Woman's enterprise., 1921-11-18

ing of yore. There are crumbllns
brick walls and rusty furnace doors
wide open that will glow with hidden
fires no more. Great brick chimney
that look like watches over the past
and giant moss covered oak trees tina
seem to whisper 81 sheltered them'
sheltered them"
Below Baton Rouge on the famous
Armand Villas de Duplantier place
that entertained Prince Murat and
LAFAYETTE and Dumontier in its DAY
stand a row of the open kettles on
their brick pedestal. The walls have
fallen, the sad oaks wave requlh'
the chimneys watch, and the kettles
stand like magic cauldrons Of old, on
ly they are rusty now with many WIN
ter rains, and spirits may rise IN
the night time and whisper the tales
of the past.
And later yet the great "Centrals
have to be fed from "all the land
about" "The mills of the Gods" have
stopped "grinding slowly 1t takes
as many or more wagons out in the
fields to supply the dummy trains
with cane than it used to do the haul
ing of the plantation. These trains
stop at stations on the plantation to
load, and they run in to the side OF
the carrier, where the side of the car
is let down, and great iron hands run
by machinery straighten OUT the stalk
| for the rollers, it takes two men al
the carriers where it used to take
twenty or thirty. At few places
where they use wagons to bring tne
cane in, a great iron arm, or derrick
reaches down, takes the whole load on
the wagon, and deposits it on the car
rier. Before the cane is loaded, tw'
great chains are thrown on the wagol
the cane is put in from each end, 81
that it crosses in the middle and i
is by these chains that the "hand'
holds them.
Now there is no more fascinating
tasting" or watching" the julc'
boil, or the big wooden drying troughs
but from the time you can follow tn
carriers up to the rollers, you ma
come out on the other side OF tn
sugar house and see the cane yo'
saw going up, whirl for few second
in the fairy like "centrifugap AM
then the snow white sugar, barrelle'
and sent out, as the case may be t.
i the chartered boat or cars awaiting
lit.
il l have eaten the candy, made il
St. Louis, at the St. Clair refinery o
cane that two weeks before wa
standing in all its green and purpl
splendor about the white walls o.
what looks like a little white city, S
Clair Central below Baton Rouge.
! The old rollers are called crusher
now, and from them the juice goes ou
:, into enormous tanks about twent
!, feet long and ten feet wide, pumpe
> from then into the CHARTERS, wher
lime and sulphur are run into tn
, juice to clean it, clarified again, an
: then pumped into the double effect
j.. The dirt left from this process
, passed through the filter presses, 8
: last, what is left of over used for fe1
e tilizers. After the juice is all cooke
a down to syrup in the double ettec
: made into sugar in the vacuum par
$ and then let into the mixer, a Ion
i deep iron vessel with paddles in tn
e bottom worked by machinery, to kee
e the sugar from getting too hard, wit
;, a capacity of about seventy-flVe oa'
d rels at a time. From the mixer 1t
ellet down to the centrifugals. ines
8 are huge copper "tubs" lined 1nsle
d with fine wire, which revolve h1tee
e hundred times per minute. The sues
maker stands besides them with
e syringe that he phys about once mil
" ute. Before your eyes, before ye
lean think, the great yellow oro"