The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-12-12
SUGAR sQUIBs.
Progress of the Grinding Campaign in As
eension and EIsewhere-Items of In
ferest from Field and Factory.

eensiOn and EIsewhere-Items of In
ferest from Field and Factory.
Evan Hall factory has about three
weeks more grinding in sight, with
good weather, and if the weather takes
an unfavorable turn of a kind to in
terfere with field work, the campaign
will be CORES pondingly prolonged.
Reports from this place are to the eff
feet that cane has shown some deteri-
Grafton since the cold spell last month
that nipped the bud of the standing
plant, and the falling of was aug
mented by the warm weather that fol-
lowed the cold. Although the process
of deterioration has been someWha at
arrested by the cooler temper atures of
| the past two weeks, it is not in the ma
| ture of things that it should be al
together checked. On the contrary.
under the most favorable conditions
The loss of saccharine content must
continue in some measure TO the end
of the harvest season. Tonnage is
fairly good, but not SO satisfactory as
was hoped for when grinding COM
| menced. The Mccall mills are hand
ling considerable outside cane in ad-
ditiop to the crops of Evan Hall and
Mem anor, and the factory work has
proceeded quite smoothly from the
outset.
When Hon. Henry Mccall came up
from New Orleans for his regular
weekend visit to Evan Hall last Sat
urday, he was accompanied by Sir
Harry Johnston of London, distin-
guished Englishman who is spending
a fortnight in Louisiana, studying the
negro problem and gathering material
for contributions on this and other
subjects to the London Times, Nc
Clure's Magazine, Harper's Weekly
and other publications. Sir Harry
took number of views On Evan Hall,
and was much interested in the agri-
cultural and labor conditions to be
observed on this model Louisiana
sugar plantation. Himself something
of a linguist, speaking three Ian
guages fuently, he was not a little
surprised to find that many of the hum
olest laborers and tenants on and
about the Mccall estate speak English,
French and Spanish with almost equal
facility, while those who use two of
these tongues are the rule rather than
the exception there. Sir Harry spent |
about twenty years In South Africa as |
a special commissioner Of the British |
consular service, charged with the
duty OF organizing colonial govern
ments in the different parts of that |
country, and hence he has been a |
close observer of the condition and I
of the negro race in the |
land of its nativity. His obsery ations
in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana have led TO the |
conclusion that the negroes of America |
would be very unwise to return to
Africa, as they are much better off |
here than they could hope to be any
where on the dark continent. The
eminent visitor returned TO New Or
leans with Mr.. Mccall Sunday AFTER
noon.
Ell. G. Barr, who has been employed
IS chemist at the Mccall Bros. Evan
Hall factory, left this week, accom-
panied by his charming wife, for
Iovellanos, Cuba, where he will have
ID arge of the Soledad sugarhouse
Turing the coming grinding season.
is one Of the old Cuban estates
which has remained in the same
spanish family for over 100 years,
md is now the property of Rafael
fernandez, of AYiles, Spain. Mr..
Barr has held the responsible position
# superintendent of the Soledad :
actory for the past five years, and be
Informs Us that while the mill is not :
onsidered a large one, as sugarhouses i
o in Cuba, it manages to get away !
18th 1000 tons of cane day and turns :
AZ OF0A SWOAty -l1N6 HItlliOl- pCuDUS ! r
1 sugar during the season. i
K. A. Aucoin, the efficient field man
ger of ST. Emma plantation and \
aief sugar boiler and superintendent q
the St. Emma factory, came to town il
gednesday to attend the regular BIZ {
lonthIy meeting of the police jury, OF !,
hich body he is leading and +,
Ifuential member. Mr.. Aucoin =
ates that ST. Emma has about two n
ore weeks of work in sight, hence if
0 serious accident or other unfore-
zen delay is encountered operations
III be concluded in time to permit the 9
embers of the factory crew to reach y
leir respective homes for Christmas. u
tuhhle cane has averaged % tons to d
Re acre, while the yield of plant q
lnges from "a to 80 tons. OF the lat q
#, the highest yield obtained from y
alive cane was % tons, while a maxi y
um of 80 Ions was cut from portions y
D, a acreage. With the exception :,
slight accident on the first day of L
he campaign, when coupling broke 1e
lortly after the machinery had been