The Donaldsonville chief., 1910-09-24
SUGAR SQUIBS.
Also meteorological Mention, Rice Remarks,
Corn Comment, Flowing Paragraphs and
Personal Pointers Preparations for
t41.a S..aar EIaruast In E,r:dence

| Corn Comment, Flowing Paragraphs and
Personal Pointers Preparations for
the Sugar Harvest in Evidence.
Ascension's contribution to the Local
Letters department of the esteemed
Louisiana Sugar Planters issue of today,
contains the following interesting sum
mary of current weather and crop condi-
tions:
This parish and section have been
blessed with week of beautiful weather.
embracing the conditions most favorable
to agricultural interests at this season of
the year. No rain has fallen since the
| 9Th instant, much to the delight, not only
of planters and farmers, but Of people en-
gagged in ali lines of business hereaway.
While the days are still very warm, the
nights are cool just what is needed for
the cane crops.
observer w. D. Parks official weather
summary reads as follows: Plenty of
sunshine; weather most favorable for
field work and beneficial to cane; dry and
| cool; maximum temperature so degrees;
minimum 81 degrees on the 18th, clear
weather and northeast winds prevailed
during the entire week That tells the
tale in nutshell and a pleasant tale
it is.
plantation field work, which was prac-
tically suspended for some days on ac-
count of the prevalence of rainy weather.
has been resumed with vim, and fall
plowing and the harvesting of the corn
and hay crops are on in earnest. Corn is
yielding on many places an average of
about twenty-five barrels to the acre, and
the crop is said to be the best gathering
in the past several years. Peavines suf-
fered considerable damage from frequent
rains and insects, hence the hay yield
viii be shorter than anticipated.
Rice threshing is about completed in
this parish. The seasons work came to
close on Emile LeBoeuf's Point Hournas
plantation last Monday, with an output of
ABOUT l5UU bags.
'On the Lemann Company's Dugas and
Perseverance places. where considerable
acreage is devoted to rice culture, thresh-
ing .lbe finished in about a week, with
something like 5000 to 10000 bags as the
seasons output. On these places the
cereal averaged fourteen bags to the acre,
and on Mr.. LeBoeuf's place eleven bags
to the acre.
The water standpipe formerly located
Oh Louisiana Square and constituting a
part of Donaldsonvilie' municipal water
works system, was sold several months
ago because the application of direct
pump pressure to the water mains at all
times rendered the further maintenance
Of standpipe pressure unnecessary. jos
|. Cafiero, the Weii-known local smoke
stack rigger and handler of heavy
machinery, was the purchaser of the
standpipe which he subsequently sold to
Clarence c. Barton the prominent As
sumption planter, and the pipe was re-
Gently placed in position by the vendor
on Mr.. Barton's Little Texas plantation.
fhe standpipe, ninety feet in length and
nine feet in diameter was con-
veyed to Little Texas and erected in
whole, a feat that speaks well for Mr..
Cafero's facilities and skill in his line OF
work
George B. Reuss. one of Ascensions
largest planters and president of the DO
ice jury Of the parish, has brought his
charming family from their summer resi-
dence at Waveland. MISS to the lovely
home on Germania plantation. Mfr.
Reuss is not grumbling over crop cor.di
tfons-in fact, he is one of the minority
who are rarely heard to eomplahl-and ii
is safe to predict that the Geffnania and
Belle Helene factories will give as good
an account of themselves during the ap-
proaehing grinding season as the average
Of their neighbors.
Hon. Henry Mccall is due to return to
Louisiana Oct. 3, after an absence of two
months III the North and East in sue
ceSsful search for better health. Mr. Mo.
Call and his cousin, Col. Richard Mccall.
will be up to their eyes in preparations
for the harvesting of the Evan Hall and
Mehlanor sugar crops as soon as The
wanderer sets foot on his native heart.
George Poche, a skillful young mechap-
ical engineer who has been here about
three months visiting relatives, left last
Monday for Vidal Morelos. Mexico. where
he is employed as chief engineer of a |
large factory where alcohol is principally
manufactured from the jaiee of the sugar
cane. Mr. Poehe was accompanied by
his wife.
james Maurin. another competent
young DonaidsonVllle engineer. who has
been assisting chief engineer Alex
Poche in overhanling the Lemann Cor.
pany's Palo Alto factory for the past
three months, viii leave tomorrow f.,
Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, 10 resume
bis position as chief engineer of the
United Sugar Company 'slarge and modern
factory