Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1862-11-22
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CORRESPONDENCE. E.

if the slave owner at cents per ID for clean rice,
make fortune who raise rice by free labor, oughl
to do extremely well at cents per lb-the price that
South Carolina rice will in all likelihood command for
the next few years. Such rates g. 10, or ii cents
per h. are nothing but commercial phenomena and the
planter who would 60 to work only with such Irices in
vew will find himself eventually coming out at the lit
tie end of the horn. Rice planters want, rice plant
ers need, because rice planting will. considering the
yield per acre, bring money and distribute it
more generally over the islands than any other agri
cultural product that raise at present But if
we can clear hundred dollars from acre
of rice land per year, at the present high prices of rice,
certainly ought in time to consider the ways and
means by which we clear realize this generous
profit when rice will sell at only cents per h., the
reasonable and most probable value of rice The
consideration of this the object of my present
nication. 1 may be right, or may be wrong; what
ever may be the case hope least that this commu
nication will have the effect upon rice planters to
take into consideration the by which they may
be enabled realize good profits when rice is reduced
! in price.
This year that Sandwich Island has entered in
market Iconsder it but year general experimenting
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inferior none, quantity unprecedented in the
of In considering the ways and by
which rice, profitable lower prices,
ought consideration, fr second labor;
third labOrers.
Rice MHs.-The only rice mill capable present
in the market of the word
yet mill San Francisco The loss produced by huing
cleaning paddy estimated at 80 per third
every hundred pounds of paddy To bring rice
the bags
SO PC cleaning in other words p cents for
third bag hundred pound bag that contains the wibeot 3
pounds. Next, pay the freight the 80 T that
to be lost Next pay the = import dnty the
80 s that be lost and the Wharfage, drayage
storage, pay the per pound mill
charges commissions etc. All these drbbing
incur bring paddy into market in the shape of sale
rice, and all these expenses, with the exception OF mill
charges and commission might avoid had
islands mill mills that could do the work required If
merchants would make in the different countries
in Europe they send their paddy California
cleaned word the of mill excludes from
ry country except California being permitted
elect markets. tied the aprons strings of the
Pacific. would pay
per pound while any other market would
eight nine per pound, submit II San Francis
commands that shall raising rice have obey
orders, mercy
Of affairs say the least Of it, which rebounds very little
national honor We good mill mills of
We There attempts
tablish miIs-how many don't know. The mill of
dergast hu the rice in but long is
not cleaned still much excluded a
Let us hope that the ingenuity Of enterprng mill
will succeed in nvenng good cleaning apparatus and let
hope they will succeed inventing apparatus
will hull and clean with third less of the which
the grower present The miller can
the paddy with the least of loss will grasp the
2 Ldb0r-The land that till yet has put
has been the wild overgrown neglected
land The labor of breaking cleaning expensive
New bitches had to be made old repaired much labor
expended eveling The
wild lands aborious expensive Hence
forth the labor and the reclaimed land will
much essened Much land that before reclamation
only by process Of
spade and hand be laid dry pillow
do its speedier work. But still of opinion
cura labor and much in the of raising
and harvesting For instance planted patch
yards The expenses of transpanng s 5O
Of cutting hreshng and tanning s 62 The
yield Al II pounds While newly reclaimed patches
far from being level the of transpanng
good many instances the only crop.
countries India Japan the Philippines China the
price of labor extremely low anplantng undoubtedly
best method, and such may the small native
growers. In the United staos grown excu-
transpanting attempted On the
Mississippi broadcast In sown
drills To do either sowing or the drill sowing
it that the ground should perfectly level
being level the saving of labor and expense
that we worth the attention planters
the above 1000 yards broadcast would have taken less than
half hour; perhaps
taken half day. and the saving Of would have
been about GIL while the saving time would have been six
days Where the soil soft mud broadcast sowing would he
affar dav
wo would become of consistency to the wheels of the
seed-sower sowing would be preferable Some time
Messrs Brewer Co. had hand small kind OF seedsOwe
cheap implement very handy and well adapted II
saving the Of transplanng Alone from
$40 s2 per acre. we'll worth attention OF grow
Now regards harvesting The OF reapng
with the sickle suppose must he adhered to- Harvesting with
sickle requires proficiency. Our green
handled sickle their lives Of
and the slower the expensive; but
that few shall have aborers that reap
what it them two days reap-a result that will
cheaper expenses OF harvesting considerably process
of threshing performed boxes generally the
and place where the harvesting done The box thrsh
ing under the circumstances convenient
adopted but it is expensive When the expenses harvesting
the expenses hrehing thererom may
be safely down So Besides slow process. The
who intends business OF planting rice who in
rice planter, should by all means
throw aside and business in the most
hable He should proceed erect spacisus barn
with substantial hrehing and nstea Of box theshng
import threshing machine of size to correspond with h
The consequence would be reduction Of thar
half Of the expenses For example, planter employs
hands harvesting After all have been cutting for hour
wo twelve left respng, while eight thresh
ing II the farmer has good barn. he
derstands build scientific that is good round stack
substantial cap he could ths employ all
y hands reapng and have his safely slowed away
hes threshing he proceed with his reaping