The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-11-12
REPORT OF COMMITTEE on M4NUF4cTURE OF SUGAR

To ae Pcit Stockholders Of CHAPTERS Labor and Supply 20:
The from point Of view
commanding in the markets Of the world
staple cheaper than before known the history Of
the industry Raw sugar selling $50
per and that it may drop toa lower price
have been therefore, producing either at loss or at
greatly diminished profits
increasing more rapidly large surplus sugar
greatly in excess consequently been accommodating 1t
PRODUCTION suanty reduced to work of the
bring supply and demand into more satisfactory relationship prices will
As the heavy stocks Of sugar principal world
yet begun diminish it BY no means unlikely that prices may
touch a lower point before they rise.
In the West Indies and other canegwng countries where yields are
plantations told being abandoned which must un-
dou reduce the future supply and would lead better returns were
there than increase Of production
yen win ie low s viii axceed apT pTyons
sugar industry endure these hard times without
ouy suffering during u the time that
high in price science ingenuity being constantly brought
suggested Improvements merit have been promptly adopted
ane-ug manufacturers the other hand have been bHngng
with clumsy rollers independently contemPucus science and
nonhaan wasting from 20 to 40 cent of borOuy cultivated
sof-exhausting agricultural product
For over thirty years these juice been extracted
solely hrerer mills and these mills in proportion to their
size extract did thirty years
only adopted have been for labor fuel
saving been forced by the scarcity of these near
Economy apparently disregarded The
sion Of double triple effects the exception not the rule although
sugar factories have been using them for years past
Unless we are going to produce sugar from cane as heS q 1e p
ncon of industry 1t ehovs Us therefore to lose no time in learn
ing and adopting perfect and methods than those no" in
improvements the beeugr industry mainly due to the
application science your Committee would that, sacrifice
really scientific chemist should be secured by the Trustees
Committee ventures regret that the Trustees have moi
thought fit with the resolution unanimously adopted
at years meeting which instructed them to the services of
competent chemist ns possible
inventions Of importance
picaide our industry notice The Ban
process ng and boiling under pressure has apparently not ye
The diffusion process has been attracting great attention
other much written the sub
ie MONTHLY and other journals that planters may
assumed to be fairly familiar with its principles and character
So favorable to the and such general interest
it, that Committee feel justified in recommending that
thorough merits be made in this country at the expense Of tn
Planters Labor and Supply Company. .
d the Tetugar industry Europe been 50 almost utterly
neglected through all these in its application to the more easily man
ufactured sugar-cane
The diffusion I &c i No b II Mib, for it, mil to n
ugarane in British colonies DR. Evans in the SUgd
Planters of the referring this then new process says
others requires touhtone experience" Is not wonderful tina
80 few feeble attempts have since been made to apply the desires
nbstone BY all means Supply
take some decided step this matter The process we read
already proved in application to the juvenile sorghum
Dr. sheibler process tracing mOlasses gain
ground Germany second factory has been erected Berlin
possible that might pay to have factory in Honolulu Tor eun
The Fiutn process" by Koeing in the letter whic
accompanies report deserves attention. though it somew
chemists which are attached every sugar factory Mr. Mole
of MILL Iaana promises paper on the subject to n
cly at Iahaina the next annual meeing when successful
will present s aPsfSn hay been @ae We ande By sprint
ling eg and recruhng, and further eer
Ts T,au should prove advantageous las
for fuel would where wood coal have to be burn
e effort statistics the PROPORTIONS of FIRST second an
third Iizations obtained at different
and srinage weight bet plantations and San Francisco
with the hans Of Planters and for
figures in the accompanying table the Committee mainly
deted H Davies Co., H. Hacded Co., ana MI
ton who obgingy furnished Us with al the information in the
power .E III e4 III i -, ~ -. ", II !. ,,s -
The great variety proportions os I'd and sd sugar at uine
i and calls for attention
The hrinkage weight plantations and Francisco is
almost all cases greater should be and indicates that more Gu
should packing and perhaps also in drying
Mr. Koeing furnishes interesting table Of comparative I
cations the Princevle plantation aud y san Francisco
shows be notably higher than the former TITS pity tn
more planters furnish similar Statements ~
Statistic on these plantations could not
to he and valuable. z esT -ns- .11
In concluding their fourth report committee
but express regret that has NOT uceeeed better in collecting ana
nnating value and beg to suggest that possible
should be appointed who could have ebe WI
the necessary subject sufficient leisure to take much mo
energetic than been hitherto ATTEMPTED aBFr
s RESPECTFULLY submitted
r. A. MAcFIE, JK,
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