The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-06-03
Correspondence Of the GAzrrrr.
Shall we increase our Products I?

it cannot be matter Of Indifference TO thinking
men, how the resources of the country may be IN
creased. Not only So but how shall an enor-
nous waste be stopped, and wealth already in the
country, now lost, be made source of profit.
There are many products Of our realm which,
owing to their perishable nature, have either
been dead loss, or for the want of market at
home and the impossibity of getting them in
good condition, into foreign market, have not
been EXTENSIVELY cultivated although they might
be produced with the greatest facility.
There is at Ii. present time large surplus of
cattle in the islands. Many thousands have been
slaughtered for their hides aud tallow only, and
the beef-the most valuable part thrown away
and many more remain to be lost in the same
manner, unless some way can be devised to pre-
vent the insane waste.
/ The banana, the surest crop produced IN these
islands, exists only in possibility, except to very
limited extent the only demand being for home
consumption, with always an uncertain sale, and
a few hundred lunches for vessels leaving our
shores, one half of which often perish before
reaching the coast
The cost Of cultivating an acre Of bananas is
about $50 1000 plants have plenty of room on
an acre Of ground. Thus the cost is, if nv
arithmetic is correct, five cents per bunch. A
very ordinary bunch Of bananas will weigh 20 lbs
Now find profitable and easy market for all this
elegant nutrition, aud you make things look up
at once.
The KalO-there is not a vegetable on earth
to equal it in the amount of nutrition per acre 1t
will produce, nor enc which answers so well the
demands Of the muscular frame. And yet, nav.
ing no unlimited demand small overplus kills
the profit Of raising it, owing to its perishable
nature and the next You know, people have neg
lected to plant, and there is dearth aud for
while it commands an enormous price, or can
scarcely be purchased at any price Now give it
steady, profitable market, or put it IN such
shape that It may be stored, aud you have solved
what has always been hard problem
The same remarks spply to figs peaches, toma-
toes pohus, mangoes, and | know not how many
other fruits and vegetables which might easily be
produced in almost unlimited quantities, but
which are now Of small account
The Alden Process of preserving meat and
vegetables is the key to unlock new empire of
wealth and industry for our Islands Its products
are already coming to US across the water. and /
are offered TO US by our traders-at enormous
prices. That the fruits cured by this process /
greatly surpass ordinary dried fruits any one can
see, And the process delivers them in psrTectly .
clean state, in which it is claimed they will keep /
better than those dried by the ordinary process.
The Alden process is very simple aud inexpensive.
man with small capital can set il up and work
it, or companies may be formed for the purpose
All kinds Of fruits Vegetables can be rendered t
for transportation storage to any desirable extent
Coffee can at once be dried in the berry. thus pre-.
serving al It's value; for Que popularity OF the pro
cess is the cloe rdc OF the substance operated on
is preserved; the only cbGpQr effected being, in the
OF fruits the starch is changed to grape sugars
thus bringing out in a perfectly ripe condition, as
well as dry, what may have entered in a somewhat
crude state.
But probably its greatest immediate value to us
will be 10 the preservation Of beef The whole mus
cuar part OF the animal is dried and sold at 40 cents
per pound-demand uusupplied.
-Four or five pounds OF fresh beef make one Of dry.
The herds ordinarily slaughtered viii average not
less than 200 pounds per animal, giving-say 40 or
50 pounds OF the dry which 40 cents is SIC orSs0
per head. Deduct expenses, and abou, Sl0remain in
the pocket in addition to the pitauce remaining
from the average Of nine dollars COW realized from
the hides and talow. That Is $1,000 clear gain on
a herd Of 1000 eattle-hitherto casfod 1t would
be easy, and perhaps profitable, to go on in this
strain, but hasten to say that the process is not
expensive. The whole apparatus and fixtures for
operations need not cost over two or
three thousand misunderstanding 10 circumstances,
and the process is wonderfully simple
The apparatus consists Of nue made OF boards,
about feet square, by Is or 90 feet high prolonged
10 smaller fue above through the roof aud below
into small furnace where the heat Of a coal fire
heats the current Of air which aseends through the
lue The substance TO be preserved is spread on ,
hurdles or sleeves Of the size Of the ue, slid in by
opening at the lower part and raised BY endless ,
,hains and simple machinery through the ue at the
anne time that the heated air from the fire below
iscends-whieh peforms the operation In three or
our hours the material which was put in at the I
POTION is taken out at the top done" having !
,eeu hoisted along gradually as new hurdles were
,ut 10, at the same time that Others are taken ont
The popularity Of the process is that humid air is
ised instead OF dry air. The process is patented,
nd negotiations are in progress for securing pa.
ent for the islands.
The Inventor offers liberal terms, but, without T
be cooperation OF certain number of those who T
nay wish to avail themselves of it, the writer can
ot undertake to the business established at the
stands. While on the coast recently he visited the
Establishment at San Lorenzo, aud had the whole =
recess explained to him, that he feels eompe- r
snt to conduct it to G fair issue. Il
1t is desirable that measures be commenced to in.
-oduce II without loss OF time Waiting win never q
o it. he viii be glad to any inquiries so Il
as he can, in relation TO the business or to enter
Ito negotiations with parties as above binted
Waikiki. May u, 1874. E. BAILEY.