The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-02-17

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The land obtained for the pur-
pose is in the district of North
Kona, inshore of the landing at
Keauhou, and not very far from
Kailua, an already frequented port
of call. In the fourth year from
planting, say in the summer of
1895, the crop of the first hundred
acres should be ready for the mar
ket, and this estimated at only
] Id. per tree, would return at Is
cents, the sum of $4,000, but there
is every reason for BELIEVING that
both the yield will be larger and
the price higher than the above
estimate. The following particu-
lars of coffee plantation in the
Samoan group are believed to be
trustworthy. At the Otu-matu
Plantation, on the island of Upolo,
90 acres planted with coffee trees,
Z #. Z #. apart, which gives 889
trees to the acre, yielded first
crop, four years planting, of
$4,000 lbs. of cleaned. marketable
coffee, or lob lbs. to the acre,
or nearly l 1-6 lbs. per tree.
This coffee realized % cents per
pound in Apia, and German firm
IN Hamburg offered to this planta-
ton to take at the same price all
the coffee produced for ten years
Gas per sample). The plantation
lies about 1000 feet above sea
level with an annual rainfall esti-
mated at about $50 inches. This
information was gathered in 1887
and Mr.. Chas. d. Miller who is
about to undertake the planting
and management in Kona is en-
gagged in correspondence with Apia
with view to further information
on the subject.
Mr.. Miller has further informed
US that comparatively small par
eel of coffee, which he procured in
odd quantities from natives, who
had gathered it in the gulches of
Hamakua, realized in London in
its parchment" state ninety-two
shillings per cwt., and that of
all the coffees offered in the mart,
only one a choice brand of Ceylon,
stood above this almost chance
grown Hamakua sample. Other
varieties of coffee, notably the LII
berian, will be tried by the com.
pany, as we'll as tea, and possibly
where the ground is not suitable
for either of these product ramie
may be attempted, and we would
invite the attention of the company
to the production of Sisal valua-
BILE fibre which may be raised on
ground otherwise almost valueless
and which has, in the last few
years many times multiplied the
revenues of New Providence and
other islands of the Bahamas.
With such promising prospects
we leave the Hawaiian Coffee and
Tea Company for the present, wish
ing them all good luck, and hoping
that they may earn the gratitude
proverbially due to whomsoever
has made two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before, and in
a greater degree inasmuch as add
ing one, or several, staple products
to the wealth of the country, for a
long time too much given up to one
almost too engrossing an industry,
deserves we'll of the country. Here,
we believe that soil and climate are
alike favorable, and that with
watchful management, guided by
the experience of this and other
coffee planting countries, may avoid
or overcome the pests which have
hitherto been so fatal.
Mr.. Miller, the manager for the
company, has personal experience
of coffee culture under both favor
able and unfavorable circumstances
in Ceylon, and will enter into the
undertaking with a full knowledge
of the practical way to success.