The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-12-06
NUMBER Is
CROP COMMENT.
Interesting Notes from PaIo Alto
and St. Emr1a--Latter Factory
Probably Conducting Its Last
Grinding Successful! Campaign
at Both Houses.

Grinding - Successful. Campaign
at Both Houses i
Palo Alto central, in Ascension,
owned by the Lemann Co.. Ltd,
inaugurated the campaign Oct. so
and up to Nov. % had disposed OF
close to $4,000 tons Of cane. The
probability is that $4,000 to- 20 900
more will be handled, for the tonnage
is proving very fair IN general. At
the outset the juices were rather
good, and the second week OF better
quality. The chief sugar maker,
Frad. Werner. Sr., has been boiling
SO as to get virtually all the avail
able sugar out III the form OF 96-test
goods, with a reduction Of molasses
to about 30 purity.
In the factory, where Arthur Lem
ann officIates as superintendent, the
chief engineer, P. Alex Poche, has
been running all departments true
to usual good form, and from now to
the close of the season about 5000
tons Of cane weekly should be put
through the mill.
The light freeze of Nov. 10 failed
to do much damage in the Lemann
Company's fields tributary to Palo
Alto central, and as a result no
wlndroWing has been done. The bud
was generally killed only in the
back lands, and in accordance that
cane has been harvested in prefer
ence to front cane, which accounts
for all the stubble not having been
disposed of to Nov 23 A peculiarity
of the effects of the killing frost was
shown in the bud not being killed to
anything like the extent in the D.
"a cane that it was in the home va
rieties. From the chemist, Thos. ].
showed a reduction last week against
the two preceding weeks, but the
first several days OF this week the
juice began to pick up again in sugar
content.
One of the chief difficulties en-
countered by the Lemann Company
in the disposition of the crop is the
marketing of the finished goods, due
to Woeful scarcity in cars ON the
T. P system Inability to move the
sugars and molasses promptly by rail
is forcing the hauling of some OF the
crop to the river landing at Donald
sonville, a, distince OF three or more
miles, for shipment by boat; and
were it not that this hauling was fa-
cilitated by exceptionally fine roads
there would not be room in and
about the factory for the finished
merchandise, SO difficult is it to se-
cure adequate car facilities.
st. '11faa factory III Ascension, the
| property of the estate Of d. IT. Bar
| ton, and which since January, 1872
has been leased by the son of the
former proprietor, Ernest H. Bartons
and his cousin, Percy Barton, Is prob
| ably conducting it's last grinding this
season. Next year there will be only
! stubble cane cultivated on the prop
erty, what with the Iessees giving up
| their tenure of the place and the de-
termination Of Mrs. e. Fl. Barton, the
administrator of the estate, not to
plant any more cane for a Whiles
pending an Improvement in the out
look for sugar.
The st. Emma mill was set in mo@
ton Oct. 27, and from Percy Bartons
who has charge OF manufacturing, it
was learned that to the 23rd inst.
8548 tons had been disposed of, with
/ = nrosnantiva 4fIa0 tons naora r., 1,an4
die Witch onghf f. keen tI,e nlant
Going ,1rti1 ahnI,f tho 4th ar 6fr nf
narf 7nonth During tha first two
Waaks, RIM ON stl1hh1a the weld In
straight first fancy sugars averaged
/ ti}3 poIIrfHs tn the ton and the mo-
1asses production (soId as rnade1
averaged 10 gallons The third week
of the campaign. however. when plant
came, was crushed the sugar WELD
fell off heavily. only so pounds being
secured. and the molasses obtain
ment. while Increasing to Il gallons.
did NOT compensate much for the SUI
gar reduction III view OF the extreme
| " low prices being paid for the
Mariana, brand produced at st.
Emma which classes as the very
highest grade centrifugal mo1asses on
the. market. almost in line with omen
train goods. AS to last weeks re-
suits, at the tine these data were
secured no definite figures were yet
available. but Judging by the weight
of iufce and it's manner of working.
il was consideret! likely that but lit
tie Improvement would be noted over
/ the preceding week of low return.
In the ST. Emma field. where
young Ernest Fl. Barton is the man
lager there were 387 acres of plant
cane this year, On which the average