The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-19


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
"OC course there is an additional aX-
pense in pioughing and killing. but not
necessarily great one. on Natl We
have q young man who has cOnsti ucted
a wooden machine for killing up which
we have lined with zinc and IL one or
two instances constructed of very thin
sheet iron and which has been gTea-
help and saving in killing up while
equal to hand work. The machine
may be most easily likened to a double
mould board plough, IL pushes ana
raises the dirt distributing the latter
around the cane in a very satisfactory
manner. L think its use will extend
II - only a light draught machine and
commend its use very heartily
With regard to the loading ma
chine on Maui, L regard its use as per-
haps not altogether satisfactory but
great help on a plantation generally L
think that we are on the right track.
It has proven a great labor saver and
there is a necessity we are all under.
the adoption of labor saving machin-
cry. Inventors must help US in TINS
quandary. The loader may be most ade-
quately described as a locomotive der
rick with runs on an ordinary planta-
ton 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 Mahaweu.
The designer has made certain modi-
IN, ba Ild
actly the right thing 1t is eminently
helpful. The machine is designed to
raise three tons at once but we have
found that LOCO pounds makes more
convenient amount. 1 saw four loads
of this size made in three minutes
Something has got TO be done in TINS
direction. at present the Japanese are
walking away with our dividends.
Il do not despair yet of cutting
machine. There is a moving machine
in use in Louisiana which is not prac-
teal among our heavy cane. In Louisl-
ana the cane grows with straight
stalks and in q different manner to
ours l believe that a hand machine
can yet be made to save the work OF
three or four men. Mechanicfans that
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 ma
chine would have TO weigh however
in the neighborhod of ten pounds
which would be too heavy for the car
rier. A suggestion was made to me py
a friend that had seen a pneumatic
hand machine for marble cutting. It
struck me that there was good prin-
L.
cane? The operator would simply have
to point his tool and cut the cane in
two or three lengths with no exertion
beyond that Of guidance, while the
machine could be made not TO weigh
over five pounds. I believe that man
from Australia came through here with
a hand cutter but that it was pronounc-
ed too cumbersome.
Returning to the loader again, ifi1t
has not proven an entire success it.As
at any rate a great convenience for
clearing land of rock or other obstacles
1t can run anywhere that a portabie
railway can be placed and an instance
of its use was shown at Spreckelsvlle
where when the new mill was build
ing, 1t saved the work Of twenty men
Heavy drums were lifted and placed
i'm position in two hours that ordinarily
would have taken two days work with
a gang of men.
1T is very convenient. The mechanf-
cal geniuses in our midst must come
forward and supplant brute strength
by ingenuity in machinery"
J. A Scott of Hawaii, a member Of
the same committee, spoke of the con-
ditions in Hilo and Hamakua, where
but one variety of cane planting had
been proven poor feature. The La
haina variety was planted too continu-
ously and the crop of the Hilo Sugar
Company had become smaller.
THE yield of the newly introduced
cane" said he, had resulted in an
average of six and two-tenths tons on
a 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 contracted to allow the grow
ing cane the full benefit OF the sun ana
air
widening the rows TO six feet has
resulted in a crop of 600 acres that
promises yield at equal throughout to
that on the forty-three acres. The
money spent by the plantation for labor
was nearly all expended on the old La
hama cane. the new varieties yielding
at half the expense. The Horner cui-
tivator. made i'm the form of semi
circle instead OF the usual triangle had
proven a great saver in the Hilo dis
trict gathering the weeds into bun
die and burying them when the cui-
tivator was raised.
similar killing up arrangements TO
those practiced by Mr.. Baldwin have
been practiced by us in a cruder man
ner. With regard to cane leaders, {.
c. Kennedy has, I think. been to the
coast on precisely that matter and can
tell us something about them.
The latter stated he has supervision
of construction of four of the leaders
and that they would make a saving IN
the number of laborers. The machine
weighs two tons and lifts l.500 pounds.
With proper usage the machines could
clear 500 tons every day with eight men
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