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In studying the sugar industry, one is forced to emphasize the great good accomplished by the various organizations working in its interests.
Before the war, the "Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Louisiana," which had for a time as its vice president the eminent jurist and planter, Judge P. A. Rost (father of our Judge Emil Rost, "a noble son of a noble sire"), held its
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annual fairs, and "had its committee upon the sugar industry," which made its annual report. From these very full reports, one can easily discern the immense stimulus and assistance given the planters of the State by this organization.
But the organization which perhaps has accomplished the greatest good to the sugar industry was brought into existence in 1877, by a call from the leading planters of the State. It was named the "Sugar Planters' Association," of which Mr. Duncan F. Kenner was its first president, Hon. John Dymond its second, and Judge Emil Rost its present and third president. This association has held monthly meetings, discussing every phase of progress, and its publications have been productive of immense benefit to the planters of this and other lands. The present officers of the Sugar Planters' Association are as follows: President, Judge Emil Rost; First Vice President, Henry McCall; Second Vice President, L. M. Soniat ; Third Vice President, G. G. Zenor ; Treasurer, W. B. Schmidt ; Secretary, R. Dykers; Executive Committee, Dr. W. C. Stubbs, W. B. Schmidt, John N. Pharr, John Dymond, W. J. Thompson.
Next in order of time was the "Sugar Exchange" of New Orleans, whose building adapted to the wants of a modern exchange, was completed and dedicated on June 3d, 1884. Mr. Edward J. Gay was its first president, and Mr. D. D. Colcock its first secretary. To this exchange has been transferred the business formerly transacted on the levee, and here the buyers and sellers meet daily for the purpose of trade in sugar, syrup and molasses.
The Exchange has had several presidents, but Mr. D. D. Colcock continues to be its secretary, and to his statistical information, rare intelligence and fearless action, much of the success of the Exchange is due. Mr. Colcock has also rendered invaluable service to the sugar industry by his able presentation of the tariff issues before the Congress of the United States. Mr. J. C. Murphy is at present president of the Sugar Exchange.
Under the influence and through the appointment of a committee by the Sugar Planters' Association, the "Louisiana Scientific and Agricultural Associa- tion" was formed in 1885, which started the Sugar Experiment Station. For four years it was located at Kenner, La. Ten years ago it was moved to its present location, Audubon Park, New Orleans, La. This station has experimented in the field, laboratory and sugar house, and has published its results in numerous bulletins. It has covered every question pertaining to the sugar industry and aided in every development. It has been recognized by the State, and it is now Station No. 1 of the Louisiana State University and A. & M. College. Dr. W. C.
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Stubbs is and has been its director. He has a full corps of assistants. Mr. John Dymond is president of the Louisiana Scientific and Agricultural Association, which owns and controls the Sugar Experiment Station.
The same association started in 1891 the AUDUBON SUGAR SCHOOL, for the pur- pose of making experts in the sugar industry. It has been successfully conducted and its graduates are now found filling responsible positions in almost every sugar country. It has recently been adopted by the State and made a part of the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, where, in connection with Sugar Ex- periment Station at Audubon Park, a most thorough course of four years of scientific and practical instruction is given.
The Sugar Bowl, a journal devoted to the sugar interests of Louisiana, was started thirty years ago, and has since made weekly visits to the planters of the State. A few years ago its name was changed to "The Sugar Planters' Journal." It is edited by J. Y. Gilmore, and is published at 520 Poydras street, New Orleans.
Twelve years ago, to meet the growing demands of the planters, a company was formed for the purpose of starting a first-class scientific and practical weekly journal devoted to the growth of sugar cane and its manufacture into sugar. This paper was called "The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer," and has been ably edited by Mr. John Dymond, assisted by Dr. W. C. Stubbs, Mr. W. W. Pugh (the veteran sugar planter of Louisiana), and Mr. Wibray J. Thompson.
