The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-02-29
PU BLISH WEEKLY BY
HENRY NJ. WHITNEY.

pounds each, and frOm which to the beach mile
distant, IL is carted for shipment To Honolulu.
Every rice plantation valley where the natives
cultivate it should De provided with such mill
for purchasing the grain from the growers and
putting IL up in marketable condition. The cur
rent price for paddy il two cents per pound, and
coolie rice, five cents.
Wool elbows n large increase for 1867, the
total export having been 400 III pounds. This,
under the heavy American duty, has all gone to
Europe, and it Is not included in the treaty
will continue to find n market there in future.
The quality Of our wool Is every year improving,
n great care has been taken by grazicrs to pro-
the best breeds, and some of the clips are
very fine. There are, however, but few as yet
engaged in wool growing; the principal among
them being, X. Mufitt, Mcs-rs. Cummings and
Judd on this island, +. Hofschiaeger ON Kauai,
His Majesty MOlokAi, Ills Honor T.. III. Allen
on KahoOlawe, and the Waimea Grazing Com
Iany on Hawaii.
The cultivation of this article, which for n
time promised to become permanent and remun-
cratiye, threatens To prove failure and to be
tirely abandoned, at least by the natives. Ii has
been found that the worms or caterpillars are
very destructive to the young and tender plants.
In some instances, fields have been destroyed five
or six times in succession by these insects, dis
eouaging the native growers, and compelling
them to abandon its cultivation. In other places,
where the plants have been more successful, the
cotton has been attacked and greatly injured by
the boil worm. Owing to these causes, it is not
unlikely that the cultivation of Sea Island Cotton
will be abandoned altogether. There are many
localities adapted to its growth, and were it free
frUm the ravages or these insects, it would prove
one of the best and most profitable articles that
can be grown here. The price paid for good Sea
Island Cotton in the seed has been, during 1867,
from five to seven cents, and when ginned il COM
mands twenty to twenty-fiv cents per pound.
Oranges
The entire crop Of this fruit appears to have
been consumed ON the islands. II has amounted
to probably not les than one million oranges.
Throughout KOna the blight, which has for so
many years proved q scourgc, still prevails, and
not one tenth of the trees there produce to any
extent In one Of the finest orchards in that die
trict, cuntaining over Eve thousand trees. not n
barrel Of fruit has been gathered. In other parts
of the group the blight has not been severe, and
in some localities very choice fruit is gathered.
The price has been SO cents per hundred ct the
orchards, and rs cents q SI.OO per hundred in
Honolulu.
There has been but little increase in the amount
exported the past year, the total being l27 $40
pounds. We estimate the whole crop ut 100000
pounds, the amount consumed being about the
me rs that exported The blight still affects
the coffee trees throughout the Islands, and so I
long as it asts, there can not BE any great in /
crease in the amount raised. Early in the year
1867 the price Of coffee ranged from l3 to Is
cents, but it has steadily declined and the pres
ent quotation IL IL Ia cents for fresh, and Is
cents for old. Most OF the coffee is now pro-
duced by natives, brought to market cUmparn-
lively fresh, and is therefore liable to shrinkagc
and loss in weight. Owing to the fresh condition I
in which il is sent away, KOna coffee has not
maintained the reputation it formerly had in
California, and is quoted among the lowest
priced in that market. This Is article that .
improves with age, and coffee should never be .
used for beverage when less than a year old. Its
virtue and strength increase with Its age.
Domestic Exports
The following table will exhibit the increase
and decrease in some Of the leading products for
the past twelve years: