Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-03-21

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plenl, and prosperity have passed and
a,t past Prosperity may vet be
ours; "pcacc and plenty, never
again Let u, be explicit The hst
condition oi peace to an Hawaiian
sugar planter has been security OF a
high priced market the treaty gave us
that As promise, and for seven years
the promise WI, kept Plenty
to Hawaiiln sugar planters has meant
heavy Yield, and heavy sales, with
,uucspoudugly heavy expenses The
most successful men among our plant
es say that The day uf large returns
per acre, except in exceptional local.
ties, is of the past that large yields
cannot be maintained except at eNces-
siyc cost Tor fertilizers that cheaper
transportation 'and more profitable
labor arc indispensable To success under
the conditions obtaining during 1884,
and which threitcn to continue, with
aggravated symptoms, indefinitely
The existing low price OF sugar is a
result OF Gcmany's enormous produc.
ton Of beet sugar That enormous
production is result OF the German
bounty system, coupled with the extra
ordinary union OF mechanical and
chemical skill IN German sugar manu-
fcturc The production of beet sugar
has been in certain sense oyer.pro-
duction. No, over production in the
sense that the word might be applied
to the manufacture of ironware, fabrics
OF the like, because the worlds con-
sumption has so increased that ALL or
practically all, the sugar made is used.
But the production of beet sugar at low
prices has put down the price OF cane
sugars below the cost OF production
so that, so far as the canesugar indus
try is concerned, there has been an
immense over-production OF beet sugar
But why can beetsuglr manufac
tuIcrs produce so much cheaper than
cane sugar manufacturers. As we said
above, because in Germany chemical
knowledge and mechanical skill have
joined hands in the sugar business,
The Germans get all the sugar out o
the beet a maximum of output at {
minimum OF expense. When they
began to do it they obtained price.
that justified them in paying 20 shil
lings (S5) a ton for beets As sugar
prices fell, they were obliged to offer
lower prices to the cultivators. Now
come the beet farmers and say they
can and will raise and sell beets foI
Ss.so a ton-just half what the suga
mill at Alvarado, California, is paying
lfor the beets it is manufacturing into
sugar at a profit Well, 1t looks as i
the sugar industry in Germany profit
ably could continue without any bounty
England also is alive to the possibili
ties OF beet sugar and at Lavenham il
Kent 4 mandatory is now IN opera
ton which obtains IS per cent. OF tn
weight OF beets in sugar. rhy German
already obtain, practically, all the suga
contained in the beets, though tn
English beet apparently of sweete
quality, gives better result OF sugar t
weight @: beets. Now the Englis
farmer is already selling for s shilling
or S. a ton the mangel wurtzel ; anc
probably, can raise sugar beets at
profit just as cheaply. And, even !
German prices, this new auxiliary pre-
duction, joined to that of Germany, Aus
tris, France and the United State:
means cheap sugar from tbs time o,
To many sugar planters the outloo
means simply "ruin' We AN con
pete with German, Austrian, English
French and American beet-sugar prC
ducers but the road to successil
competition is long one and "u
hill" We must spend that we ma
save. We must adapt the chemic'
and mechanical perfection OF bee
sugar manufacture, or else discover
more perfectly adapted system in i
stead We must get more juice froI
cane and more sugar from the juic
We must learn how to save in waste
S power and in wasted juice and trasl
$ We must learn the true mean betwee
u lavish expenditure and rigid econon
in buildings, in plant, in grinding,
y boiling, in transportation aHd IN Re
> s0Rai crptRdifHye. When we do lear
s. there will be prosperity in cane sug
y manufacture Until We learn, the
c will be Encouragement, failure an
C hard times.
a A correspondent of experience upc
: the subject Of silk culture lavors Il
. Press this week with a letter whiC
:. should awaken much interest and c
quiry upon that important industr
!. Mulberry trees flourish already in MAJ
4 parts OF the islands and are easily pr
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