The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-01-17
ECONOMY IN SUGAR Pro-
DUCTION.
Continued from page one.)

-. a better understanding and
more friendly feeling must be
brought about between cane grow
ers and factory owners. Growers
must be fully and carefully instruct
ed on the points of drainage, soil re-
novation,l feed production and cattle
and hog raising. This work must be
consistently followed VI all the year
round, by means Of cane clubs, mod
eled after corn clubs, and by other
means arranged by factory owners.
's5. Loans on sugar plantations
must, if possible, be re-financed on
est, and more convenient maturities.
'tAll this can be accomplished at
far less expense than the up-rootlng
Of cane as the staple crop of SOUTH
west Louisiana, and attempting to
substitute something else in it's
place; task which government ex-
perts have given up as impracticable,
and which is unnecessary, as cape
can be made to yield the manufac-
turer over SIS per ton under free SUI
gar, and yield the grower better
profit than anything he can substitute
in it's place.
THE sugarhouses now equipped or
that can be equipped to make planta
ton graduated could perhaps stand
free sugar if choice molasses could
be sold at reasonable price, say
100 lh. granulated at cents and 10
gallons molasses at 20 cents, max
ing S. per ton; but these results
could only be obtained by canning the
moiasses and selling sugar and mo-
lasses direct to the consumer and
cutting off the exorbitant profits
made at our expense by the middle
-4len, Gamers and refineries. Having
no personal experience about granu-
lated sugar, l must leave all pertain
ing to that subject to the expert
chemists who have demonstrated it's
feasibility in Louisiana.
THE making of syrup may also
possibly enable us to meet free SUI
gar. A very low yield with s or
8 roller mill would be rs gallons per
ton of cane. | have been assured by
DR.. Stubs that with an extraction of
80 per cent in the mill, 80 gallons
could be obtained. In fact, we
know that so per cent means 1900
pounds Of juice per ton, which re-
duced to Is would yield 800 pounds
of syrup, Or about 30 gallons; but
estimating Is gallons at 20 cents net
to the factory would give SIS, which
is far better than can be obtained
making Y. c., choice whites or &C.
degree test.
Georgia, am informed makes
100000 barrels of 80 gallons, equal to
nearly 100000 50-gallon barrels Of
syrup, which is canned and sold all
over the south. Why then, could
We not, with our superior apparatus
and with so many competent men at
our command. make better article
and secure a wider market?
ITO secure this a uniform article,
uniform brand and uniform system of
canning would be desirable. A syrup
Of beautiful, honey color and densi-
ty, branded Pure Louisiana Syrup,
without any adulterants, would soon
become popular, and if the whole
crop of Louisiana was turned into
syrup it would mean less than one
gallon of syrup to every man, woman
and child in the United States. Why
should We fear to glut the mar
ket? The only question seems to
be to make the goods right, can,
them and advertise and sell them in
a buslness-like way. This latter
question I believe would be a good
subject for a future discussion and
will not undertake it today