The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-11
yermiIion sugar Notes.

of late. Cold north wind Tire aud
overcoats), cloudy, dizzling; then
dashes Of warm sonshine (now and
henl sort Of sarcastic hints at the
past summers thereno. Our expec,
tant sugar planters are well pleased
that Hicks cyclone was a myth, and
October dawns cold and dreary, if
you please, but just the weather for
bringing Iuxuriant sugar cane to
the right standpoint for grinding.
Rowing rice threshers are doing
lots of chores 10 Vermilion parish
yields Of pond rice excellent and
field rice only $3.50. The rice birds
and their variety and number are
tenfold-have had a too liberal rice
diet of late, at the expense of u
rice men. Actually, it is a race be,
tween the rice thresher and the rice
birds-a conflict between the swift
birds and the strong threshers.
Next year we are to have a full ca.
pacity rice mill at Perry Bridge, FIVE
miles below Abbeville, and will thus
encourage an increase Of 50 per cent
nor rice in Vermilion parish.
Vermilion sugar cane culture is
lin acreage,-l89O, fully so per
cent. over previous years, and the
tonnage tosugar mills this eason will
be 100 per cent. over previous
years. Indeed, the waste places Of
this parish, sea marsh, ETC., for rice
and invaluable lands for cane, are
being rapidly utilized-redeemed
from idleness for the best agricul.
tural purposes.
Forage crops are very late, the
constant rains down here, sea-marsh
ward, having put back the corn
Harvesting, hay pulling and sorgum
cutting. Stock, so far, have been
fed piecemeal from the field. Fall
ploughing will take place shortly and
Z am told much Of it will be accom-
plished, as 1891 is destined to a big
crop year-deo Volente. Even while
pressing harvesting" has been re.
tarded by the wet weather there is
ample work for IDLE hands to do at
ditching, fence mending, road max
ing, wood hauling or coal storing.
Some few small cane farmers have
started their little merrv.ro'rounds
and singing little open kettle sys-
tens for 'syreau d'batterie." This
will not last long, as these small
cane farmers will sell cane by the
tonic the central sugar systems.
Mr.. James e. Putnam, of Rose
Hill plantation, Bayou Vermilion,
treated your correspondent to a
brisk and interesting drive through
the Prairie Greig sugar cane
stretches-all new cane fields since
the central sugar system has come to
abide there.
Rose Hill central sugar system
has been operating since 1878-ev.
cry year increasing its sugar manu-
featuring capacity until now the
climax improvements are being put
in. A well-built tramway tapping
tho Prairie Greig cane fields will
bring thousands Of tons cane to the
Rose Hill refinery scales. Rose
Hill sugar mill will grind $50 acres
of cane--350 home crop and 500 out
side. Some of the acres will aver.
age thirty FIVE tons; others again
are destined to yield twenty-five
tons.
There will he some 500 900 pounds
of sugar manufactured from outside
syrup" brought in by tank boats.
and the total outcome of sugar, sea-
aon of 1890, will be upward Of
100000 pounds. The number Of
acres of seed cane which will be
saved from this years crop for next
years planting, by both Mfr. Put.
ram and his central sugar sys.
tenn patrons, will double the avail
able crop for the mill in 1891, and
consequently enjoin upon Rose Hill
Q double capacity for sugar manu-,
fcture in years to come.
The days Of cotton 10 Vermilion
are numbered, but the spirit Of
sugar culture, backed by thorough
central sugar systems, has come to
stay.--Louisiana Planter.
PERAMBULAFoR.
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