, 1891-09-30

sugar work with DR.. Wiley. AS professor
of chemistry in the sugar school, DR.. Stnbbs
has secured the services of Mr.. Fl. D. L. HOr-
ton, a graduate of Harvard, and for two
years a special student under Tollens, of
Gottingen, the eminent German chemist.
During the last two years Mr.. Horton has
been employed in special sugar investiga-
tons by DR.. Wiley. A frst-class professor
o fthe mechanical side of the sugar industry
will be secured, and a first-class and ex-
perienced sugar maker has been secured to
teach the pupils that branch Of the business.
We shall publish a complete prospectus
within a few days, and the sugar school at
Audubon Park will soon take it's place
among the leading industrial Institutions
OF learning.
From our Louisiana point of view there
can be nothing done for our sugar industry
that it needs more, and that is more certain
Ofbringing tous quick and profitable returns.
The work now doing is the completion of
that announced in our issue of June 20, after
the Executive Committee of the Sugar Elk
pertinent Station decided to establish the
school.
In order to defray the expenses of the
school, additional stock subscriptions are
now being solicited fl ON all those who found
ed the sugar Experiment station, and from all
others who may now be willing to come in
and aid in this good cause.
There has certainly never been an insti-
tuition arising from the evident needs of an
industry that has so we'll fulfilled it's mission
as has our Sugar Experiment Station thus
far. In recognition and assertion of that
fact the Executive Committee, at it's June
session, adopted the following resolutions.
ResolUed, That recognizing the valuable
services rendered throughout the past five
years by DIR. VIM. @. Stubs, at this station,
and fully believing that it has been the
means of awakening throughout the state a
spirit of progress in general agriculture, we
tender that gentleman a vote of thanks
therefor, endorse his work and determine
to continue the work Of the station on about
the present lines and
Be at further r~ssolued, that the Louisiana
Scientific Agricultural Association has full
filed the promises made on it's organization,
proved its utility and is now in better
shape to aid in the development Of all
branches OF the sugar industry, and pos
SesseS better facilities for so doing than
any similar body in amy cane growing cOun-
try in the world.
1t Will now become necessary to obtain
the subscriptions to the new stock sufficient
to carry on this work, aud every friend of
orr sugar industry should lend a hand and
aid in the cause. Every sugar planter,
every cane grower in the state is benefited
by what has been done and will be benefited
by what will be done. The hundreds of
dead sugar houses scattered throughout the
fair and fertile fields of our state, are mOnu-
ments of q departed industry. 1t could not
survive modern competition, and could not
meet the new conditions. But there is a
new sugar industry now developing, keenly
alive to every improvement, availing of
every opportunity to better its methods,
and this new industry has come to stay.
The sugar Experiment Station, the Sugar
School, and the Sugar Planters Association
are its handiwork, and the sugar crop of
1890, nearly 100000 short tons, nearly as
large as any crop ever made in onte-bellWm
days with slave labour, and with double the
acreage Of cane, this crop shows. what Loui-
siana can do, and the result Of the potent
Influences we have cited. Let every friend
Ofthe Louisiana sugar industry now rally
to the support of our Sugar School.