This journal is now the leader of sugar thought in the world and goes in large numbers weekly to every sugar country. Its success is due to its able editor, Mr. John Dymond, who is also president of the State Agricultural Society, presi- dent of the Louisiana Scientific and Agricultural Association, and State Senator in our Legislature. Mr. Dymond has perhaps done as much to advance the sugar and other agricultural interests as any man in the South.
A few years ago, "The Sugar Growers' Association" of this State was formed for the purpose of securing proper protection to sugar. Its membership includes nearly every planter in the State. Its president is Mr. Charles A. Farwell, of Milliken & Farwell, and its secretary is Mr. D. D. Colcock. It is doing yeoman service in properly protecting the sugar industry of this country at Washington.
There are numerous planters, factors and brokers that are to-day prominent in the sugar industry and who are deserving of special mention here, but neither time nor space will permit it. To them we make the following closing remarks :
The extent to which the production of sugar can be carried on in Louisiana is appreciated by but few of us, but we who reflect on the subject and feel such a
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deep interest in all that concerns the prosperity of this State, foresee with exulta- tion the day not far distant when boundless tracts, now covered with marsh or primeval forests, shall teem with plenteous harvests of the cane, when central fac- tories shall manufacture it into the purest sugars-yea, in a word, when the in- dustry and enterprise of our people shall succeed in developing to their full extent the resources which a bounteous Providence has lavished on this favored State. Then, let us hope, some future historian will do justice to our lives and services.
CLOSING REMARKS.
Taking a retrospective view of the sugar industry of Louisiana for the last fifteen or twenty years, it can be said with truth that there is no industry in the world that has made such progress. The organization of the Sugar Planters' Asso- ciation, in 1877, may be regarded as the starting point of the renaissance of the sugar industry. Since that time the Sugar Experiment Station has been estab- lished, whose teachings and experiments have illuminated the field and the factory. The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer has been started, whose weekly visit to the home of every planter, manager, overseer, sugarmaker, etc., carries with it information upon every subject pertaining to the agriculture of sugar cane and the chemistry and manufacture of sugar. The Sugar Exchange has been created in New Orleans, where the products of the plantation are quickly sold. Improved implements for breaking the soil and for the cultivation of cane, have been in- troduced and almost universally used. Improvement of soils and crops, both by scientific rotation of crops, involving the nitrogen gathering cow pea, and the exten- sive use of commercial fertilizers, whose purity and guarantee are sustained by chemical analysis made by official chemists, without cost, are everywhere in evidence. Tonnage has been increased, and the cost of growing cane materially reduced.
Small sugar houses are fast disappearing, and enormous factories with every modern labor and fuel saving apparatus, are to be found in every section. The output of sugar, both per acre and per ton of cane, has been greatly increased. New lands are being opened and old plantations better drained and cultivated. In fact, "expansion" in the cultivation of sugar cane in Louisiana and other Southern States, and sugar factories in the "expansion," is the only kind favored by the sugar planters of the South. Thousands of acres of land well adapted to the growth of sugar cane, are available in Louisiana, Texas and other Southern States. Capital alone is wanted to develop them and build the necessary factories. Every dollar made in the sugar industry since the war, has gone into sugar houses and the im-
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provement of lands. Over $100,000,000 have thus been invested. The acreage devoted to sugar cane is yearly increasing, the present year will doubtless witness the harvesting of cane from over 300,000 acres. The crop of 1897 brought about $35,000,000, and gave employment directly and indirectly to nearly a half a million of people. Every dollar received was exchanged for labor, material, provisions and clothes. This large sum is paid out as fast as received, and a portion of it doubtless finds its way to every State in the Union, thus creating an inter-State commerce of nearly seventy millions of dollars.
