The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-10-29
SUGAR sQUIBS.
Opening of the Grinding Campaign IA As
cension and Eisewhere-Items of In
tsrest from Field and Fastory.


A few days of ideal fall weather pre-
vailed during the latter part of last week,
the low temperatures predicted by the
weather bureau having arrived on sched-
uie time Thursday night, Oct. 20. and re-
NAMED III effect until Sunday, greatly to
the qualification and benefit of the sugar
planters, and, indirectly, to the commu-
nifty at large. The cool snap commenced
to peter out at the beginning of the cur
rent week and for the greater part Of the
period the mercury has lowered in the
neighborhood of a rather unseasonably
| high thermometrical altitude. A light
shower fell in portions of the parish
Thursday forenoon and was cordially vel
coined, rain being needed to lay the dust
which had accumulated on the public
highways and plantation roads since the
last precipitation.
/ L. H. Dupre. the capable manager of
the Presqu'il plantation in Terrebonne
parish, passed through Donaldsonviue
Monday forenoon en- route to Belle Rose,
Assumption parish, where he paid fly
ing visit to relatives. Mr.. Dupre, who
resided on the Evan Hall plantation in
this parish for a number of years, was
cordially greeted by his numerous friends
in this community during his brief stay
here, and all of them were pleased to
note his hale and hearty appearance and
to learn from him that he and his esti-
mable family are enjoying the blessings of
good health and happiness. Presqu'n
made a fine crop of corn this year and is
promised an unusually successful and
prosperous grinding, the cane crop being
in excess of last years yield by at least
1000 tons from all appearances. The
campaign was inaugurated.. Thursday,
Oct. 81.
Mrs. E. H. Barton's St. Emma factory
got away Tuesday morning, the 25th
inst. This wen-equipped and admirably
managed plant never fails to give a most
excellent account of itself, and unless
there should be a serious breakdown or
some other catastrophe the nature of
which is at present unforeseen, St. Emma
viii probably come forward with a few
figures at the end of the season which
viii compare most fayorably with those
furnished by any other factory in the Lou
isiana cane belt. K A. Aucoin, ST., who
for many years has done double duty as
field manager of St. Emma plantation
and chief sugar-boiler and superintendent
OF St. Emma factory. will again be in
charge of the mills sugar-making de
partment and may be depended upon to
coax as high yield from the cane juice
as it is possible to obtain.
The Lemann Company's Palo Alto
factory started grinding at II o'clock mid
night on Tuesday, Oct. Is, and barring a
minor accident which occurred few min
utes after the machinery was set in mo-
ton and delayed operations for several
hours, the plant has been running in a
smooth and satisfactory manner and is
chewing up cane at the rate of several
hundred tons per day A number of we'll
known Donaldsonvillians are included in
the Palo Alto clerical and mechanical |
corps, among them being Alex. Poche.
chief engineer; j. W. Byrnes, electrician;
Lawrence Creoli, Dsming operator; James
Profitt, chief cane-Weighef; Leopold JAM |
bois and others
Prof. Kerr, of the department of
mechanical engineering of the Louisiana
State University. is conducting series OF
experiments at Palo Alto with view to
determining the best method of burning
coal, bagasse and other fuel in order to
obtain the maximum amount of heat
efficiency for the least quantity Of fuel
employed. Prof. Kerr and some of the
graduate students of the State University
have been engaged in these experiments
at various sugar mills throughout the
state for the past three or four years, and
the outcome of the interesting investiga-
ton is being awaited with no little inter-
est by the sugar planters and manufac-
turers of the state.
S. Prejean's Half Way factory in upper
Assumption ground its first stalk of cane
at noon Thursday, the 9th inst, and if
the favorable conditions attending the
opening of the campaign should prevail
throughout the season-or the greater
part of it, at any rate-there is every
promise that the 1910 grinding will prove
1ne Of the smoothest and most successful
n Half Ways history. j. F. Oubre. Of |
is holding down the inn
oortant position of chief sugar-boiier, and :
las a capable assistant in young Mr.. {
Michel, of Smoke Bend Louis Landry, Of {
Assumption. is cock of the walk in the I
Albert Muller. of Galvez, PASSED through {
)onaldsonville Thursday en- route to {
4auderdale, where he puts in the grinding t