The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-12-22
The Louisiana Sugar Planters
Association.

Thursday evening at its rooms on
Union street, in New Orleans.
There was fairly good atten-
dance, among those present being
Mr.. W. Thompson, Hon. Henry
Mccall, Col. Richard Mccall, Mr..
Frank Davies, Mr.. James Mallon,
Mr.. L. A. Becnel, Mr.. Bierce and
several others, with President
Emile Rost in the chair and Sc
cretary Reginald Dykers at the
desk. On motion duly made the
reading of the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting was dispensed with.
There being no candidates for
membership, the president stated
that the first business before the
meeting was the consideration OF
a letter written by Mr.. A. A. Nor
row, of st. Martinville, La, to DR..
w. G. Stubs, in which he refer
red to the excellent results obtain
ed on his place this season through
the use of the Mallon cultivator.
The letter was submitted by Mr..
James Mallon, to whom DR.. Stubs
had sent it, with a request that it
be read to the association, and Mr..
Mallon also displayed a stalk of
cane of extraordinary size as a
sample of Mr.. Morrow's crop. At
the request of President Rost the
letter was read by the secretary
and was as follows:
Audubon Park, New Orleans, La.
Dear Sir: sent you to-day stalk Of
cane cut from the fiftv-scre patch Of
which You saw some at our institute,
cultivated on your surface cultivation
plan. One cut of five acres (the one the
stalk was cut FROM gave me IS tons per
acre, and the rest Of the Fifty acres gave
% and "a tons. an average Of Is tons on
all that was cultivated with the disk
cultivator and Mallon's Middle Bursters.
and the rest of my crop Of cane that was
cultivated with the pillow and disk Guilt
vator, equally as good stand. gave me
from l6 10 II tons per acre, and had it
not been for the Mallon Middle Burs-
ters l could not have cultivated the
amount of land that l did with the
mules had. think the Middle Burs-
ters are great labor and mule savers,
and are indispensable implement on q
plantation, and hope all that have used
them are. like myself. not sorry for ha-
wing bought them.
can assure you that st. Martinville
and Breaux Bridge will give you and
your faculty rousing reception mex
year for they all seem to appreciate your
visit ever SO much. 1t has just dawned
upon the planter that an annual insti-
tute is a necessity to the farmers vel.
fare.
Kindest regards TO all my friends Of
the institute, and am as ever,
Your friend,
A. A. MORROW
After the letter had been read
its subject matter was discussed at
considerable length by those pre-
sent and much interest was mani
tested in the excellent results
which has been obtained through
the use of Mallon's implements on
the plantation of Mr.. Morrow.
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At this point the Hon. Henry
Mccall addressed the chair and
said that very serious question
had arisen recently in connection
with the sugar planting industry
of the state and he considered it
of such Importance that he ven-
tured to suggest that it be discus
sed at the January meeting and
that DR.. Stubs address be post :
poned until the February meeting.
He said that he referred to the
ravages inflicted in this state by
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