Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-28
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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HhllUfN away from NluNlldi NhA NNM
the shipments do not exceed 100000
pounds
Jau is trying 90 avoid the blight by
planting "a species OF LIberian coffee
which i8 said 90 resist it and this Us
the character OF tha coffee here at Jo.o
] met coffee planter .u Honolulu who
told ma they had recently discovered
am lntl0ta FOR The blight ] think
10 was of Dara..tiraI nature, "a llt-
de- worm or bug. which attacks tIe
parasite which causes the blight and
Ribs il and which mulupiios go rapidly
that it WII in "a short time drive out
blight parasite and free the plantation
of them The new parasite does not
iujurs the trees Experiments with o.
are now being made in the Hawaiian
Islands and it is said successfully on
the ship which brought me 90 hauia
from HJngfons was o. man from ll1-
watt who expects 90 invest in coffee
lands here because boz can buy them at
low price ON account of the blight
and by introducing this parasite can
redeem them.
THEY PAID TWENTY-FIVE PER
CENT
1n the past coffee raising has paid
very WELL the planters and shippers
making about 25 per cent out of their
Investments Good coffee lands with
the trees lu bearing were until lately
worth about 500 gold per acre. Al pres-
emit their value Is only nominal and
some of The planters have been pulling
up The coffee trees and putting In sugar
cane
UP 90 the time of the appearance Of
the blight the most of the coffee was
grown in the provinces below and about
Manila The best came from Bataugas,
quite a Dot was raised about Laguua dc
Bay ana also 600 CayIte. Many Of The
plantations were large, containing NUM-
cr0us trees The trees were shaded.
They were set out 500 closely that LIS
trees were grown ON one acre, ana 10
may have been this close planting that
CAUSED the low yield per tree. The
amount produced averaged not more
than ten ounces or "a thousand pounds
tI the acre This at twelve cents
pound q low rate In the past for this
variety of coffee gave uu income Ot
$40 per acre per year In Brazil many
OF the trees yield two and three pounds
each.
The harvesting OF the crop IN Luzon
was usually done on shares. women and
children picking the berries and hullng
The seeds Tor half the profits praCti-
ally no modern machinery has been
used. Much OF the pulp has been al
lowed 10 dry ON the berries and then
pounded on with mortar ana pestIe AZ.
ter This The chan was removed by wine
moving The seeds in the wind Some of
the planters hired their work done Hut
nearly all were more OF less ln debt s0
that there has not Yet been Url HCIl
test of coffee raising Zoo this part of
The world with modern machinery and
plenty of capital
HOW THEY RAISE COFFEE ~
SULu,
The coffee conditions in the Suu ISLE
ands are far different. however. from
those 90 Luzon. Here there is only one
plantation. but u covers seventy acres
and IL now has $1,000 trees. Il ls owned
by two Germans. who have married
Moros They have a large tract OF land
and are testing coffee raising as am exc
pertinent Their trees are now only
three years old and they are s0 loaded
with berries that the limbs are break
Ing down with the weight They will
get one pound per tree this year. and
they tell me that they have been all
ready offered 2s cents silver or IA cents
gold per pound for their crop Within
two years from now they think the
trees VIII be producing at least three
and O. half pounds each. and it looks az
though they had "a fortune I'M sight
I spent some time iu going over the
plantation IL lies about three miles
back OF Jolo on the foot hills of the
mountains. and is reached boy q bride
path through the fields The lands SUR
rounding 10 are like q natural park
filled with tam forest trees and over
grown with tam growth OF luXuriant
grass. The grass in many places was
taller than my head 0s ! sat on my
pony The earth OF the path where the
grass was worn on was as black as
that Of the valley OF the Nile untl we
came TO the plantation Itself where 10