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Formerly, it was a tolerably easy method, but of late, 

 there are so many hundreds of persons whose whole in- 

 come is derived from this source, besides the great 

 amount required by plantations, that the supply is hardly 

 sufficient to meet the demand, and a great deal of very 

 poor stuff is now caught with avidity, that, in those good 

 old times of plenty, would have been despised. 



On my way, I called on my old friend and acquaintance, 

 David Adams. ^ As is the general custom among the plant- 

 ers in the "rolling season," he eats and sleeps in the sugar 

 house. I am well satisfied that the "Mayor of Pittsburg," 

 who is a brother of Mr. Adams, did not enjoy a more 

 pleasant dinner than was our sugar-house fare that day. 

 Mr. A. says that he made 60 bushels of corn to the arpent 

 upon one piece, this year, of a choice white kind, by ma- 

 nuring and deep plowing, which is three times the usual 

 crop. His molasses cisterns are of cement, plastered di- 

 rectly upon the pit dug in the earth, which he thinks pref- 

 erable to brick work. As he has had to catch or buy fuel, 

 he has made a part of his crop this season, as an experi- 

 ment, with Pittsburg coal, and is well satisfied with the 

 result. He mixes a small portion of wood under his ket- 

 tles with the coal, which he thinks should always be done. 

 Out of the many planters and farmers, whose early life 

 was spent in other pursuits and who afterwards made 

 successful tillers of the soil, although mere book farmers, 

 Mr. A. may justly be ranked. 



Among other enterprising and improving Creole plant- 

 ers, Mons. Boudousquie,^ below Mr. Adams', deserves 



^ David Adams, owner of a sugar plantation forty-six miles 

 above New Orleans, later known as New Hope. Used the most 

 improved equipment. Map of Plantations on the Mississippi River; 

 Champomier, Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana, 

 1849; Pike, Coast Directory; "Directory of the Planters of 

 Louisiana and Mississippi," in Cohen's New Orleans Directory, 

 1855, p. 313. 



^ Antoine Boudousquie, owner of an extensive sugar plantation 

 in St. John the Baptist Parish, known as Reserve. Used im- 

 proved machinery. Boudousquie was born in New Orleans about 

 1803, graduated from the old University of New Orleans, served 



