Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-04-03
SpRECKLESV VILE.
VISIT TO T-E LA 7G=ST SUGAR PLAN
TAT ON IN The WORLD.
The Story ot Claus Spr c'<ics' Success as
written by Honolulu Correspond
~. ent 49, MaChincr Labor Guilt
walton, Yield of sugar Etc.
Professor Maynard o. II rtford c,urant.l

But what ana Nntlc II E'IltthltSNhlo,
and why should it be visited? 1T becomes
me to answer this quite natural question
without any parade Of superior informa-
ton, because two months ago | knew as
little about SprCcklCsviilc as the average
Spreck lesvillian knows to-day about Hart.
ford 1t has a familiar sound. akin to
Tariff Vile or Falls illage. In point of
fact, it is small settlement with poly.
glot opClation-C hinuse, ortugucsc,
Japa lcse, hawaiians, south Sea Islanders,
Americans, Nolwegians, Germans. Eng.
fish, scot h, on the island of Maui one of
the smallest of the Hawaiian group, all
engaged in the manufacture OF sugar on
the largest plantation in the world.
About 81, 100000 have already been OK
pended in the pant Tia machinery, all
made in the lnitcd States is of the most
recent and lost approved pattern, the
management %, intelligent and progressive,
the annual yield is enormous, aud the
whole is tie growth of only five years.
The area under cultivation is about TO-
600 acres One.quarter o. this is planted
every year from July TO October. Single
joints of the cane. each containing an eye
very much like the eye Of Il potato) are
planted at intervals OF twelve inches and
lightly covered with soil. During the re.
Rod of growth the trenches are wceded as
often as may be necessary. The most Sc
Iious problem is how to obtain an ade-
quatc supply of water. The average rain
fall is very uncertain, as may be inferred
from the fact that it varied from 1o II
inches in 1913 to Bis in 1891. The
planter must rely there ore, on artificial
irrigation The ST rockies plantation is
watered by two bitches, the rlncii al one
twenty miles long, fourteen feet wide at
the bottom, and six feet Deep with sid
lNtrS 10 SublllN Wntpr II tlp trenches Il thp
rate OF from II, 600 to 10000 cubic feet TO
the acre each week The cost o, this
ditch was about $3.50, 600.
Cutting cane for the mills commences
in January and goes on until the fields are
cleared, the time required for bringing
the cane to maturity being from fourteen
TO eighteen months. Of course. every
practicable eNpedient is adopted for d.
minshing the amount Of manual labor
Twenty miles Of narrow gauge road trav
erse the plantation, the track being
changed as the work goes ON, so as to re
duce the carrying 10y hand o the min
imum. The cane is then trauspoi ted to
the crusher, which, fed by an endless
chain, grlnds up in the three mills, about
500 tons of cane per day, resulting in a
daily yie,d Of about eighty tons of sugar
The yield of sugar to the acre varies
from three to SIX tons-Gcpcnding on the
rf,Ilu n
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