The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-14

JUS W lul One-nOTSc SuOSOll plOW
in the bottom of the furrow lust
ahead of the planters, loosening the
soil from two to six inches, making
u nice fresh seed bed, the seed to be
planted under the bottom of the
furrow in the mellow soil. July
was the best month to plant below
an elevation of 700 feet; at an
elevation of 200 feet or more May
was not too soon. In after cultiva-
ton, the report strongly urges the
use of the cultivator, which nearly
dispenses with the less effective and
more expensive hoeing. An exam
pie of this is given in the case of
the Spreckelsville plantation when
raising the first crop. The cultiva-
tor was used with great success on
one part of it. The soil was loos-
ened, weeds killed, and drains
scraped at S5 an acre, while it cost,
another overseer $50 to have his
section scraped with hoe. The
weeds got the better of him, and
the cane was stunted. The cale
treated by the cultivator yielded one
ton an acre more than the cane
under the hoeing process. Never
let weeds grow; put the cultivator
through as soon as the cane begins
to make its appearance above the
ground. Keeping the soil loose and
fine on top by cultivation was, in a
measure, both food and water to the
crop, as it prevented evaporation.
Experience showed that the best
way to care for cane the first six
months after planting was to COM
mence cultivating when the young
cane began TO come up, and about
the time it was all up, go over it
again with cultivator, going around
each row, and each time roll down u
little fresh, soil around the cane,
and to continue until the cane was
too large to allow of further culti-
vation. One cultivator would suffice
for sixty acres, rows five and q half
feet apart. During the season the
soil thrown out from the seed furrow
worked back, leaving the land about
level at the finish; the soil would be
loose, and might be freed of weeds
with very little hoeing. The filling
up of the burrows was only applic-
able to rainy regions. This course
was pursued the past year at Kakai-
all with gratifying results. The
difference in labor alone between
cultivating and hoeing was that of
one man to four acres or five men to
one acre. This was difference
which no planter was justified in
sighting, not to speak of the benefit
liberal cultivation was to the cane.
The report was accepted and
ordered printed in the Planters
Monthly"
Mr.. DLLINGHAM read an eXhaus-
tive report from the Committee on
Live Stock. The document being in
the hands of the " Monthly print
ers, we cannot give an abstract at
present.
FRUIT CULTURE.
Mr.. Dole read the report of the
Committee of Fruit Culture, signed
by Mr.. j. M. Alexander, Chairman.
1t sets forth that experiments prove
that nearly everything in the shape
of fruit produced in the tropics can
be raised here. The cultivation of
the fruits of the temperate zone had
not yet been fairly tested. Some of
the leading varieties were planted at
Olinda, Maui, at an elevation of
1000 feet. They have made
healthy, but slow growth. Black
berries there have grown as well
and yielded as abundantly as in
California. Raspberries have been
planted, and are growing well. Eng
lish walnut and japanese chestnuts
thrive there, and probably might
be profitably raised in the upper
parts of our forests and on the high
plains of Hawaii. Many of our
fruits might be cultivated by the
square mile, where now they are
barely cultivated at all. The chief
requisite for the promotion of fruit
culture is a facility for marketing.
Fruit drying by the Alden process,
fruit canning, and the expectation
of fresh fruit in refrigerators by
steamers should engage attention.
Mr.. LYCAN, on being asked to
give some points on fruit culture,
said he could not give any more
than the report just read. His work
was experimental. At his Kalihi
ranch he had 100 varieties of fruit,
from all parts of the world. He
would be glad to describe them to
any of the members of the company
if they would visit the ranch. Mr..
Lycan promised to say more about
fruit culture at future meeting.
Mn nnIr thnuuht the ALLIGATOR