St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-10-02
CR0g CONDITIONS
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The New oasans Picayuue aed
lang adltorially @ thescrop conda5ons,
Issays:
4nafng the naat Eeek the eanbral
IpertioHeof the oebton6belt has been
Nitedg one Of the .severest tDop
lica hurricanes experienced ID many
years, iii not acsnaIly the severest
over knoKn, NataEalIysafter such a
zlstiop. there are May reports q
eztapsive damage in cotton. Az
muck scctson was oPan, there has no
Doubt beanadamags from seuch open
B 6singbloWn oil, and many I'M
manure bolls have also no aa1bt been
|bloWu away. Az the same time il
must be remembered thas die dam
age fuam all these staznsis exag-
Hgerssed and generally turns cut to
be mach less serious than .st first
supposed.
"Another peins to be remembered
is that this ~psEticular storm passed
through aectionof the cotton belt
where the onop was already admitted
to be short and where already ,oen-
siderable picking had been aoe0nr
iplished. Had the more easterly States,
where there is q good crop, been Wis
ited, the damage would undoubtedly
hare been much greater. While the
atQEm win no doubt help to still fur
ther curtail an already short crop, il
is probable that ia the long run the
actual damage from that cause viii
be the least evil the crop has had to
suffer &om.
A0thar crops than cotton nsturally
suffered from the storm to a greater
or less extent. Fortunately, The rice
crop in q very large portion Of the
storm area had already been gath
cred, willis il the more westerly por-
tions Of the rice belt The force Of the
wind was not nearly so .grest, So
that the damage to that portion of
the crop still unharEested will not be
great.
In the sugar district the storm
was felt at it's worst, and the dam
age done has been eerrespondingly
severe, including not only the blow
ing down Of the canes. but more or
less serious damage 10 sugar-houses
and other plantation property. Even
b the sugar district, however, it is
more than probable that the loss viii
be less thar at frst expected. Blown
Town canes seldom lose much from
hat experience, while there is yet
lime to make necessary repairs to
gugar-houses. The Louisiana Planter
md Sugar Manufactures, in its edition
# Saturday last, says, editorially:
From every quarter Of the sugar
,elt come tales Of disaster TO the
,rop, the result of the hurricane Of
sept. 10th. The most positive dam
lge is that done to the sugar-houses,
S that can be measured By the cost
i repairs and rebuilding, for which
here is yet a reasonable time ahead
i us. Much work can be done in
orty or fifty days, and cane grinding
hould be postponed to the latest
Practicable date. In the cane fields
he chief and striking damage Is that
TO 3 "a, which, instead Of bend
ng 10 the storm, snapped of. To
THAT extent the damage to It may
each is yet to be seen. Senator
Provost of iberia parish, il a hurri-
.ane ii 1879, which affected BIS
canes similarly, swapping their
ops off, found them to work reason
bly, well and to make open-kettle
ugar satisfactorily, as was bis method
Il that time. All other canes ii the
ountry were blown down, but this is
lot necessarily any serious disaster,
nd may diminish their sugar yield
ut little. if any. II is perhaps pre-
to make an estimate of our
robable final results, but if done, we
hall say that our expected sugar
rop Of $4,000 long tons, and this
aling of to come chiefly from the
amaged b "a cane.
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