The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-11-19

been a few new and advantageous
changes made, the spread of which is
being ad opted by a number of the plan
t:tions. For example in planting rat
tCons, whore formerly the water ran
down the furrow, l speak only Of plan
tati<ns where Irrigation Is used. the
ridge between the rows has been split
with plough. the cane hilled up and
TIE water run between. rows. This
method seems to pay better. the suck
ers hav. been bigger ana come NOR
freely. In fact the RATION yield II
treated in this way will come within
a ton of the yield of plant cane in the
same field. At MAXWELL by killing up.
rattoons have yielded six and seven
tons whore the plant cane has had no
large yield, and where formerly the rat
toon yield was only three tons upwards.
90! course there is an additional eN-
pense in plouehing and billing. but not
necessarily a great one. On Maui we
have a young man who has "ons': ucted
"A wooden machine for killing up, which
We have lined with zinc and III one or
two instances constructed of very thin
sheet iron ana which has been a grra.
help and saving in killing up while
equal to hand work. The machine
may be most easily likened TO a double
mould board plough, it pushes and
raises tn. dirt distributing the latter
around the cane In very satisfactory
maErcr. / think its use will extend.
II IL only a light iraught machine and
recommend its use very heartily,
with regard to the loading ma
chine on Maui, l regard its use as per
haps not altogether satisfactory but n
great help on a plantation generally. l
think that we are on the right track,
1t has proven great labor saver and
the adoption Of labor saving machin
cry. Inventors must help us in this
quandary. The loader may be most ade-
quatcly described as q locomotive der
rick with runs on an ordinary planta
ton railroad track. the derrick loading
the cane into the cars. Mr.. Rickard
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 modi:
fications In the machine and If not ex,
actiy the right thing 1t is eminently
helpful. The machine is designed To-
raise three tons at once but we have
found that 1000 pounds makes a more
amount. | saw four loads
of this size made in three minutes,
has got TO be done in this
at present the japanese are
walking away with our dividends.
II do not despair yet of a cutting
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has mo, nro1.e, ~, o,,ir. success. II ia
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NJ IFS use was shown NJ snrncu.,syiII.
where when the new min uas huild-
ing II saved tho work of twenty men
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