The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-18
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freely. IN fact the rattoon Yield N
treated IN this way will come within
ton Of the Yield Of plant cane In the
same Held. At Maxwell by hiliing up
rattoOns have yielded six and seven
tons where the plant cane has had no
large yield. and where formerly the rat
toon yield was only three tons upwards.
"Of course there is an additional ex-
pense In ploughing and killing. but not
necessarily great one. In Maui we
have young man who has constructed
a wooden machine for killing up. which
we have lined with zinc and I'm one or
two Instances constructed OF very thin
sheet iron and which has been a great
help and saving in killing up. while
equal to hand work The machine
may be most easily likened to a double
mould board plough. II pushes and
raises the dirt distributing the latter
around the cane i'm a very satisfactory
manner. | think its use will extend.
1t is only a light draught machine and
/ recommend its use very heartily
with regard to the loading machine
on Maui, / regard its use as perhaps
not altogether satisfactory but a great
help on a plantation generally. / think
that we are on the right track. 1t has
proven a great labor saver and there
is a necessity we are all under. the
adoption of labor saving machinery
Inventors must help us in this guam
dry. The loader may be most adequate
| ly described as a locomotive derrick
which runs on an ordinary plantation
railroad track, the derrick loading the
cane into the cars. Mr.. Richard the
designer was sent to the States to
have the machine built and there are
now three being manufactured for use
at Spreckelsville, Paia and Makaweli.
THE designer has made certain mo-
difications in the machine and If not
exactly the right thing it is eminently
helpful. The machine Is designed to
raise three tons at once but we have
found that 1000 pounds makes a more
convenient amount l saw four loads
of this size made in three minutes.
Something has got to be done in this
direction at present the Japanese are
walking away with our dividends.
Il do not despair yet of a cutting
machine. There is a moving machine
in use in Louisiana which is not prac-
teal among our heavy cane. In Louis
lana the cane grows with straight
stalks and in a different manner to
ours. 1 believe that a hand machine
can yet be made to save the work of
three or four men. Mechanicians that
L have talked with seem to believe that
an electrical cutting machine generated
by power at the mill, conducted by light
wires to the motor in the cutters hand,
could be made to work. Such a ma
chine would have to weigh however
| in the neighborhood of ten pounds
which would be too heavy for the car
rier. A suggestion was made TO me by
a friend that had seen a pneumatic
hand machine for marble cutting. 1t
| struck me that there was a good prin-
| ciple. If it could cut marble, why not
cane? The operator would simply have
to point his tool and cut the cane in
two or tire lengths with no eXertion
| beyond that of guidance, while the
machine could be made not to weigh
over five pounds. l believe that a man
from Australia came through here with
a hand cutter but that it was pronoun-
ced too cumbersome.
| Returning to the loader again, if it
has not proven an entire success ii is at
any rate a great convenience for clear
| ing land of rock or other obstacles. 1t
can run anywhere that a portable rail-
way can be placed and an instance of
| it's use was shown at Spreckelsville
where, when the new mill was build
ing, it saved the work of twenty men.
| Heavy drums were lifted and placed
/ in position in two hours that ordinarily
would have taken two days work with
a gang of men.
1T is very convenient. The mechani-
cal geniuses in our midst must come
forward and supplant brute strength
| by ingenuity in machinery"
j. A. Scott of the same committee,
stated that he corroborated the last
speakers remarks and added that in
the Hamakua and Hilo districts the
| bad effects of planting one variety OF
cane continuously had been very APP
parent. Lahaina cane had gone back
ward and the Hilo Sugar Company
crop had badly dwindled. The planting
of Rose Bamboo and Yellow Caledonian
under the same conditions exactly had
resulted in a yield equal to the best
crops of Lahaina cane, while Lahaina
cane planted in certain rows of the
same crop had usually of late attained
four feet and then persistenly refused
any further growth,
1.-THE yield of the newly introduced
cane had resulted in an average of SIX
and two tenths tons on tract of forty
three acres, with the density a little
| low owing to the rows having been
placed a little too closely together, the
distance, five feet, having been too con-
tracted to allow the growing cane the
| full benefit of the sun and air
Widening the rows to feet has re-
suited in a crop of 600 acres that pro-
misses yield at equal throughout to that
on the fortythree acres. me money
spent by the plantation for labor was
nearly all expended on the old Lahaina
cane, the new varieties yielding at hair
the expense. The Horner cultivator'
made in the form of semi-circle IN
stead of the usual triangle, had proven
a great saver in the HilO district, gath
ering the weeks into bundle and
burying them when the cultivator was
raised.
"Similar killing up arrangements TO
those practiced by Mr.. Baldwin nave
been practlced by us in cruder man y,
! ner. With regard to cane leaders, =,
| c. Kennedy, has l think been TO the
coast on precisely that matter ana can
| tell us something about them
Mr., Kennedy stated that he had now
four being made on pattern that had
resulted in the saving of much LABOR
The new machines saved labor in the
ratio of two men in loading for every
eight previously employed. THE ma
chimes" said Mr.. Kennedy, was much
/ like that described by, Mr.. BALDWIN
! INT weighed only two tons intsead OF
seven and lifted 1900 pounds. ,oo