The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-29
Committee Of Planters Statement
By MI. Baldwin.
NO REQUEST FOR CONTRACT
Willing to Take Chances-ExperI.
ment Station work-YieId-EIec
ton OF OFFICERS.

There was about the usual attend
meeting OF the Hawaiian Sugar Plan
ters' Association At the assembly room
on Nuuanu street, just below Nuuanu.
President Dole was n visitor and sew
eral times took part in the discussions.
President Joseph u. Atherton was in
the chair and G. Bolte as usual. was
the recorder.
The financial statement OF the assoc
iation, which, by the way. il incorpor-
ated. was very satisfactory.
The sugar crop for the campaign OF
1878 was 229.i14 tons as against 25l.-
l26 the preceding campaign. The pre-
dictions are for a large increase on
crop for 1883.
Election OF officers resulted:
President-H. T.. Baldwin.
president-Charles VI. Cooke.
Secretary-C. Boltc.
Treasurer-F. NJ. SwanZy.
Auditor-F. 4. Schaefer.
Other Trustees-James Il. Castle. w.
G.. Irwin. John +. Hackfeld.
About a dozen reports were read from
various committees that had been as
signed by President Atherton to pres
ent papers. Comment was not extend
dorsed the nine-roller mill and said IL
would probably be adopted by every
plantation in the group.
DIR. Maxwell made extremely interest
ing. If largely technical reports on fer
tiIization and on the experiment sta
tion. OF which he Is the director. Trials
are being made with thirteen varieties
Of cane. The cane seed is produced at
tine station and is all OF the same age
eight months. Each experimental row
is los feet long. DR.. Maxwell has tried
planting with a single eye. planting
with two eyes. planting with an entire
stick. The best outcome was with us
ing a single eye OF cane. DR. Maxwell
has planted at various distances-the
foot and above. He has grown cane
with and without irrigation. He has
allowed weeds TO grow with and with
out irrigation. He has tried flooding
and specific amounts OF water. The
seemed to- he under the head
OF irrigation that in many instances OF
cultivation too much water is being
used. Il was made clear that the fertili-
ger is wasted by over-irrigation. for the
reason that It is carried away by the
drainage. having become soluble. as IL
must become TO he OF use.
All OF the planters are n be shown
over the experimental station by Dr.
Maxwell. the director. AZ > o'clock this'I
\ notable incident OF yesterday was
a statement by II. p. Baldwin. who be
sides being the chief man in three great
sugar estates. is a pioneer in the busi
ness. a son OF the Islands and at pres
ent a member OF the Hawaiian Senate.
Mr. Baldwin said that prints and in
dividuals inimical 10 the planting in
terest had been making wild and incOr-
rect statements concerning the mem
orial that the association had sent 20
the commissioners lately sitting here.
for the purpose OF framing and enabl-
ing act and laws for the new territory.
II had been bruited about. even after
the memorial had been published in the
Advertiser, that the planters had peti-
toned 10 be permitted 20 retain con-
tract labor for a period and II had been
shouted that the planters wanted adj
vantage over everybody else and esDe-
cial favors Of all characters. The fact
was. he asserted. that the planters
were willing TO take the business
chances incident TO any enterprise in
which men engaged anywhere. The
understood and expected and knew and
we're satisfied that contract labor was
70 be abolished. They did not have any
idea that any feature OF the present
contract labor law OF the present was
70 remain long after Congress met.
What they asked was simply that until
industrial conditions became settled
under the new order. that the planters