The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-13
Louisiana Men Oh Cane Raising
in Hawaii.
THE IMPORT ANCE OF ANAL YSIS
EVA Is Cited as an Exam pie-The
Individual Farmer - liza
lians-Negroes.

Feb. .. 1891
Col. Zenor: There are some people
who will make a fortune NJ $3.50 a
ton for cane. whether poor or rich.
and others will lose money At $500 a
ton. Since our last meeting I have had
some little experience Il cali IL expert
ence because it is the experience OF
others) that convinces me that the
time is coming. gradually Il may he.
but II will be more rapid. when We
raise cane on whatever principle We
adopt. that will enable the manufac-
turer to go ahead with the business
and compete w4,I any sugar country
illustration. \ gentleman whom a.
know-a neighbor of Captain Pharr's
the O'Brien brothers. bought tract
of land at Morgan City. you might call
it lin the woods" 1t had been a plan
tation in ante bellum days when Il was
under cultivation. There were some
trees on this tract OF land that were
II inches in diameter. They got hold
of some men, put them there To get
that land under cultivation-it was a
big job cleaning it mp; If YOU had paid
for il by daily labor 1t would have
cost you a great deal OF money. They
cleaned that land up; and this past
season some OF the men they had there
have actually paid every dollar they
owed that was advanced to- them for
mules, supplies. everything. and they
are Independent to-day. But / find it
is the italian laborer that is the com
ing man TO raise cane in the State OF
Louisiana. / will state that because
ton, that il is 50. At the same time.
there are dariies who are doing well
at the business; they are rather eX-
ceptional among the class or darkies.
/ will make this statement: There are
several dari,ies doing well. but one
in particular that has in three years
paid the money that was advanced him
TO start on. He has paid for four good
mules. all OF his farming implements.
and everything OF the kind. He has
seed cane TO start on, and he had $500
or $500 in cash ahead, and got. II /
recollect correctly: $500 per ton for
his cane that he raised during these
three years ! state that to show that
the actual laborer. who does not pay
overseers from $500 TO $4,000 year:
who does not pay hostlers; who does
not pay carpenters and blacSsm.ths.
which we all do who are engaged In
this business tand il amounts TO q
great deaD. are the people who Will
come in and raise cane. and those VINO
have factories will convert IL into SUI
gar Now as the gentlemen VINO have
preceded me stated, in regard to the
Formidable formulated plan for the
production OF Sugar-that seems TO be
the knotty question. ! looked over
Mr. Kock ; plan. and IL seemed very
good as far as we have gone up tn the
present time. ! thought IL the best |
had seen; but as the gentlemen have
stated as Mr.. Mccall did. IL does not
do justice to the man who raises rich
cane. and il gives the man who raises
poor cane an advantage. These things
will have to be remedied some way or
another: and II seems 10 me. Mr.. Presi-
dent. that Professor Stubbs is the man
better than any one else / know OF.
TO solve this question. or come as near
solving il as possible, and IL seems TO
me the association should take some
action, and request Prof. Stubbs % for
mulatr some plan as plain. simple and
practicable as possible. and present i'll
TO the association FOR it's considera-
ton. l have nothing j could offer that.
would enlighten YOU. Mr.. President.
Capt. Pharr: Mr.. ComeauX. do I uu-
derstand Your proposition j. that the
factory should furnish the chemists
10 superintend the raising OF cane of
the fields?
Mr.. COmeauX: Yes sir. think with
the assistance of chemists YOU would
improve the clne
Capt. Pharr: Go about among the
men from whom YOU buy cane; super
intend them?
Mr.. ComeauX: Yes sir
Capt. Pharr: And direct the cultiva-
zion Of cane; see that the ground Is
III 'IlL@'n property AtItl4lIru. We'll.
would rather have mad Jobs Job than
that.
Mr.. J. II. Putnam: That j. the GUS
tom pursued by the beet factories
when distributing their bee;s in Ger
many by contract for the ensuing year.
The factories analyze all the soil oil
the beet producers. OF each grower of
beets. and prescribe the proper ferti-.
lizer to make the best quality OF beets
and that is the system pursued IN Ger
many. In Hawaii. that country where
they make such enormous Yields OF
sugar TO the acre, that is done on the
plantation. After grinding. the duty
OF the chemist there Is. 10 analyze
every bit OF land-every patch of land
to be planted in cane that year. and