Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-07-26 | Page 6 | Sugar Cane Introduced by Jesults

Sugar Cane Introduced by Jesuits. Sugar was first made in Louisiana In 1751 by the Jesuit fathers from San Domingo. The cane grew well, but all attempts at-tempts to manufacture sugar from It were abortive, and it was not until 1791 that Don Antonio Mendez succeeded suc-ceeded in extracting sugar from cane. Three years later Etienne de Bore made such a large crop of sugar that many were induced to go into the industry, in-dustry, and it is to him that the real credit of being the father of the industry in-dustry belongs. In common with all industries In the experimental stage, the sugar cane in. dustry of Louisiana was at Its Inception Incep-tion a very crude and unimportant one, but by 1S20 the crop approximated approxi-mated some 20.000,000 pounds of sugar.