Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
STATE SUGAR SCHOOL
Under Way in Louisiana, With a Full
Corps of Professors
EXPERTS TURNED OUT ON DEMAND,
To Oversee Cane Culture and the Making Of
the Sweet Stuff
BIG PAY ATTACHED TO THE BUSINESS
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13.-Under the
auspices of the State and the Louisiana
Agricultural and Scientific Association, a
sugar school has been established in this
city, and will go into operation here next
month, for the purpose of educating all
who desire to take the course in the culture
of cane and the manufacture of sugar from
it. The school is equipped with corps of
five professors of sugar agriculture, sugar
chemistry, analytical chemistry, sugar
mechanics, and sugar-making respectively.
1t has a plantation attached, with small
sugar house on it, but one thoroughly
equipped with the latest and most improved
machinery; q library containing all the
books and journals on sugar, and everything
necessary to teach this industry.
The course will be one of two years, at
the end of which time the student will be
turned out thorough sugar-maker: chem
ist prepared to carry on sugar plantation in
the most scientific manner. There is, and
always has been, a demand for this. class of
experts, for the supply is far too small.
A PROFITABLE BUSINESS.
The pay is very good, for skilled sugar.
maker can readily command between $500
and 81, 900 month. The planters compete
for the better ones, and some of them even
receive a percentage on the crop raised, on
the theory that this will encourage them to
greater efforts, for how much sugar ten tons
of cane will produce and what quality of
sugar is made from it depend upon the
sugar maker who has charge of the planta-
tion.
The necessity of having skilled man in
charge of the business is now greater than
eeye;, since the bonus paid under the Nc
sugar falls below the go per cent
saccharine limit, and will under the
law receive no no o bonus wi whatever
facture and turns out a higher grade arti-
Gle. A difference of l per cent in the
amount of saccharine In the sugar makes
difference of $50, 900 in bonus to the planter
whose place produces 100000 pounds.
INCREASING THE INDUSTRY
It is believed that this will cause the
sugar-niakers to be more in demand than
ever, and there are not enough to go around
now as it Is. Moreover, there will be large
increase in the industry and in the number
of sugar houses in operation, it is said, in the
next few years, in consequence Of the stimulus
given to it by the Mckinley bill. The sugar
industry as now conducted requires ex-
perienced men, skilled not in agriculture
alone, like the old style Overseers, but with
a thorough knowledge of analytical chem
istry and mechanics in the various branches,
and who keep abreast of the times and all
the latest discoveries and inventions
The Louisiana Agricultural and Scientific
Association, recognizing the necessity of
such experts, and knowing that they are to
be obtained in no other way, as there is no
institution in the United States where they
can get the specific instruction they need,
has aided in establishing this sugar
school here, believing that the large pay
guaranteed to sugar experts will assure
GOOD attendance. The school is of some in
terest outside of Louisiana, for it promises
to be the principal factor in enabling that
State to largely increase its production of
sugar and supply the demand of the country.
Montana Democratic Clubs.
GREAT FALLS, Mont, Sept. 13.-J. E. Col