The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1882-01-28
Tenants.

scW Win QUE Vi tuc MOSt
practical and experienced Plan
ters in tho Parish of Lafourche,
who cultivates Il large plantation,
by tenants aud partly by
hired labor.
Doubts having arisen whether
it paid as we'll to lease land to ten
ants as to work it with labor hi
red under the usual custom, a
close and careful Investigation of
the subject, made from the res
cords OF the plantation, disclosed
the fact that more net profit was
per acre from land leased
to their tenants than FROM that
cultivated by hired labor.
The consequence is that, ins>.
tead of doing away with tenants
more have been placed upon the
plantation.
The rule under which the ten
ants work is about as follows:
The planter furnishes the laud,
attends to the fencing and main
bitches, supplies one half of the
seed cane aud requires two thirds
of the ground to be planted i'll
sugar cane. He also supplies the
tenant a comfortable dwelling
and ga,den spot, and requires the
tenant to cultivate the cane aud
corn properly. If he neglects his
work the right to send laborers
into the field to perform the work
and charge all expenses to the
Tenant Is reserved.
The Tenant furnishes his own
teams and agricultural imple
ments, plants and works the
crop until it is laid By 10 June or
July. ,
TIL. Planter cnts. hapls and
manufactures the sugar cane into
sugar, fol which he receives one
half the sugar and all the molas
ses.
TIE tenant has the other half
of the sugar and all the corn he
raises. and for the five or six
months that his time is not occu
pied in the culture of the growing
crop he can work as a iahorer OF
seek occupation elsewhere.
In 1881 there were on this plan
tation two tenants each Of whom
had about 80 acres of lSusl apiece
Each rolled about 90 acres OF s,l-
gar cane and each crop yielded
about IS hogsheads of sugar.
A little calculation will give
| the results to the Planter and tn,
tenant.
The tenant had "a hhAs Of s.,
gar which weighed net each 1906
pounds.
Sold at seven cents per III
would give $500 per hog ,heal
yielding 100000, as the amoun
of money obtained for his corn
potatoes, hogs, chickens, &c an,
the product of his labor for SOM
five months.
The planter estimates that. f
cut, hanl and manufacture a no.
head of sugar, will cost $4,000
consequently each hogShead tina
he has for his share will cost hin
$4,000.
Now a h~ogsheads each givin;
a net profit OF $24.OO will yiel,
a57G.00, and 60 bbis of molasse
which tie As hhds would prob;
bly, yield would give at so cent
per gallon sl5OO.00 maxim,
100000 as rent for 80 acres
land.
One of those tenants estimate
: that his expresses in making hi
crop was about $4,000 ali told.
Here we find the tenant worl
ing 80 acres deriving an incom
of S150O.O0 net, his corn SC. an
, daily labor for which he is pal,
for one year, whilst the planter O
, tains from. the same land as rent
: a net profit Of over $4,000 pc
acre.
Other tenants on this plant
ton did almost it not quite {
we'll
The tenant system rs the SCI
!, TINEL has been advoca.in;
Judging from the above facts,
no more speculation. 1t may
!. said that this planter has extlat
binary tenants. 1t Is true tn;
he has good men, but when sue
an opening as that is given
farmers, the best workers in til
world will come by hundreds in,
: the sugar country, and fill it u
+. with a population of indnstrion
, intelligent and moral citizen
: School houses and churches wi
be built and a new era will daw
. !. upon southern Louisiana, tn:
= will start her forward in a care,
Z ofprosperity that she has not see
for 10! these many years.
In concluding this article IL
SENTINEL wishes to disabusc Il
minds of some of its conteml
9 raries into an error into whic
some of them, notably the jam
Louisianais, has fallen.
i Whilst We have advocated IL
y idea thai, if tue negro wishes
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