The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-27
LAND BEING RAPIDLY CULTIVATED
Plenty of Small Holders
Getting Good Results.
Japanese Prove Good Coffee Hands
pany to Buy Steam Dryer.

There returned on the Mauna Loa
yesterday four gentlemen whose inter
est in coffee culture is as large, per-
haps, as any equal number of men in
F. Lewis, w. w. Hall and Tom May
These gentlemen are heavily interest
ed in the Hawaiian Coffee and Tea
Company, and they visited the planta-
ton for the purpose of investigating it's
condition and reporting to the com
pany at the next meeting. Mr. Lewis
was seen at the Hawaiian Hotel last
night, and asked regarding the pros
poets in the district.
Coffee in Kona is as right as right
can be-" said the well-known grocer,
''and we are particularly we'll pleased
with the work our manager, w G.
Wait, has accomplished since he took
hold there. We have 200 acres plant
ed, and the trees are in beautiful con-
dition and full of berries. To us the
outlook is all that can be asked or ex-
pected.
This year we have taken off some
thing over 800 bags, and the indica-
tions point to 500 bags for the next
crop. The plantation is in excellent
condition, and the trees are, thanks to
our good friends, Professor Koebele and
Commissioner Marsden, absolutely free
from blight of any kind or red spider.
The larvae of the lady bug did its work
well. The condition of the plantations
in Kona is certainly encouraging, and
we are jubilant over the prospects.
You would be astonished," contin-
ued Mr.. Lewis, ''at the number of small
tracts of land being cultivated by cof-
fee growers up in Kona. Japanese and
Portuguese have taken up from one to
five acres, and their trees are looking
beautiful. Mr. Wait informed us that
the Japanese are excellent cultivators
of coffee, because they enjoy the work
These patches show the result of their
labor. Mr.. Wait has a number of jap
anese at work, and is we'll satisfied
with them, because they keep the
ground perfectly free from weeds.
have never seen a better kept planta-
ton than the Hawaiian Coffee and |
Tea Company's.
I'VE are so much encouraged with |
he condition of affairs that by the next |
steamer we will order a steam coffee |
which will pulp, dry, clean. |
polish and separate the berries This |
plant will be used by our company for |
the crop gathered as we'll as by other |
planters in the district. There will be |
plenty of work for it, because the plan |
-atiOns are growing, and will continue |
10 as the new country is developed. We |
saw a great many wild trees in the dis |
-rist well laden with coffee, and if these
we're pruned and cultivated they would
WELD good results. 1t seems TO me
but a short time when some one will do
this.
THAT will increase the work Of orr
plant. One thing about this process of
drying coffee is the fact that it has the
same effect upon coffee as age. 1t Will
not be necessary, then, to wait until
coffee is two or three years old before
putting il on the. market.
Our purpose in going to Hawaii was
not only TO visit the Hawaiian Coffee
and Tea Company's plantation. but TO
go generally around the district and see
what is being done by other planters.
At Kawailoa DR.. Lindley has 36 acres
of as good land as | ever saw, all plant
ed in coffee, and the trees look well.
He is using the cultivator, an evidence
that his land is pretty clean. DR.. Row
at has cleared about 80 acres, and his
men were planting when we were
there. DR.. McWayne has 80 acres of
beautifully located land, and his trees
are all set out NJ. F. Scott has $50
acres. about IS acres of which will crop
this year. F. w. Bartels has 80 acres
Of trees in full bearing. George Nc
DOugaI has 80 acres of a plantation in
full bearing, besides hundreds of wild
trees, which he has begun to cultivate,
and which will bring him good returns. |
= Everything in Kona points to pros
perity with the men who have put
their money there, but there is one