St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-03-07
Sugar CULTURE IN THE
uPLANDS OF LOUISIANA.


UPLAND6 OF LOUISIANA.
We extract Tie following from aa
article By o. B. Sansum, in the
Sugar Bowl;
"But there are other lands In
Louisiana, heretofore for nothing
esteemed-the uplands. These viii
produce, aud are nov producing,
sugar prohtably. These uplande
Of Louisiana need no artificial
drainage, because they are gently
undulating, and excessive rains run
Oh readily. These uplands are .
black loan upon . clay sub-soii.
They are precisely like the uplands
Of the West Indies. A good pair
Of mules will pillow any two acres OF
these lands per day.
The exact amount OF money re-
quired to prepare, plant and cult
waite sugar cane in these pine lands
for ten acres is as follows:
One plowman and two mules, two
acres per day, s.; cross blowing
the same, IS; narrowing the same,
two and one-half days, q so;
opening burrows for seed, rows six
feet apart, running the pillow twice
In each furrOw, two and one-haif
days, q 50; cutting, loading, cart
ing and putting seed cane in the
burrows, (say two and one-half
acres to plant ten acres,) - fol-
lows: Fifteen cutters, i've leaders
and three carriers, $2S; dropping
cane in burrows, ten boys 1t 50 cts-
each, one day. IS; covering the
same, two burrows en- each row. i've
days, g.; blowing out middles and
barring on in the spring, i've days.
IS; distributing fertilizer with ms
chine, sw0 and one-half days, man
and mule, q 50; cult,vating the
same, three months, three times
each month, four acres per day for
boy and mule, so cts. per day,
tll %, The cane being now laid
BY. the aggregate expense for labor
IS e66 Is for ten acres. To thia
add the cost Of fertilizer, say 5000
pounds cotton seed meal, 5000
pounds acid phosphate, and 1900
pounds ashes VI cotton seed hulls,
distributed At the rate Of $50 lbs.
per acre, at. an expense Of 81 per
lVO pounds, say as. and the ten
acres of sugar cane are ready fOr
the knife Of the harvester, 1t . to-
tai cost Of el4l IS. Now, il this
ten acres gives . yield of 20 tons
to the acre, the ratio Of producing,
that Is. the making it ready for the
cutter, il at the rate Of II cents
per ton But II the yield were to
tall to Is tons per acre, $50 tons Of
cane would cost, to make It ready
for the cutter. only 3l4l Is,
sliShtly less than 81 per ton. A
hundred mouths win open to dis
pute this ststement, Others win
treat it with silent contempt. But,
remember, in the uplands no ex.
pensive bitches are needed no six
mule teams attended By . pair Of
big negroes are needed, and I'll
cultivation il performed with i'm
plements-a hoe in . labores's hand
b rarely seen in . cane field. The
writer has already established the
foregoing facts they are facts, not
estimates
Nov, pass from the field with the
cutters, loaders, carters and sugar
house gang to the mill, and exam.
inc the labor expenses - the sugar
10 ready for the hogsheads OF bar
rels. To cut, load, cart, grind and
work the cane into sugar. i've acres
l. full days work for the writer's
mill. Six cutters to each acre will
cut it; three loaders 70 the acre
will load it, and five carts win carry
It to the mill four men viii lay We
cane on the carrier; one man win
attend the feeding, and one Win
look after the straiuers and the
juice tank two men Win attend the
CHARTERS. and two Others win take
care Of the evaporatoss and pan !;
one man win make the flre, and two
boys will take care Of the bagasse.
Now let ~ summarize: Thirty
cutters. fifteen leaders, 1--WE cart
ers. make fifty at 81 each. The
carrier and sugar house men are
ten in all, they working till mid
night for 81 so each. The fireman
another 81 so, and the engineer
q so and sugar boiler 4S so. The
aggregate expense for labor-6eld
and n,ill-amounts to 372 so. Add
this cum to half the expense Of
+preparstion, cultivating and isrtil-
ming the ten acres, (f0r only one
half Of the ten acres have been cut