The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-03-02


This table gives thirty-three plantations in
operation or getting ready. Thirty of which
report ten thousand two hundred and ~sixty-six
acres planted with cane. and the monthly ex-
penses $40 ,9!7. The capital invested, including
two estates not reported in the above, is over
two millions of dollars.
The effort now being made by the San Fran
cisco Refinery, to enter into contracts with Ha-
waiian planters for Il portion of the sugar crop
of these islands for refinery use, will undoubtedly
prove successful, and tend 10 secure for our
sugars the first place in that market. We
possess so many natural advantages for supplying
California, and indeed the entire North West
Coast, that it should be an object with our
planters To secure that market even at Il tempo
ry sacrifice. The contracts are understood to
be for one year, the sugars to be delivered in
Honolulu to the agents of the refinery, Messrs.
Iiackfeld & Co. One effect of this change in
the manufacture of sugar will be to cut off the
demand for sugar kegs, both imported and
domestic, as the new sugars will be put up in
bags as are the East Indian sugars.
Other Agricultural Products.
Rice has been extensively cultivated during
1866, and with very good success. The prin-
cipal places where it is grown are Punaluu,
Waikane and Laie on this island and Waimea on
Kauai. At the former place, where some 800
tons are raised, the paddy is t%hreshed, hulled and
polished by machinery. driven by water power.
This plantation is very complete in its arrange
ments for producing the finest quality of rice.
The rice produced in other districts is mostly
brought to Honolulu, where it is cleaned at the
Ill r IL Dl II uu -
by the Chinese coolies, foreign and
Hawaiian population is wholly of domestic
growth. Little or none is imported. The en-
tire crop for 1866 is estimated at one million
pounds of cleaned rice, of which 43S .367 pounds
were exported.
WoOL.-Less wool has been exported during
the past year than for several years previous.
The low price ruling abroad has had Il depressing
on the growth of this industry. The
establishment of a wooden factory here would
give an impetus to the business, and find u
liberal support.
CoTToN.-Our table Of exports. published else
where in this issue, show the amount sent away
in 1866 to have been double that of the previous
year. Considerable attention was directed to
the cultivation of this article by natives and
i'ANAch|4N 'AAiA ~ hAN NNhA H"L HihNA'h AtAifL
planted to produce over 200, 900 pounds of seed
cotton, but between the worms and the drought,
a large portion of it was lost, and the entire
WELD did not exceed so 600 pounds in the seed.
This was wholly of the choice Sea Island variety,
finds Il market in England and France.
small tracts of land on each of tine island
are well adapted to the growth of this staple,
but the fact that we have no agriculturists of
the requisite knowledge and means to engage
in it, is the principal reason why it shows 50
little growth. What increase there has been is
wholly attributable to a few persevering natives,
some of whom have done very we'll.
CoFFEE-Our statistics show a decline in the
crop. rs the exports were only about one-third
those of 1865. The blight which has attacked
the coffee tree for the past ten years, still con-
.inucs, and threatens To still further reduce it.
~ remedy has been found to prevent or destroy
he blight. and until this Is done, CT it passes
of its own accord, the prospects Of coffee
will remain poor.
ORANGEs.-The same trouble affects more or
rSs the orange crop, which tlrives best in the
anne localities as the coffee. The total sumber ,
f oranges exported during the year has been
$50 900. But the home consumption is
equal to the number exported. The
rees now growing in Kona are capable of pro- !
.ucing one million of oranges, and would pro-
ably yield that number did not the blight
nnually destroy half or three-fourths of the
before maturity.
In other agricultural products. there has been
bout the usual success met in former years.
he supply Is intended mainly for home con
the excess finding a foreign market.
or most articles, however, our home market is '
very limited one, and until our population t
bows some decided increase, there can be no t