, 1890-07-05

their work and earnestly call upon. pro
prietors, Attorneys and others interested
in Sugar. growing . support the fund more
literally i'll order tDat The sphere OF its use
fitness may be extended And we can
only say we hope this call may meet with
the response it deserves.
The Committee evidently are not dis
posed to rest content with mere laboratory
tests only, and a considerable portion of
their report r~ecOunts their endeavOurs to
secure the practical trial Of cane mannres
AT some experimental station in the high,
lands OF the Island, 50 as to allow of com
l~ariSon OF results with those obtained at
Dodds. Their efforts have SO tar failed from
one cause or another, and the matter drop
ped. But it is just here we desire to pick
1t up a9aIq. The Committee very laudably
desires that the Agricultural Society should
have a station of its own and should rent a
piece of land from some estate for this, pur-
pose. But from all we have learned of The
position of the Society aud the scant sup
port it receives from those it most benefits,
we have grave doubts whether it could
undertake to do this on anything like Il
sufficiently large scale. We have already
In some previous issues adyerted to this
subject and expressed our decided opinion
that, III the interest of the whole cOmmuui-
~ UiLo 10 - utdUlSl tudU llt LACGub|NO
should take in hand. We should rejoice to
see the Society in u position 10 carry out its
" ideas and its own experiments, but we
need something more than this. We re.
qUIre that an estate of at least respectable
slze,-and the more respectable the better,
well equipped with crushing machinery,
should be obtained in "A central part of the
island, and worked as an experimental and
Botanical station under the auspices of the
Government. Here on a sufficiently large
scale TO be e0nYIUciu" experiments should
be carried out and recorded in the manur-
ing Of the Bourbon and Of those other yarl-
cites OF cane that have lately lone SO We
at Dodds. Here, later on, and rs soon az
we are thoroughly awakened 10 the gravity
of the issues at stake, our island Professor
Of Chemistry and the Superintendent OF
the station might give instructions in the
method of scientific agricultural experiment.
We have been more than once assured by
Professor Harrison that the laboratory
analysis of soils will not give the trust
worthy results to be obtained by intelli-
gent planters noting accurately the heha-
viour of their fields under carefully select
I'd manuTeS, and we have heard him de
clare that we should not rest content till
every planter in the island should be able
to say to the manure manufacturer 81
need such a manure with such quantities
of this and that for so many fields and
such a manure for others. We require in
fact, that our planters should be properly
educated for the important posts they gill.
The Germans .~ecoguiSed this need ard they
dread most the application Of scientific
methods to the production Of sugar from
the cane. We cdiI this ltom one Of our eX-
changes, the Louisiana Planter an,o Sugar
Manufacturer. Ii is headed ''Alarm in the
Beet canp.o
''The strides American i0yenJiveness is
causing the cane sugar industry III L0uiSl-
ana to take are not pleasing 10 the beet
su ar manufacturers OF Europe In re
viewing the work Of the United States
department of Agriculture in that state, the
DeWtScbe Zuckerind@Strie pays particular at
tenlion to the Chemical processes iii use. 1t
notes among other things the large yield OF
sugar per ton of cane at calumet and the
adoption of diffusion. The closing words
Of the review show that the rival Industry
of cane begins to see the handwriting on
the wall in the long struggle it has kept up
by means of bOunties and complicated SCI
entific processes a gainSt the natural superb
GRITTY of the cane. sit. cannot be denied
that the department of Agricnlture adheres
mOst induStrIouSly and persistently to its
Object of enlightening the planters OF LOU
siana, and so placing III their hands the
best weapons for opposing foreign produc-
ton. 1t, is not without apprehension for