Our machinery comes largely from Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Alabama, New York and Illinois, for which we pay $6,000,000. To Mississippi and Louisiana we send, for lumber and bricks, $600,000. Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana draw on us annually, for mules and horses, over $1,000,000. The coal and oil furnished us by Pennsylvania, Alabama and West Virginia, cost annually $1,500,000. Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas give us our daily bread at an annual cost of $3,000,000. Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa feed our stock, but charge yearly for the same another $3,000,000. West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky give us our wagons, carriages and agricultural implements, at the modest sum of $500,000. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska furnish us with meats, lard, etc., for $3,000,000. Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana butter our bread and give us cheese for luncheon, but require in return $500,000. Texas, Mis- sissippi and Alabama, to say nothing of the refrigerator beef from the West, available only at our towns and cities, supply us with steaks, roasts and stews, and though at times they are quite inferior, cost the modest sum of $500,000. Alabama has a monopoly on the supply of lime for our sugar houses and for building purposes, and accordingly draws on us annually for $500,000. The cooperage for our sugar houses descends the great "Father of Waters" in flatboats, from Ohio, Indiana and Illi- nois, and annually mulcts the planters of $1,000,000.
It is a custom here to sow cow peas upon one-third of our lands yearly, using at the rate of two bushels per acre, requiring nearly a quarter of a million of bushels annually, for which we send to Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee and pay from $1.25 to $3.50 per bushel. Both our plant and stubble canes are fertilized regularly ; therefore we send to Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Mis- souri, Nebraska and Louisiana for phosphates, cotton seed mcal and tankage, and credit them by cash paid, $1,000,000.
Our boots and shoes are made in Boston, St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, etc., and our shoemakers charge us $2,500,000 per year. We are clothed by New
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York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and as we all wear good clothes, we pay over $5,000,000 annually for them. If any money be left us we spend it in notions, fruits and sundries, which are gathered from Maine to California.
The above is not a mere guess, but is a calculation based, after careful investi- gation, upon facts which abundantly justify every enumeration made. With this wide distribution of the money coming from the sugar industry of Louisiana,, is there a citizen of any section of this Union that does not enjoy some benefit from it, directly or indirectly ?
SUGAR PLANTATIONS OF LOUISIANA, WITH STATISTICAL DATA OF THEIR PLANTATIONS.
BY J. P. SMITH.
In preparing this table we are indebted to J. Y. Gilmore, Esq., for the use of his Sugar Journal. The matter was originally compiled for the tabular form, but from the mechanical necessity required by the character of this work we are obliged to print it in the form here adopted. The items, as they occur in succession, are generally self-explanatory. First is the name of the owner, then that of the plantation, post-office address, acreage, style of apparatus, daily capacity in tons, annual output and variety of cane grown.
ASCENSION PARISH.
Ayraud, H. T. & F. C. Sleepy Hollow. Barton.
Babin, Leon. Donaldsonville.
Barton, W. I. Riverside. Donaldsonville. 1,000 acres, 900 cult. Modern, up to date. Electric lighting. Daily capacity, 300 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 1,800,000 pounds. Ribbon.
Barton, E. H. St. Emma. Barton. 1,300 acres. Modern. Daily capacity, 500 tons. Average annual output of sugar-house, 2,500,000 pounds. Red.
Berthelot, V. & J. A. Chatham. Hohen Solms.
Brown & Gondran. Linwood. Belle Helene. 800 acres, 500 cult. Sells cane. Red. Belle Helene Planting Co., Ltd. (G. B. Reuss, Pres. ; J. C. Klos, Sec.) Ashland,
Bowden and Texas. Belle Helene. 2,447₺ acres. Modern, up to date. Elec- tric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 600 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 5,000,000 pounds. Red.
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Brown, C. C., widow. Eulalia. Hope Villa.
Bourgeois, F. Cottage Farm. Belle Helene.
Dixon, Elisha D. Willow Grove. Hope Villa.
Gramercy Sugar Factory Co. Mt. Houmas. Geismar.
Humphreys, J. B. Southwood and Riverside. Geismar.
Haydel, Joseph. Gem. Darrow.
