The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-08-01
Total. ........ 1884 1915

Total........ s........ 1884 749, ISL
These amounts, with the quantity
taken for local consumption added
and the stock of old sugar on Janu-
airy 1st deducted, show the receipts for
the first six months of the year to
have been 92I, 1855 tons and 769, 657 tons
respectively.
Mr.. J. c. Kilgard, the Philadelphia
capitalist, is at Cincinnati, Ohio, fur
thering arrangements to locate near
Covington, KY, a two thousand acre
beet sugar plant and factory. Some
five hundred thousand dollars will be
invested in the project.
The situation at the jacksonville
beet sugarie is thus described by a
writer: awe have this season around
jacksonville $500 acres planted in
gar-beets-the largest acreage yet.
Last season we had about 1900 acres
The plants are growing nicely.
Within the past week they have been
pushing along wonderfully. Last
year we began crushing on August
31st, and it will probably be about the
same date this year. The outlook is
good, although we can't tell until the
time comes, for some men who plant
don't always harvest their crop. Last
season we harvested in the Pajaro
valley Sc 600 tons of beets, and the
factory turned out 5000 tons of crude
sugar. We now pay farmers s. ton
straight for all beets delivered. We
don't test for polarization now before
fixing the price, for we know the
average polarization will run about
IS per cent. When we first started in,
five years ago, we agreed to pay 81 a
ton for all beets that reached IA per
cent. polarization, and 80 cents addi-
tional for each additional de
gree of polarization. There is
no longer need of making tests of
all beets, for they run much richer in
sugar than we first expected. 1t is
not at all uncommon to find crops
amounting to twenty tons an acre,
and all the beets averaging Is per
cent. polarization. At So ton the
farmer gets from $50 to 500 an acre.
1t costs, we find on our Moro Colo
ranch, about S32 to plant and harvest
an acre, that yields from - to Is tons
of beets. AT this rate there is left at
the outside new profit to the farmer
of all the way from S35 to $50 an acre.
The yield of beets and the amount of
sugar they contain depends entirely
on the sort of season we have. Sugar
beets want warm, dry weather. Our
climate is greatly in our favor. A
German scientist told us at first we
could not raise profitable sugar-beets
because we had no rain in the sum-
mer. He bet $40 hat on our first
crop. | got the hat. The fact of the
matter is the Germans cannot teach
us anything about raising sugar-beets
because our soil, and especially our
climatic conditions, are so different
from theirs. They use fertilizers and
we don't. We have no need of them
as yet and their use has never been
discussed by our people. We get all
our seed from Germany. The same
sorts of beets here, without fertilizers
being used, will average fully per
cent. higher in sugar than the Ger
man product with fertilizers. We
use different varieties of beets on diff
ferent soils, planting four varieties in
alI.u
Annexation in Statu Quo.
There is nothing additional to re-
port regarding the annexation ques-
ton. The announcement that the
Provisional government would seek
annexation with Great Britain has
caused ripple of excitement in the
American press, but Cleveland still
hold his mouth shut.
The chamber of commerce of this
city has passed resolutions favoring
immediate annexation.