The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-02

,nds have been found to yield, under favorable cur
umstances, 1000 pounds, and in some cases ooo'
ounds Der acre, 1000 pounds per acre is the highest
F., veraoe Weld for a series ofyears, which can be relieo
unon This calculation IL, $500 tons is the highest
,taI Weld, of which the Hawaiian Islands are caPa-
lie. This amount would supply population OF aoou'
OO. 1000, allowing the consumption to be ~ IDS. PEI
nnnm per capitum. To realise such a result would
eouire an invested capital of at least $3,OOO,OOo,
nd 900 laborers; and the gross income to the Islands
yould be about ST., 500, 900. The product of all the
limitations. now in operation on the Hawaiian Islands
yorked to their utmost capabilities, will not exceed
90 to 1000 tons. which is about q sixteenth of their
.stimated capabilities.
The hest soils for cane are found to be the rich, black,
rayellv loan or mould, of the bottom or table lands.
ide hills or plains with considerable inclination,
washed by the heavy rains, which fall during the
ginter season, are unproductive. A large proper
ion of the soil of the Islands is @ stiff clay-with q
,arcity of vegetable mould-easily pulverised by the
low, but afterwards becoming very compact and
ard, from the heavy rains and hot sun of summer.
n favorable seasons, such soils yield a fair crop of
liant canes; but a first or second crop Of ratoons can
eldom be obtained from them. The poorest soils for
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olor to the peroxide of iron. Cane grown upon such
oils is not renumerative, as the yield is very light,
md the sugar always of an inferior quality. 1t is
.,robable that such soils might be improved by mixing
With them sand, which is found in great abundance
ear the seaboard, and which consists of carbonate of
.me. 1t would render them more pulverent, and per-
APPS neutralize the oxides of iron. Lime is regarded
n oil countries as one of the best manures for cane.
There is no crop which requires higher cultivation
han that of cane. From canes poorly cultivated, no
kill of the manufacturer can make q good quality of
.ugar. 1t ia q common remark, that the manufacture
f sugar should commence in the field. After the
round is thoroughly prepared, the cane is usually
tainted in drills, formed by the pillow, as deep as the
oil will admit of. The drills are usually seven to
light feet apart, and two slips of cane of about
ighteen inches in length are laid side by side in the
ill, and covered to the depth of two to four inches,
he hills being about four feet apart. Five acres of
lir cane will replant one hundred acres. In Louisi-
ma twenty acres of best cane are required to plant
ne hundred acres. A these islands wild canes are
)metimes taken for plants; but more generally, the
lants are taken from the cane-felds, which have been
.mporarily abandoned. The comparatively large
uantity ofseed required in Louisiana, is owing to the
ane being longer jointed and to the imperfect de
elopments of the buds. Short jointed canes with
Tell developed buds, have been found to be the best
lants.
The process Of manufacture does not differ from
lat pursued in the West Indies. The mills in opera
on have iron rolls, generally four feet in length and
NO feet in diameter, The juice is received into
blong iron CHARTERS. where it is heated to the boiling
oint. lined, and afterwards evaporated in open ket-
les. Instead of hogsheads, the centrifugal separa-
Dts, recently introduced, are preferred Tor draining
he sugars. At the present price of labor, and allow
Ag ID per cont intereet vn tI.ooaP:t~l tho
ost of production does not vary much from 4 cents
err pound.
With suitable localities, experienced superinten-
ents and the requisite capital, and with the present
respect of fair prices for some years to come, there
an be no safer, or in the long run, better paying
usiness, than sugar growing at the Hawaiian
stands.