Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-15
SOME KONk COFFEE LANDS
rHE CULriVArIOy oF TaE nER.
nv tNCHEAstHg nApIDBY.
Property OF the Kona Cones com.
pany Described Notes OF other
Plantations In VIcinIty.

District Of the Island Of Hawaii
aud consist Of 100 acres. OF
this SO acres is in actual cultiva-
tion, the trees being placed Q feet
apart each way and running in
size from one to three.year-old
J plants. The property is owned
by E. b. Barthrop, DR.. Capron
and others, the former being the
manager Mr.. Barthrop was form
erly engaged in the drug business
at Port Townsend, Washington,
and came here first for the benefit
of his health. This so much i'm
proved after short residence
here that he concluded to make
Hawaii his home and the raising
of coffee his future business. The
company is now having 100 acres
of forest and aa land cleared
ready for planting next year.
T ere are 80 900 thriving coffee
plants in the nursery, in spite Of
the fact that 10000 have been
planted therefrom this year.
Mr., Barthrop is described as a
young American hustler, who
keeps things moving on the plan
tation. Among the work now in
progress on the place is the con-
struction Of a stone wall up the
mountain side $4,000 feet long.
He has also put up a wire cable
1900 feet long 8 inch diameter
for the transporting of ferns to
different parts of the plantation.
These ferns are strewn about be-
tween the coffee plants and have
tn double effect of killing off the
weeds and making an efficient
fertilizer. They rot out in about
eighteen months, when q fresh lot
is used.
Manager Barthrop has q neat
and comfortable house standing
at an elevation of 1900 feet, the
coffee being planted at various
attitudes ranging from 1000 to
600 feet. The company has re-
Gently acquired the DR.. Lindley
place on which ar several acres
of 3-year-old coffee trees which
will bear this year, and has also
sublet 200 acres Of its own land
to the North Kona Company, a
new cooperation, which started in
on the first of August to clear
fifty acres for planting next year.
Waldemar Muller's place is
about three-quarters of a mile
distant on the same road. 1t
consists of 26 acres, of which 20
are in cultivation, some $4,000
trees being set out thereon whic
are now coming three years old
The plantation has an elevation
of 1900 feet and is all aa land
Mr.. Muller claims that coffee
does better on aa land than on
forest and in proof thereof offers
the record of one of his trees
an average of number not
quite three years old; it was Sc
lacted and the berries counted in
the presence of representative of
the BULLETIN. The tree contain
ed exactly, forty branches, of
which one was agreed on by those
present as an average and the ber-
ries thereon counted. There were
157, which, multiplied by the
number of branches on the tree,
gives a total of $3.50 berries, which
at the standard rate of 1000 to
the pound, gives little over three
pounds to the tree. Mr.. Muller
claims this record cannot be
equalIed for the age of the tree in
any coffee country in the world
Two of Mr.. Muller's boys, aged
10 and IL years respectively, cuI-
tivate ard keep clean four acres
of coffee without extra help. He
intends shortly to erect the nee
essary house and drying sheds
for cleaning and curing his coffee,
and has a system of portable
trays on an inclined railway
scheme of his own inven-
tion which he thinks will work to