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Domestic News
October 15, 1894
The Daily Texarkanian
Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas
What is this article about?
A New Orleans correspondent argues that Louisiana sugar cane planters can earn more than cotton, corn, or wheat farmers without bounties or duties, yielding $45 per acre versus $20 for cotton and less for others, but criticizes them for demanding excessive protections and avoiding personal labor.
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THEY WANT THE EARTH.
A correspondent of the Courier-Journal, writing from New Orleans, gives some facts in connection with the expenses of raising sugar cane and the profits derived from the crop, which clearly show that the sugar planter can get along without bounty. He shows that without bounty or protection of any kind the sugar planter can make more money than the cotton planter or the wheat farmer. He says:
"It can be easily demonstrated to the satisfaction of any fair minded man that the condition of the sugar planter would be much better than that of the cotton, corn or wheat grower without the bounty and with sugar duty free. It is admitted that the refineries can pay $2.25 a ton for cane without bounty or duty. They can pay that and make living profits manufacturing sugar. As stated above, one man can cultivate and cut ready for the refinery fifteen acres of cane a year. The average crop will not fall far short of twenty tons to the acre. Twenty tons to the acre at $2.25 a ton would bring $45. From fifteen acres of cane $675 would be realized.
In the cotton country the average amount gross realized from an acre of land per annum is not more than $20. The wheat farmer realizes gross from $6 to $7 an acre, and in the best corn country from $15 to $18 an acre is considered a good return. The expense of planting, cultivating, cutting and getting ready for delivery of an acre of cane is about one third more than the expense of planting, cultivating and picking an acre of cotton, about twice as much as expense of planting, cultivating and gathering an acre of corn, and about four times as much at the expense of planting, harvesting and getting ready for the mill an acre of wheat.
So it will be seen that taking the country over the cane grower, without any protection whatever, would realize better results to the tune of from 50 to 75 per cent than can be realized by any other class of agriculturists.
The trouble with the Louisiana sugar planter is that he wants the earth. He is conscientiously opposed to working himself or even to supervising the work of his plantation. It must be done by highpriced managers, superintendents and overseers. He must realize big returns for his outlays of cash and leisure time, and if any political party interferes with him in realizing such returns that party is going to find him arrayed against it."
A correspondent of the Courier-Journal, writing from New Orleans, gives some facts in connection with the expenses of raising sugar cane and the profits derived from the crop, which clearly show that the sugar planter can get along without bounty. He shows that without bounty or protection of any kind the sugar planter can make more money than the cotton planter or the wheat farmer. He says:
"It can be easily demonstrated to the satisfaction of any fair minded man that the condition of the sugar planter would be much better than that of the cotton, corn or wheat grower without the bounty and with sugar duty free. It is admitted that the refineries can pay $2.25 a ton for cane without bounty or duty. They can pay that and make living profits manufacturing sugar. As stated above, one man can cultivate and cut ready for the refinery fifteen acres of cane a year. The average crop will not fall far short of twenty tons to the acre. Twenty tons to the acre at $2.25 a ton would bring $45. From fifteen acres of cane $675 would be realized.
In the cotton country the average amount gross realized from an acre of land per annum is not more than $20. The wheat farmer realizes gross from $6 to $7 an acre, and in the best corn country from $15 to $18 an acre is considered a good return. The expense of planting, cultivating, cutting and getting ready for delivery of an acre of cane is about one third more than the expense of planting, cultivating and picking an acre of cotton, about twice as much as expense of planting, cultivating and gathering an acre of corn, and about four times as much at the expense of planting, harvesting and getting ready for the mill an acre of wheat.
So it will be seen that taking the country over the cane grower, without any protection whatever, would realize better results to the tune of from 50 to 75 per cent than can be realized by any other class of agriculturists.
The trouble with the Louisiana sugar planter is that he wants the earth. He is conscientiously opposed to working himself or even to supervising the work of his plantation. It must be done by highpriced managers, superintendents and overseers. He must realize big returns for his outlays of cash and leisure time, and if any political party interferes with him in realizing such returns that party is going to find him arrayed against it."
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Sugar Cane
Louisiana Planters
Agricultural Profits
Bounty Opposition
Crop Comparisons
Where did it happen?
Louisiana
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Louisiana
Event Details
Correspondent reports that sugar cane yields $45 gross per acre without bounty or duty, more profitable than cotton ($20/acre), wheat ($6-7/acre), or corn ($15-18/acre), despite higher costs; criticizes Louisiana planters for demanding protections and relying on managers instead of personal labor.