The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-28

but it has one big disadvantage witt
, us, and that is, the amount of dry
, leaves that stick tight to the bottom
of the cane, which cannot be- knocked
off with knife, making it bad fol
milling and also more costly for cut
lting.
REP.1ANTING.
/ Re-planting. taking the plaEGE cane
we have just taken off, the first field,
$50 acres, cost Is cents per acre to re-
plant. Commenced it June 18th Sec
ond field, 337 acres, commenced July
Hath. Cost % cents per acre. Third
field, zoe acres. commenced August Is.
costs SLIT per acre A great deal OF
the last field was not planted until DC
| The above showing is pretty muai8 IN
keeping with our other years. Only we
| have some cold wet seasons when cane
Won't come up good, even III June. Re-
garding early or late planting, with. us
! all fields planted after August reG1ire
more care and are q source Of greater
anxiety than fields planted. in June,
July and August. Fields planted be-
fore the middle Of June are liabl4 TO
tasseI in November planted after the
l15th we never have any tasseis. Ss We
begin the middle OF June and try TO
finish in August.
MATURITY CT CROPS.
AS is well known in Agriculture,
crops mature earlier on light, thin- SOILS
than on deep heavy ones, anu SO l. -
here All kinds Of cane that we nave
tried deteriorate just az soon as Liz
ful, bloom OF the tassel Is gone. !he
ya1low Caledonia and Rose Ba4li
etart in to send out young shoots Iroln
tho stool. SO that field OF Rose Hanl-
hoo ratoons of 500 acres cut IN MATCH
looked like a field Of young cane grow
ing the men only cutting the mature
sticks and leaving the young Shoots
The difference in the same held III SUI
crosse and purity, taken Off III Oecem-
ba1 and March. is as follows: Deem
har-Sucrose. 1928; purity, sl.5.
March-Sucrosa, 1913, nurity, a1~s'
The piece taken Off in December was
cnlv a small norton Of the tield-Some
oioht ar ten acres: the March lot was
goo acres. I.ahaina does not SEND up
any young shoots after tassell1ng, IL
simnlv dries up. The Wetter and cold
er it is the quicker it goes bad ana Il
is only in very good weather that we
have any lalas. Rose Bamboo and yell
low Caledonia are both more liable to-
be turned over with wind than Lanai
ma, especially the Rose Bamboo, the
wind turning it over roots and all, ana,
like all forced and Quick-grow1ng
pIants, tha sticks are long and snlnd-
ling and lie down a great deal. Yellow
Caledonia stands up better than Rose
Bamboo Both Rose Bamboo and yell
low Caledonia are quick in starting,
the shoots showing above ground ear
lier than Lahaina, growing vigorously
right along; keeps good color all
winter and appears to stand the cold
weather much better than the Lahai-
ma. Altogether very pleasing cane
to grow, but terribly disappointing
when you come to weigh it and put it
through the mill. Rose Bamboo grinds
badly in our mill; it seems to re-ab-
sorb the Juice no matter how you run
the mill, fast or slow, the hydraulic
heavily weighted or not. Perhaps it
would do better with rolls of smaller
diameter, as the point Of contact would
be finer. My opinion Of the two varie
ties is that they require a deeper soil
than we have. and longer time to
grow. Their success in the uplands Of
Hamakua and Kau would indicate that,
as they get such conditions, viz: deep
soil and long growth. When we first
got Rose Bamboo and Yellow Caledo-
MIA they were from two to three weeks
later in tasselling than Lahaina, but
now they tassel at the same time.
RATOONs.
Ratoons can never be a sure crop
with us. Our last crop of plant cane
was perhaps the best ever taken off
here and our ratOons one of the poor
est. You will notice the rainfall and
temperature Of January, February and
March, 1898, was not cane-groWing
weather; great many Of the stools SO
rotted that we deemed it better to take
Off what we could than to cut back and
go IN for long ratOOns. From expert
ence we have never been able to make
long ratoons pay. One thing We no
tice that whenever for any reason our
plant cane does not grow well from
late planting, bad weather or any
cause whatever, our ratoons are better
than the other fields that have had the
normal crops. It would seem as though
the land was not able to sustain any
more than so much whether plant or
ratoons, and that, in spite of any fer
tilizers you can put on.
The weather this last spring was
very favorable for ratoons; we nad a
dry winter and for the first three