The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-12-09
LOcAL COMMERcI1L NIX.

The scEo0urr IT. " RuggEts, which aFTI'ei y NoiIcfy
under Command q that veteran son q Neptune, Capt Chad
wick, brought 4 full cargo u assorted merchandise from san
Francisco - Ns-s1- C.. Brewer ! Co. She Il OF about 100
tons. Of = pretty motel broad beam and very sharp, and seems
vel calculated nr 8 coaster. As We stated Last week, she ia
intended a. a regular packet between this port and Maizena,,
he harbor q The NIakee plantation
The ship FGiTight, which brought the New York newspaper
mail q Oct. I6, Is en- route for Hongkong. and viii sail for
that port to-day, taking freight and passengers.
Among the agricultural products, for which our soil is veil
adapted, but which have received hitherto very little attention.
are PEANUTS. The natives, on this ISLAND particularly, are
engaging IN the cultivation Of It more than formerly, as the
few Who have heretofore raised them have found them very
pgoftIb!e, mainly for home consumption. The Chinese shop
keepers are the principal buyers, and pay usually from 8 to 8
cents per pound. Peanuts grow very well yielding abuudanty,
and with about the same amount Of attention and care as
.~ee; potatoes, and require n warm sandy soil. We're it not
that California can produce much better nuts as cheariy as we
can, there might lie n steady market there, but We observe that
they are being cultivated quite extensively in the Southern
Counties Our native agriculturists may, therefore, soon fni
their crops, Il raised in large quanl,ies- becoming a drug in This
The New York and Eastern markets are supplied with pea
nuts mainly from North Carolina, where the fines, ones are
raised in the United States. In August last q sale Of 200
sacss Of these nuts in New York city realized 80 cents per
pOuni in currency A North Carolina paper gives some facts
regarding the cultivation Of this nut in that State, and its
yieLi, which wTl interest our readers.
For many years pas; ib= ground pea has been a most inpor-
tant element ia Commerce IN the Cape Fear couutry-tLc
aHnull expectation u the Northern States and Canada ccusii-
srsbiy exceeding 10000 bushels. a single planter in one Il
our Eastern states, obtained from it 4 yearly income Of $1,000.
lie "a sed from 81 70 80 bushels - the acre, ana cultivated five
acres 20 the hand, which at : l a busheI-the ordinary price.
though 81 Is was frrq1sntLy reaIzed-yie!ded an income Of
from s&SO 70 800 20 TIE hand Nc such result, under the old
system 70 labor, could b. obtained with the staples, on similar
saa- our cotton planters eoH:enieI themselves with a crop
JirLting from So q SIS Per acre, and l. was the summing up
On a large surface that gave a living result. The cultivation q
"a crop - very cay. and only the simplest implements arc r.
alired-hrrt the ptpg % break the land. and then simply ;ie
sweep and Seeding hoe4. The average crop, as We have stated,
- from hfy " seventy i've bushels on the acre, besides which
there VII DC leii IN the ground enough 10 htt=n one huEdrei
pound q pork The vine, when tie pea is removed. makes
an excellent forage for catur-ssid TO lie equal to th- best
SoI;hsrE hay. From tie net IS expressed a most valuable oil.
During tie var just closed, this oil Wa universally used ia cur
machine-S1ops, and IL. luhhcstOry properties are pronounced
~ competent authorities 10 he superior 70 tk0.e 81 whale oil.
10 thu reason that Z: DOES not gum az all. One % the qualities
- thu OIL : eStensivey employed In the composition q ned
.e.les- another : used br burning purpose, and pa-scs.es tLe
vLtus % not smoking. SEils = third Iuakes 4 really excellent
salad ronlimsut- such, ai 81 varied and important, arr TIL
uses q wEch this sinpI- pFodGct can - devotei-us.s which
te urirasTuzf. Who have I-rhaT= regarded Il only A. an
tsdiEes;inIs ta.r, Eouii bessr suspect to pressed ir9 is
-1tivs.i-r.