Jacobs, Arthur & Bro. Stella. Donaldsonville. 1,300 acres, 900 cult. Diffusion process. Electric lighting. Daily capacity, 300 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 1,000,000 pounds; of sugar-house, 1,500,000 pounds. Red and Ribbon.
Landry, Abelard. Babin. Smoke Bend. 500 acres, all cult. Open train. Electric lighting. Daily capacity, 200 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 750,000 pounds. Red.
Landry, R. O. Delicia. Smoke Bend.
Duffel, Judge Henry L. Woodstock. Smoke Bend. 400 acres, all cult. Rents his plantation. Average annual output of plantation, 500,000 pounds. Red. Lemann, B. & Bro. Souvenir, Palo Alto, Perseverance, Crescent and Pentavin. Donaldsonville. 7,941 acres, 5,487 cult. Modern. Narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 550 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 10,000,000 pounds; of sugar-house, 10,000,000 pounds. Red. (Data includes plantations in Assumption parish.)
McCall & Legendre. McManor. McCall. 1,100 acres, 850 cult. Modern. Nar- row-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 350 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 2,000,000 pounds. Red.
McCall Bros. Planting & Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Evan Hall. McCall. 3,500 acres, 3,000 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 800 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 6,000,000 pounds. Red.
Hermitage Planting & Manufacturing Co. Hermitage. Darrow. 2,200 acres, 1,800 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 700 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 3,000,000 pounds ; of sugar-house, 3,750,000 pounds. Red and Purple.
Marchand, Alex. Willow Grove. Darrow.
Morgan, U. E. Rearwood. Darrow.
Nolan, J. T. St. Elizabeth. Donaldsonville.
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The Miles Planting & Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Dr. W. P. Miles, Pres .; S. B. Miles, Vice Pres .; H. C. Eustis, Sec. & Treas.) Monroe, Conway, Orange Grove, Donaldson, Riverton, Rearwood and Clark. Burnside. 7,977 acres, 6,483 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 1,000 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 9,000,000 pounds ; of sugar-house, 9,000,000 pounds. Red.
The Miles Planting & Manufacturing Co., Ltd. New Hope, Ascension. McCall. 1,506 acres cult. Modern, up-to-date. 500 tons daily capacity. 3,000,000 pounds average annual output of the plantation. 4,500,000 pounds average annual output of sugar-house. Red. Narrow-gauge railroad and electricity used for lighting.
Picard & Geismar. Waterloo. Geismar.
Raphael, Pierre. Susanna. Gonzales.
Reuss, G. B. Germania, Home, Elise. Hohen Solms. 2,500 acres, 2,000 cult. Modern, up-to-date; electricity used for lighting, and narrow-gauge railroad. 500 tons daily capacity. Average annual output of plantation, 3,000.000 pounds. Red.
St. Martin, Captain J. E. Arlington and Pelico. McCall.
Webster, Mrs. J. S. Point Houmas. Cofield. 950 acres, 829 cult. Steam train and vacuum pan. 400 tons daily capacity. 940,000 pounds average annual output of plantation. Red. Electricity for lighting.
IBERVILLE PARISH.
Adler, A. & Co. Rebecca. Plaquemine. 825 acres, 600 cult. Modern. 700 tons daily capacity. Average annual output of plantation, 1,500,000 pounds ; of sugar-house, 5,500,000 pounds. Purple. Electricity for lighting and narrow- gauge railroad.
Behan, W. J. Alhambra. White Castle. 1,300 acres. Modern, up-to-date. Elec- tricity for lighting, and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 600 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 3,000,000 pounds. Cuban.
Berthelct, V. & J. A. Claiborne, Old Hickory and Cannonburg. Hohen Solms. Bethancourt & Sentilles. Forest Home. Bayou Goula.
Billou, O. D. Upper Eimer. Bayou Goula.
Barrow & Le Blanc. Star Pecan. Plaquemine. 700 acres, all cult. Steam train, open kettle. Daily capacity, 200 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 900,000 pounds; of sugar-house, 1,500,000 pounds. Red and White.
