LABOR.
10 the Editor of the New Orleans Democrat
Heretofore promised to endeavor tc
SHOW how the existing primitive system
OF open kettles in the manufactures OF
sugar can be so adapted as with small
comparative outlay to reap the chief
benefits of modern improvements and
to meet the competition OF the greater
yield and better quality turned out by
establishments possessing these i'm
provements and incidentally to meet
the competition in the markets of the
world resulting from the increasing
beet root sugar production in Europe.
SOME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.
A crop of cane yielding 400 hoosheads
sugar under the open kettle svstem
with a single set of rollers, assuming
the extraction of juice to be so ner cani
of the weight of the cane, would Weld
with a tirst-class mill, with a donhle
set OF rollers extracting 20 to Is ner
cent (average "a per cent? OF weight Of
the cane, 500 hogsheads, an increa sod
yield of 1872 hogsheads, or 4S Der cent.
and from the -molasses, assuming ~
gallons to tho hogshead and 4 nonnis
seconds sugar to the gallon, there
would be 1870 hogsheads of seconds
sugar. That the average out turn of
juice is not over so per cent of the
weight OF the cane is as generally ad-
mitted as lamented and complained of.
Not long ago Mr.. E. 7. Gennert. in an
address before the Sugar Planters AS
ISOLATION, stated that so per cent of the
juice was thrown away in the baeasse:
80 per cent OF the juice only extracted
would be about 43 percent Of the weight
OF the cane, as there is about 1G per
cent of woody fibre, salt and other
solids, not sugar in the cane. Mr..
Brangier in 1877 gave the figures on a
crop OF $40 acres, which weighed ID
36S,33S pounds cane, and gave in iuice
S,021, 1904 pounds, and in masse -cuite
(sugar and molasses) 1,190,9S7 pounds.
There was in the cane 1881 ,9O5 pounds
Of juice which should have made 2.19S.-
355 pounds masse-cuite, a loss of 1907 |
1858 pounds or over 40 per cent The
sugar made in vacuum pans will, CEN
trifugal is worth in the market now.
and generally is worth, % cents per
pound more than the average of omen
kettle sugar, or % cents per hogshead.
and the molasses or reboiling in yacuo
yields about four pounds per gallon of |
second sugar. Granulation can be oh
tanned IN vacuum pans from immatured
or frosted cane that is entirely refrac-
tory to any attempt at crystalization in
open kettles.
crop then of cane yielding 400 hogs
heads i'll open kettles with single
~ roilers ses az &C. or 4eo 600 pounds at S24 900
10000 gallons molasses at SOC ......-.... 1900
Tho GOWN ,,,o,,4,.-- , $4,000
taken through repressure with a
douDeset OF rollers reduced in yacuo
yields $4,000 pounds, which sells at
l2o hoSsheads seconds, at &c sa 100
10000 gallons mOlaSSeS, less 10000 ga}lons ~
made INTO secOnds-20,000 gallons at
2oc ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4.O0O
o,. ,.,,;4.o., ,,e. s62,720
hoSsheads additional. .-.......... 5000
IN +,n ,,no :. . j., -. .s;;aa;;fis 55
ers' Association Of last July are speci-
lcatlons OF results Of the trial of several
nils Welding the greatest per cent of
ulGe 10 the ton OF cane. The highest !
,lelds still lose 10 to 10 per cent Of the
:laimed that the diffusion process ar 70 s
racts % per cent of the Juice. RI Il
that combination of pressure c
aturation of the bagasse and thair t
will ha +h- >NsA1 ! :
dopted as the best.
Why THE IMPROVED SYSTEM IS NOT
UNIVERSALLY ADOPTED.
Well, the contrast as above formula
ed, between the two systems, the i'm
rOved system as we even now see II =,
ractice, and the open kettle system ;s
imply astounding. The greater nrot,i :.
ttendlng the improved system will nav
Or vacuum pans and all the adinncts :,
vice over in a single crop.
If the open kettles and single mills
an live, the profits on the imnroyed
ystem must be simply huge. VIM
len, with this extraordinary ADVANTAGE A
ttached to the improved system, is if Il
OF universally adopted +? For several
,asons; emery, want OF capital. Few
lanters are ao1e unalded to meet the &,
expenses Of cnltivating and manufacD =
lringa crop, and to these SO s;tnatod az" ~,
1ditional $4,000 for vacuum nan oo nu
ifugals, additional rollers. etc ETC. ; ;s = =
,rious thing. If had from a comnis :"
on merchant, and there should folInv
bad season, an overflow, an early in
eeze, or continuous rains during bar, q
est. ruin would be the probable ra m" tfe
the present financial condition of IN IN
ouisiana: A certain result would be 70
Ortitications of all sorts followinp 81 :.
shadow to which the tortures of -
antalus of the heather fable were
ight. Another reason-"vis inertia ,
as much law in the moral and in A
llectual world as in the material 70,
'hn Hunter said that no physician If DC
s day over 40 years of age, believed in pa
e then promulgated theory of the -
rculatiol of the blood. So with manp
the owners of gar-houses. Thay
We been SO long looking on the .one1 I
title system as the most perfect known ing ing
them that they will not make the he,
Eellectual effort to INVESTIGATE. tho in
vantages of any other, or have not o'c
nfidence in themselves to try anp fol
her, Moreover, and unfortunately j
ere are more individuals of the lass -
mig sugar and cotton estates who
q stan, Virgil or parse the Greek hex.
lepr than can guide pillow or run an n A
gl1e, or direct any work calling for t 20,
ovIedge in physical Chemical or and ai
aat the logic of facts is GIVING a mn fur
ntam 20 progress that will disDlace T
Wis inertia by a moving force. The IN
on winch the Developments of The
ar industry OF the State offers at q
sent and IN full view the most nrom Nv ~
with least outlay, is in adopting the -
ulslte ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pans. DIS
bile mills, etc.-upon the open ket,
now in use on two-thirds of the Or,
ar plantations. Vacuum pans, 5dou- nv
rollers. new boilers and all adiuncts
/, la of& bin 0nn