The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-04-14
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White Labor and the Central Srqay
sak Factories.

The Planters in this section are
awakened out of. the old Ruts and
have adopted the new system of
Central Houses, where white labor
c%ultivates most of the land, and
with great success.
There are three large plantations
now working under the new system.
The "Uncle Peter'' owned by j. G.
Rousseau s. Bros. Selby and Mat
thews place owned by Chas. Mat
thews and the Golden Rancho own
ed by Gheen & Bro.
There are about forty white fami
lies (mostly creoles) on each planta
ton. The tenant furnishes his own
team, plows and provisions, and
the planter furnishes the tenant
with land and a comfortable dwell
ling located on the land he is. cult
waiting gives him seed cane and am
pie corn land to make corn does
the ditchiug, fencing and bridging
for him. :
The teuant plants the cane, cul
~tivates it, aud at the proper time,
cuts and hauls it to tn. mill, receiv
ing SO much per ton for the cane de
livered at the mill.
On the Golden Rancho planta
ton the average yield in 1882 was
thirty tons to the acre, while some
Of the land yielded as high as thir
ty seven tons to the acre. With
the assistance of one man and three
mules, one Of the tenants realized
Seventeen Hundred Dollars for his
crop Of cane, corn aud potatoes, be
sides retaining corn sufficient to do
him the coming season. This does
not include butter, chickens, eggs
and other articles sold which was
almost sufficient to keep up. the la
BILE: another tenant with two mules
and "a horse and one hired man
only part of the time], realized
from his crop of cane and potatoes
Sixteen Hundred Dollars, making
more than enough corn to do him
for the coming season.
Under the ley system each ten
ant commences to haul cane at the
same time and by the time the crop
is taken off they are all through
under the old system III. g." grind
ing for half, the tenant that grinds
first does not realize the benefits of
a large yield, while the one vino is
so unfortunate as to grind last may
perhaps lose part, if not all, of his
crop by frost.
It is the opinion of many that
ere long a large majority OF the
plantations will be worked under
the new system as it has gwen
general satisfaction. >.
l am surprised that so little eft
fort has been made to induce white
labor to einigrate to a State where
nearly One Hundred Dollars can be
made out of planting, cultivating 3,
andshauling IL acre Of cane to the
mill:
/ The owner of most productive
Farm in Il Western state, for which
he probably paid II hundred to
one hundred and fifty dollars per
acre, thinks, he is realizing big
money out of it, if its product viii
yield him sixty dollars per acre.
Here a poor man with industry,
three mules, a cart, plows, and
funds to run him part. OF the season,
(the planter will advance him tile
other part, is all the capital that
is required to make a crop of caue
game and fish I abundant and
with a good garden it costs but lit
tie to live. :.
There is no healthier country In
the United States. and strange and
nevertheless true, the oldest inhabi
tants say that a case of yellow fever
is unknown iii this locality.
ROZEL.