St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

tudt petuS employed as clerk III
good store few years ago, he gave uL
the position to the request and sorrow
OF his employer, because he S. des-
paired of being able to improve his
writing sufficiently to keep the books
He employs some Of his leisure hours
ID reading, and has found out by read
ing the advantages of thorough culture
and fertilizing and though a simple la
borer, he buys every year few tons of
cotton seed, and hauls up all the stable
manure he can get from the town sta
bEes to fertilize his grounds and un-
! doubtedly much of his success is due to
| this progressive plan.
| There is much complaint about the
unreiiability of labor T think simple
| way to make it reliable is to make it in
| teliigent
Our present school system as now
carried out interferes with rather than
| promotes education and destroys private
schools, when they could be advan-
tageously established otherwise. To
resume as 1 AN Ve1y lazy, and it will
save me a good deal of brain work.
though If | had time I would rather
write out something else.-I will quote
from communication in the Home and
Farm OF February 10th, 1889:
Il am not we'll posted on the cost of
machinery, but after consultation with
parties who presume to know, we have
concluded that a mill of the capacity Of
from eight to twelve hogsheads day
could be put up in running order for
from $4,000 to $4,000. We will take as
basis of our calculation, one of the
capacity of twelve hogsheads and base
It's daily operations on nine hogsheads.
we have within an area of about four
by sixteen miles, several localities
where such mills could be advanta-
geOusly erected, the population being
large enough and willing to cultivate in
each locality cane in preference to any
other as money crop, enough to make
from two hundred to six hundred hogs
heads annually. They are disposed to
cultivate the cane on their own land and
deliverlt at the mill and give one third
proceeds as toll for grinding.
shall base my calculation on 500 hogs
heads which is in no way an extrava-
CANT estimate for some localities annu-
ally. One-third of 500 are 1865 hogsheads
or 100000 pounds at sets per pound,
would give $12, ,450, 6,640 gallons m0Ias-
ses at 25cts per gallon. $1660, making a
total rough toll of $14,110. After con-
sultlng with parties posted on such
matters; we have concluded that the
expenses of running such mill per day
OF ID hours would not exceed $75. 1t !
wOnld require not quite fifty six days to |
make 500 hogsheads, making the total
expenses $4,000 and the net earning
5000.
Beside the sugar-mill, several other
combinations, could be established in !
CONNECTION, such as grist-mill, saw mill, |
cotton gin, moss gin, cotton seed oil |
mill and number of Others which /
might suggest themselves to enter
prise.'
| will not dwell upon the combina-
tlons which can be connected to it, it is |
plain that the sugar mill Of itself in the |
of 800 hogsheads of would
return clear profit Of over IS per cent
0n capital invested.
tbs d well-knONn fact that there are
of capital in this country, in
vested, aid seeking investment in Uni
ed States Government per cent bonds
w. II. Vanderbilt alone having over
10 millions of dollars invested at that
rate. What | mean by developing the
sugar industry OF the State is to proper
y represent the advantages of sugar
of the State and induce
1y all consistent means some of these
capitalists to invest some of their mo-
ley in the erection of sugar mills and
actOries SO the farmers may have his
,ane manufactured into sugar with the
AGILITY he gets his cotton ginned now.
Until lately, considered our sugar
ane resource confined to those locali- {
les at proximity TO timber only, but [ |
AVE discovered that coal can answer
or all the purposes of manufacturing
ugar; and with our present railroad
II tI,r/ ~, i
ABILITIES can be Increased, make it pos
IDLE to develop the sugar industry in !
ny section OF Southwestern Louisiana,
outh of Alexandria,
The most casual observer can not !
eny that this exclusive cotton raising
usiness is driving many farmers, pro-
ucers and others to bankruptcy and !
The following conversation fully IL /.
lstrates the effect on neighboring l
roperty of central sugar mills: "A :
armer at proximity to one in the parish !
Iberia made the remark in the pres !
nee of a few others, that he had refus-
d one hundred dollars per acre for !!
Dme of his land one of his hearers I
sked him, in way implying he found !
foolish to refuse such price for land, =
Thy he had not sold it. "Well yes, the
lrmer answered, it is rather foolish to
efuse that price when can get so !
luch land for nothing almost. But
fter all, do not think it SO very fool
ID, when I remember that raise sugar q
ane for hundred dollars per acre, or
early every year, selling by the ton, on. :
le same land.n In those localities re- :
lote from sugar mills, land has no {
Iore valuein Iberia than they have in
t. Landry.
/ know that many of our people have
,rious objections TO immigration, but | :
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