New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-08-24

week. It is said that the Rose Hill fac
tory is undergoing considerable repairs
preparatory to ve1g big campaign this
year. In Vermiion, and the situation
is the same everywhere, the planters
have been holding mass meetings to
discuss the labor situation which every
one recognizes to be the greatest menace
to a great showing in sugar Louisiana
/ this season. In St. Martin which had
crowded West Baton Rouge out of first
honors for drought conditions, they are
now showing some of the finest speci
mems of cane to be found anywhere liz
sugar Louisiana this year. Twenty
tons to the acre is the predicted yield of
some favored places in that parish. But
that is not the universal situation there,
as the drought had done much damage
before the big rains came. However the
| St. Martin cane situation is vastly I'M
proved this week over last week and if
the favorable weather continues will be
still more wonderfully improved. There
is less talk of Mexican labor although
the American Cane Growers Associa
ton and New Orleans Government labor
officials are SUI OuSy cuucdVuIiuR " So4'E
the problem with the labor from Mexico.
There are some thousands of acres of
cane lands along the Atchafalaya River
from Melville to Simmesport. They are
new lands and well known sugar man
who has just returned from a trip all |
over the sugar belt said this week that !
the finest cane in Louisiana this year is |
to be seen along that stretch of about |
INVENTIVE miles. The cane is said to be
very tall now in that section and to ex-
cite the attention and admiration of ev
eryone passing through that district.
Many houses have finished running off
their seconds and thirds, and those that
have not, will soon finish. At the same
on the plantations and cannot be sold
because those who used to buy them
like the meat packers and others, are
using the certificates which they get in
very limited quantities for the purchase
Of the higher grades. Also there are
many who would like to buy the low
grades and cannot get the certificates,
and, when they do get chance, they
are buying the better classified seconds
Ire, for all practical purposes, positively
unstable. Protests have been made to
Rolph and a meeting of the American
Cane Growers Association has been
jailed for Tuesday of next week to in
;truct Judge Milling as to the things J.
hat the planters think ought to be done |!
It once by the international Committee
o make these sugars salable before the
nverting or deterioration that has al
eady started, progresses too far. A COM
nittee composed of Donelson Gallery,
ernest A. Burguieres and John Pharr
with Mr.. Parker, the Louisiana
7ood Administrator, earlier in the week.
throughout the week, it was said that
very warm telegram had been for
varded to Mr.. Rolph rotesting in strong
st terms against the policy of closing
heir eyes to Louisiana which the
,olph Committee had apparently adop-
e dand which was said to be working
he waste and destruction of many mil
ions of pounds of sugar of grade that
ould be sent into uses which would re-
ease much Of the better grades for the
aore delicate branches of sugar consump-
ion. There was even talk of a move :
nent to start a senatorial investigation .
f the international Sugar Committee if
omething was not done Immediately to
vert disastrous results to the low grade
ugar output of Louisiana.
The Milling bulk contract plan seems
o have been permanently sidetracked
Many believe it is dead. After several
meetings to reach an agreement no
lgreement has been reached and the
probability is that none will be
Planter and Sugar Manu-
Icturer.