The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-11-11
SUGAR sQUIBs.
Progress of the Grinding Campaign
In Ascension and Elsewhere
Items of Interest from Field and
Factory.

Items of Interest from Field anc
Factory.
The weather of the past week has
| not been of the variety best suited
to the present needs of the sugar
planters, having been warm and
rainy throughout the earlier part OF
the period, and clear but not suffi.
GENTLY cool during the past three
days. However, the conditions were
not near SO unfavorab1e as they
might have been, and there is really
no cause for complaint on the part
of the sugar planters as to the char
acter of weather which has prevailed
so far this season, save that cooler
temperatures would be much more ac-
ceptable than the rather high Their
mometrical readings which have OBJ
tanned of late. Monday was one OF
the warmest November days on
record in this community, the mer-
curry having assembled to the S5-de-
gree mark, with 63 degrees as the
lowest point touched during the
tWenty-four hour period. Tuesday was
slightly cooler and cloudy, and prac-
tically the same conditions prevailed
on Wednesday. Light showers fell
at intervals throughout the. two days,
.05 of an inch and on Wednesday 20
of an inch, making a total of a
quarter of an inch Of moisture. The
rainfall proved welcome in as much
as it served to lay the dust, which
was very thick in the roads and
fields and had begun to prove a
source of annoyance.
Local Observer Park furnishes the
following statistics concerning eli
matte conditions for the month of
October: Maximum temperature, "a
degrees, recorded on the 4th, 5th,
9TH and 8th;; minimum, IS degrees on,
the 23rd rainy days, 5, with a total
downfall of 8.91 inches; greatest
precipitation in "a hours, $50 inches
on the 18th, clear days, "a; cloudy,
5; partly cloudy, 2. Traces Of rain
were noted ON the 10th and 18th,
and a light frost was observed on
the 23rd
Deidrich Ohlmeyer, the capable SUI
gar-boiler of the Wilbert Companys
fine Myrtle Grove factory in Iberville5
parish, paid a hurried business visit
to Donaldsonville on Wednesday, and
in the course of a conversation with
a Chief representative stated that
Myrtle Grove is chewing up from
HOO to 1900 tons of cane daily in
the smoothest kind of fashion and
is turning out a fancy grade of white
sugar, with nice results being OBJ
tanned. Mr.. Ohlmeyer says the cane
received from Avoyelles parish, of
which quite large quantity will be
ground at Myrtle Grove this season,
is much ripper than the local output,
although the juice from the latter
aas shown considerable Improvement
as regards sucrose content within
the past few days, and will probably
soon attain normal state.
O. Crochet, of barrow, is putting
in his twelfth consecutive season as
chief sugar-boiler of the Supple Com
pany's Catherine factory in 1berville
parish, and will again be assisted
ibis year, as heretofore, by his son.
Fulgence. The latter left this week
TO assume the post of second in
command of the Catherine sugar
making department, having been pre-
vented from reporting for duty at
The outset of the campaign by reason
If the fact that he was then recu-
oerating from the effects Of a rel
cent surgical operation.
Joe Werner, Of this city, who has
oeen assisting his brother, Chris.
Werner, in manipulating the proof
sticks at the Godchaux Company's
zig Elm Hall factory in Assumption
parish, passed through Dona1dson-
lille Tuesday en- route to Angola,
he state penal farm in West Fell
,iana parish, where he goes to as
sumo a position as sugar boiler in
he modern factory erected by the
)enitentiary board of control to take.
IF the cane crops of the Angola,
Oakley and Monticello farms. Grind
ng was started at the Angola mill
he,-past week.
Hal. Aleman, Well-known cane
grower OF upper St. James who has
sold his crop to the SAILS
,urg factory, is disposing Of his 1911 4
output TO the Alemdn FIaHllnS anu
Manufacturing Company, of which
:oncern he is stakeholder Mr..
Aleman is shipping his cane to the
Aleman Company's open-kettle Cosa
Natural factory in Assumption parish
" way Of the Texas and Pacific
Railroad. a switch having been con-.
tructed by the railroad company in
he rear of his plantation to IA
ilitate the loading of cars. He re-
'orts a yield Of 10 tons of stubble
Ter acre from the back lands of II
lis tract, which are poorly drained,
nd IS tons from more favorably To-