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Brown, I. D., heirs. Manchac. Sunshine. 1,362 acres, 900 cult. Steam train, open kettle. Daily capacity, 175 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 600,000. Striped.
Brun, Mrs. F. Revenue. Island.
Browne, H. S., widow. St. Gabriel. St. Gabriel.
Brown & Hebert. Hermitage. Sunshine.
Comeaux, R. G. Mayflower and York. Plaquemine. 540 acres, all cult. Steam train, open kettle. Daily capacity. 200 tons. Average annual output of plan- tation, 750,000 pounds ; of sugar-house, 1,000,000. Red and White.
Duval, C. Mespilus. Plaquemine.
Damare, A. & G. Oakley. St. Gabriel. 1,400 acres, 700 cult. Steam train, vacuum pan. Daily capacity, 175 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 750,000. Red.
Folse, L. N. Texas. White Castle. 1,104 acres, 800 cult. Open kettle, steam train, with centrifugal. Electricity for lighting. Daily capacity, 250 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 750,000 pounds. Red.
Gueymard, H. Hard Times. Island.
Guyton, J. T. The Oaks. Bayou Goula.
Gay, E. J., Planting and Manufacturing Co., Ltd. St. Louis, Tennessee, True Hope, Centennial, Little California. Plaquemine. 5,000 acres, 4,000 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electricity for lighting, and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily ca- pacity, 1,000 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 5,000,000 pounds. Red and Striped.
Gay, Andrew H. Union and Homestead. Plaquemine. 3,500 acres, 2,300 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electricity for lighting. Daily capacity, 600 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 4,000,000 pounds ; of sugar-house, 4,500,- 000. Red and Striped.
Gay, Andrew H. Augusta, Shady Grove, Live Oak and West Oak. Plaquemine. 3,500 acres, 1,200 cult. Open, steam train. Daily capacity, 350 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 2,500,000 pounds. Red and Striped.
Hanlon, Maurice. Magnolia and Eurcka. Bayou Goula. 1,300 acres, 900 cult. Modern. Electricity for lighting. Daily capacity, 250 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 1,250,000. Red.
Humphrey, J. B. Rescue. Island.
Holloway & Postell. Evergreen. Plaquemine.
Iberville Planting & Manufacturing Co. Anandale and Cora. White Castle.
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2,800 acres, 1,590 cult. Sells cane. Average annual output of plantation, 4,000,000 pounds. Red.
Jollissaint, Joseph Jr. Greenback. Sunshine.
Jackson, Mitchell. Restalrig. Plaquemine.
Levert, Amedée. Golden Ridge. Soulouque.
Le Blanc, Simon. Monticello. St. Gabriel. 800 acres, 600 cult. Open kettle, centri-
fugal. Daily capacity, 150 tons. Average annual output plantation, 600,000 pounds. Red.
Landry, Theo. Lucky. Sunshine.
Lorio, A. G. St. Elizabeth. Bayou Goula. 478 acres, 425 cult. Open kettle, steam train. Daily capacity, 110 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 500,000 pounds. Red and Striped.
Landry & Dugas. Nottaway. Bayou Goula. 1,300 acres, 900 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Daily capacity, 400 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 1,250,000 pounds. Red and Ribbon.
Leche, E. D. Dunboyne. Bayou Goula.
Labarre, Nelson. Euphrozine. White Castle. 140 acres, 130 cult. Sells cane. Average annual output of plantation, 225,000 pounds. Red.
Le Blanc & Danos. Milly. Plaquemine. 1,140 acres, 750 cult. Steam train, open kettle. Daily capacity, 250 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 1,000,000 pounds; of sugar-house, 1,335,000 pounds. Red, White and Striped. Lozano, Louis. Reliance. Plaquemine. 500 acres, all cult. Modern. Daily capacity, 200 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 600,000 pounds. Red.
