The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-07-25
Tie Future Of the Sugar
Industry.
Louisiana Sugar Growers Must ttlopt
the Central Factory System.

Inv tbuuilioIS ulltGi WHICH lLll
will be produced in Louisiana in the
near future is now engaging the atten-
ton of those directly an indirectly in
terested In the industry TO a greater.
extent than at any previous time
More and more the impression is gain
ing ground that the production of cane
and the manufacture of its sacclarine
content into marketable products
must be carried on as separate and
distinct vocatIOnS, and TO accomplish
the end in view, Central Factories in
adequate numbers must be established
in the most favorable localities in the
State. To fully comprehend tlIeimpera-
tive necessity for a change from anti
quatea methods, it is olly necessary TO
carefully note the depreciation in
values, and study tie cause. In 1882.
graduated sugars sold for o cents per
pound, and to-day they are quoted at
A cents. a decline of u cents per
pound in ten years. Such retro"res-
sian in prices has been brought about
by the gigantic strides made in the
production OF beet sugars, resulting
from the increased saccharIue strength
Of the juice III the beets, and its scien-
tlfic manipulation in the central Usines
OF Europe. But for the protection of
one halt a cent per pound which the
r%efiners receive under the new sugar
laws, II country would i've flooded
with beet sugars. Lickt estimates the
last years beetsugar output of Europe
a. 3,6l0,O0U tons, and the colonial and
domestic sugars are supposed to ii ag-
gregate only 2,340,000 tons. Of which
from latest reports, Cuba will supplv
from $50 to 100000 tons. Not only is
the immense quantity Of beet sugars
produced under he central factor
system. but the two largest cane sugr
producing countries in the world, Lu-
ga and Java, are rapidly adoptlr the
continental methods.
Two important factors cannA be ln-
d~efinately ignored by those aterested
IN sugar production in louisiana the
first is the worlds competition for our
home markets. and t}e second The
possibility of prolongsi protection by
the bounty OF tariff. 10 tlle people OF
the entire country regardless OF party
proclivities. vsiole signs of progress in
Increased deduction, and more eco
nomic nsthods of manufacture must ,
be sho,n throughout the sugar belt at
no datant date, or the taxpayers will
de.fand and insist on knowing what
las becCm of the millions of money
dlsbursed from the vaults of the Ma
tlonal Treasury, to the can growers OF
country. 1t is TO be presumed the !,
OF the bounty scheme Ito :
last tor a given term of years. had two a.,
III view-the first was to eDa-
BILE the employees of those necessary
20 carry on the business to paw wages
n excess OF those earned by the poorly
aid operatives of Europe, and the
coolies, and slave races of the troptcs 2
the second to enable the pro-
p~rletOrs OF sugar estates by their earn :
Ing to discard the old machinery Of
ante bellum days and replace it by G
plants OF the highest known type of d
Which the maximum results can be had 6
1t minimum cost. =
The records of some of the largest
Establishments in the State show that t
lnce b campaign of 1854 the average
'ugar content Of the canes has been
yer Is per cent. yet the yield has not
0no PCi ooht, ol sugar per ton OF
:ane in the greater number of houses. t
The Centrals of the future should be
% equipped that the average will not g
'e less than 10 per cent GOO lbs.) of
ugar, with an aggregate polarization
~ degrees. TO insure the prosperi- u
y OF the cane producers (Which is all
importantly, and at the same time ena
lie the proprietors of the Centrals to G
ealize handsome dividends on the o
apltal invested, every thing pertain \
ng to the structure and working of the I
actories should be SO conducted as to t