The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1902-04-26


on sugar plantation is no small
affair. They also keep constantly Y
on such plantation sixty five 7
mules of the best size and build, +
that are now worth 5000 each in
open market. The sugar section
of Louisiana buys about $1,000,
900 worth of mules year from
Louisiana and Kentucky. In
Cuba all cultivation is done with
oxen.
The cost of sugar production in
Louisiana is s75 per ton of 224O
pounds. In Hawaii the cost per
ton is $50, in Porto Rico, $2S, and
in Cuba, $40.
i The ordinary laborer on a Louis |
lana sugar plantation is paid %
cents day during the cultivatlng
season, which lasts nine and a
half months during the year. lnl
the harvesting season, lasting the
f balance of the year, he is paid as
follows: Teamsters and cane load.
ers, $1.4O per day, and cane cut
f ters, 1925 per day.
None but the best are selected
for teamsters and leaders, and
a their wages are uniform. The
:. above wages for cane cutters are
n for first-class men. Old men,
women and boys are paid less,
q and their wages average from IS
a cents to $1.2O per day, their
n wages being based upon the
\. amount of work they do.
a In addition to the foregoing
IS moneyed wages, the laborer on
4 the plantations is furnished with
n house and garden patch of about
10 one-quarter of an acre. He is
likewise furnished with his fuel
N (wood) and the use Of the planta
" ton team to haul it to his house
If and he is also furnished patel
m of about one half acre of ground
ID on which he grows corn, peas ant
% sweet potatoes. He is allowed
~. the use Of the plantation mules
al and plows on Saturday evening
n. to cultivate his crop. All OF tn
,r above are furnished free of charge
at Skilled labor on plantation
Of likewise is paid well, and the com
he pensation ranges, according to th
of position filled, from $50 to $40
no per month, usually with board an
is lodging. This does not includ
he the sugar boiler, who is general
nv paid by the thousand pounds, som
,te of them making as much as $50
,ar per month. The above is fe
is vacuum pan sugar boilers.
!. Another large item of expens
,oo in sugar planting is commerei'
Nv fertilizer, principally the produ'
~ of the Kansas City and Chicae
,at stock yards, commonly called tam
49, age, though some planters III
- cottonseed meal. The cost of tn
80 item of fertilizer on an 500 ac
Sc Louisiana sugar plantation
- about 81, 900 per annum.
~ ~ Another large item of expen
,;a on a sugar plantation Of the si
r.: above described is fuel used t
-. generating steam during the ma
80 ufcaturlng season. There a
oot used during the harvesting seas
- about 1000 tons of Pennsylvan
coal, worth, at our furnace doc
about $500. They also purcha
ana considerable grain, as they do \
lled raise sufficient feed for their stot
OF and the feed bill is about $2,5
Fals' per annum.
,a The expense for sugar bar
p'o material, nearly all Of which
~ bought in the State Of Ohio, {
'as be put at an annual cost of 81, z
" Harness, rope, leather and incid
70" tails, such as plows, oak lumb
70" new cane wagon now and th
'' and various other items too
Pc. merous to mention can be pla
? " at an annual cost, on a plantat
~ as above set forth, of $2 900.
On such a place are cOnsur
alton about $4,000 pounds of Gu
'tlon, meat, bought from the W
.lvat- about 400 barrels of -four,
from wise from the West, besides Il
no