Murrell (Geo. M.) Planting & Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Tally Ho, St. Marie, Glenmore and Augusta. Bayou Goula. 7,700 acres, 3,500 cult. Modern, up- to-date. Electricity for lighting, and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 800 tons. Ribbon and Purple.
Martin, L. J. Bayou Paul. Iberville.
Milliken, Mrs. D. A. Point Clear. Bayou Goula. 500 acres, all cult. Open pan. Daily capacity, 150 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 500,000 pounds ; of sugar-house, 500,000 pounds. Red.
Marionneaux, Edwin. Belfort. Plaquemine.
Marionneaux, widow. Holly Farm, Plaquemine.
Manville & Robert. Irion. Plaquemine.
O'Neil, W. J. Margaret. St. Gabriel.
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Ourso, A. & J. H. Ella. Soulouque.
Peterson, M. P. Long Point. Plaquemine.
Plaisance, Alfred. Palo Alto. St. Gabriel.
Richard, O. Golden Gate. Sunshine. 300 acres, all cult. Open kettle, steam train. Daily capacity, 100 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 335,- 000. Red.
Roth & McWilliams. Medora. Plaquemine. 800 acres, all cult. Open kettle, steam train. Daily capacity, 125 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 500,000 pounds. Red and White.
Randolph. M. L. Blythewood. Bayou Goula.
Robertson & Bros. Hunter Lodging. Plaquemine.
Robertson, F. D. Homestead.
Reuss, John, Planting Co., Ltd. Allemania. Greenfield, Retreat and Lower Eimer. Soulouque. 1,800 acres, 1,000 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Narrow- gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 350 tons. Average annual output of planta- tion, 1,500,000 pounds; of sugar-house, 2,000,000. Red.
Saunders, Gus & Co. Golden Ridge. Bayou Goula.
Supple, J., Sons Planting Co., Ltd. Catherine, Richland and Kinsale. Bayou Goula. 2,580 acres, 2,100 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 550 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 4,000,000 pounds. Red and Striped.
Soniat, L. M. Cedar Grove. Dorceyville. 2,500 acres, 2,000 cult. Modern, up- to-date. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 700 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 3,500,000 pounds; of sugar-house, 5,000,000 pounds. Red.
Tuttle, Mrs. J. S. Laurel Ridge. White Castle. 1,000 acres, 760 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electric lighting. Daily capacity, 500 tons. Average annual out- put of plantation, 1,500,000 pounds. Red.
Thiry, C. A., widow, 100-mile Point. St. Gabriel.
Thibodcaux, O. Oliva. Plaquemine.
Trahan & Daigle. Aloysia. Dorceyville. 600 acres, all cult. Modern. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 400 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 1,250,000 pounds. Red and Ribbon.
Ventress, W. W. & J. A. Magnolia. St. Gabriel. 400 acres, 350 cult. Sells cane. Average annual output of plantation, 750,000 pounds. Red and Ribbon. Ventress Bros. & Locke. Grenada. Sunshine. 1,200 acres, 800 cult. Modern.
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Electric lighting. Daily capacity, 300 tons. Average annual ouput of plan- tation, 2,000,000 pounds ; of sugar-house, 3,000,000 pounds. Red.
Ware, Hon. James A. Belle Grove. White Castle. 3,100 acres. Modern, up-to- date. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 600 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 2,500,000 pounds. Creole.
Wilbert's (A.) Sons' Planting & Manufacturing Co. Myrtle Grove, Star, Enter- prise, Crescent. Plaquemine. 5,600 acres, 2,500 cult. Modern, up-to-date. Electric lighting and narrow-gauge railroad. Daily capacity, 600 tons. Aver- age annual output of plantation, 3,000,000 pounds; of sugar-house, 4,000,000 pounds. Red and Striped.
Magilliard, Dr. Unice. Donaldsonville. 800 acres, 400 cult. Open kettle. Daily capacity, 100 tons. Average annual output of plantation, 500,000 pounds. Red.
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