The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-05-15

The receipts Of sugar from domestic ports,
during the week, we're 43, rs bags.
The agRreg te value of the cargoes of the
barks Deutschland and W. B. Godfrey and
the steamship Australia, for San Francisco,
was 1874, 6227S.
The exports of petroleum, crude, refined
and residuum, from the United States, during
March, we're a, 294,3 1863 gallons, valued at
$4,ll0039, against 43, los gallons, valued
al So. 534 $40 In March, 1887. The exports for
the nine months ending March 81, 1883, were
436, 414,Q0l gallons, valued at $34,6So, 436,
against 429, 63s .232 gallons, valued at 1884,
OIL ,904 in the corresponding period of 1887.
The visible supply of wheat April Z, was
% 5S3, 40 bushels, against 81 ,9l4.1l6 bushels
a year ago. The stock of wheat, at five
Atlantic ports, same date, aggregated 4,l5l,-
$40 bushels, against 1884 1897 a year ago.
The export movement of wheat and -four
from Atlantic ports from Sept. l, 1887, to April
Z, 1888, has been %, l94,821 bushels of wheat
less and ,052 sS7 barrels of -four more than
for the corresponding period of 1867, max
ing the decrease in wheat and flour equal to
1886, S29 bushels. The decrease in the ex-
port of maize, during the same period, was
1l,60l, 30 bushels, being 1890, $40, against
q, 504, $50 bushels.
Bradsgeet,s of April 14th under the head
OF 1.-The State Of 1rade,' reports better
weather, improved condition of interior
wagon roads, more favorable agricultural
conditions and more active purchases by
country merchants both west and northwest.
The exceptions are in New England and
Louisiana. The marketing of the Louisiana
sugar crop is reported completed, showing a
crop of 125, 900 tons out of an estimated 40 600
tons,
The total of failures in the United States
for the first fifteen weeks of the year, was
1852 against 8, 492 in the same period of 1887.
TIE Chattanooga TradeSman gives the fol-
lowing as the cost of raising sugar cane in
Florida. The figures are compiled from an
swers to enquiries addressed TO large mum
Der of planters, the lowest estimates being
given IN every instance. The following is
the result
Ten acres reclaimed land. -. $500
Ditching and draining. ....... 100
Flowing and planting. 200
Seed cane. .................. IA
Cultivatlng ..... .-.......... so
Harvesting = cutting, topping
and stripping. ....-........... $50
Yield 30 tons per acre, at $3.50
per ton. .......---............ l,44O
Second year, cultivating and
harvesting. -............... 200
Second year, yield. LAO
Third year, cultivating and
harvesting. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 200
Third year, yield. 1,440
Fourth year, oultivating and
harvesting. ................... 200
Fourth year, yield ............. LAO
Fifth year, cultivating and hsr-
vestng,.....--. --.......... 20O
Fifth year, yield. ......,. lao
Sixth year, blowing and planting 200
Sixth year, seed cane. ... IA
Sixth year, cultivating and har-
Vestlng..... ................... 2UU
Sixth year, yield. lao
Seventh year, cultivsting and
harvesting. -...-..--...--..... 2OO
Seventh year, yield .......... LAO
Eighth year, cultivating and
harvesting. .........-'...... 200
Eighth year, yield ......... 1,440
Ninth year, cultivatinG and har-
Vestllg.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2OO
Ninth year, yield ...-........... LAO
Tenth year, cultivating and har-
Vesung... .........-........ 2OO
Tenth year, yield. lao
Totals for ten years.. S3,2Ss Sl44OO
Profits in ten years. ......... SLIP
Thereplies give the average yield at 80 to
60 tons, but in the estimate the lowest figure
was taken.