, 1890-11-08

consideration the average output was 1O6
tons per sugar house during Che second
half 178 tons per sugar house.
During the last Ave years, then, wherein
our sugar houses averaged an Ilnual out.
put Of 178 tons of sugar, the French sugar
houses averaged an annual output Of LILO
tons. Can there be better evidence of the
suicidal beut of our minds In perSlstiGg III
these little sugar houses and allowing the
rest of the worll 10 sufpass us ia excel
lence aud economy In sugar work
Just as they are in the tropics so are we
here, labo9ing under the di advantages of
inherited feudaliSm. The lord of the manOr
raises his caue, his own corn, his own
cattle, and his own hogs. He builds his
own carts, and makes his own IlowS, makes
his own sugar hogsheadS and m0lasSes bur-
refs, End manufactures his own caIte crop
into white sugar.
The mar who can do all this and 10 it
we'll. and III successful competition with the
divided lab0r of m0leru industrial or ami
cation, must be a paragon IT ability, and
in fact a rare man and yet half the sugar
of the world is made from tropical zane III
tliis antique way. No wonder tropical
cane sugar has, of recent years, borne such
a decreasing ratio to the total of sugar pro-
duced.
W., however, have no use tor the past
except as its OK perienC0 may guide uS IN
the future, and the most palpabie c0nclu-
sion now bofOre us Is that our sugar manu-
f~aCturcr in our reasonably good sugar
houses is carried OH i'll too small u way t.
be economically successful. The French
beet sugar industry has been tire most
backward in Europe, and yet from 1885 10
1889, inclusive, they made 1,ll9 long tons
Of sugar per annUm for every sugar house
at work, and during the same time we
made but ITS short tons per anlfnm i'll our
Louisiana sugar houses.
Il must be obvious tlsat with such small
outputs we can't afford TO employ cOmpe-
tant cultivatOrS, engineers and chemists,
and without these we can't compete with
the rest OF the world,
Ir Germany there are but about 400
Sugar houses, and their output last year
averaged over 5000 tons each. In those
400 sugar houses there were IN re lhan
10 90 thoroughly educated technical chem
iSta at work during the sugar season.
1t is OF course certain that our people are
not going to jump suddenly out of one syS-
TEN into another and any change with us
must be somewhat gradual aud obviously
necessary.
BY thus surveying what ia done else
where aud noting the conclusions arrived
at elsewhere our own needs become mOie
apparent and we are invOlnhtarily forced
along II the paths Ot progress.
In 1854 Louisiana made los, 69T tons
of sugar in 9O6 sugar houses, each averaG-
ing 1T tons output. In 1890, six years
later, Louisiana will probably double the
crop of 1884, and do this in far fewer sugar
houses aud probably reach AN average out
put Of 800 tons per sugar house.
There eCN probably be no more acres o.
cane qr0And IN 1890 than In 1884, and al
, this enormous increase in six years comes
from excellence in culture and manufacture
and not from expansion of the culture.
The time has now come for the expan-
sion of the culture. The accumulated data
inspires confidence and it becomes evident
that good mill houses can get 100 pounds
of sugar per ton Of good cane and that
diffusion houses can get 200 pounds. a
seemingly natural AMI equitable division
of values, where the rent or drainage OIL
the land is not involved. is for the planter
to raise came and deliver to the factory ald
receive in pay half the sugar made, the
factory retaining half as it share.
From this point of view, good mill houses
could afford to give eighty pounds Of sugar
ner ton of cane ADD diffusion houses l0t
pounds.
AS We have stated herein, the economic
running of any factory can now be insured
ouly by developing il Up to its highest
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