The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-18
SUGAR PLANTERS
DISCUSS PLANS
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Companys' mills The saving from the
use Of fuel oil at Kihei was put
. must be cleaned each two weeks,
. as against. each four weeks with
coal. Mr.. Scott devoted the con-
, clusion of his paper to discussion Of
, extraction and polarization, giving fig
! ures taken wnile working 24,000 tons
; of cane during a campaign.
, James Glib discussed Cultivation"
at length. He dwelt upon the meth
) DDS of planting, showing that some
; men would not handle cane planted
Z against the wind, and going into the
; various forms OF putting down seed.
. In regard to cultivation, he said that
, it was his opinion that cultivation by
, man and mule should be followed in
: young cane, as a cultiyator will stir
; up the soil and control the weeds, one
; man and mule doing the work of ten
men with hoes. He suggested as well
. the securing of man to obtain data
; to be published in form to assist
: growers.
: After the noon recess Prof. Perkins
, appeared with specimens of the lantana
, destroying insects and read a most in
! teresting paper to the joint session of
, the Planters and Steckmen. He show
, ed the conditions under which the Ian
: tana was spread here, and those in
: Mexico where Prof. Koebele is now
working There he said there were
Z Twenty three enemies of the lantana
> and two fungoid growths as well. The
difficulties of sending the enemies was
Z ldwelt upon and it was shown that many
, of these die in the course of transit
3 | from parasites. It was set out that the
, enemies were not of the same charae-
ter as the blight on Maui, but were
8 swift flying and in consequence as they
would not mate in confinement there
was grave doubt of their becoming
3 active workers until their numbers in
, creased by importation. Of the species
handled he said none had been intro
duced which would be fatal to other
, vegetation.
Much interest was shown in the paper
8 of Prof Perkins and he was questioned
, by many members as TO the dangers to
Z other plants.
q Resuming their discussions the Plan
> tiers took up the matter of better statis-
:. tics. 1t was pointed out that there
' were different systems followed by
plantation chemists, and that this made
it impossible for all to arrive at just
\ comparisons. The plan for chemists
| association was discussed at some
/ length, the sentiment being that there
ought to be a uniform system of chemi-
l cal control of the sugar mills, and some
] members suggesting that Director
Eckhardt, perhaps with other chemists
I formulate a plan and then the man
| ayers see that it is followed.
III On motion of T. c. Davies the chem
l lists of the various plantations were re-
quested to make recommendations tc
| the Planters Association as to the
81 proper method of chemical control OF
/ the sugar production throughout the
4 islands.
The report of Prof. Perkins on dis
eases of cane was read by Andrew
/ Adams, at length. 1t was devoted in
! great extent to the leaf hopper of Java
I which has been observed on Oahu and
/ Kauai. It's work. is shown in the RED
blotches on the leaves. The presence
1 of the enemy in the cane was shown. and
it was suggested that experiments
should be made upon methods of funi-
eating the imported cane. to kill the
enemies AS to the cane borer Prot
Perkins said he considered that examf-
\ nations made recently of /cocoanuts
/ from Samoa, where in thef coverings
| there were many borers establishes the
source of the pest. Some establishment
of a fumigating plant at the expert
ment station was urged. The work OF
the Japanese beetle in the cane, as well
as the presence of the mould cricket,
were noted at length.
II Manager Forbes of Kukuihae1e, spoke
4 of the forestation of the Hamakua
II burned district, saying that he found
ri grass growing where the great fires had
At 100 1rlr
htree shoots. He said that a man with a
plow could open up the ground for the
planting of seeds of trees now, but If
the Hilo grass should be given much
= more start there would be no way to
I reforest except by hand, which would
be at great expense. He said there
] could not be laid on the presence OF
I the forests too much stress, and urged
some action to have the forests con-
/ served.
j. NJ Horner sent in a paper dealing
with similar subjects, saying in one
| place that the presence of the cattle
beneath the trees kept down the I'M
| dergrowth and prevented the spreading
of fires. While the stock might damage
| the young trees, in grown forests they
| were valuable. He showed that where
I it took fifty years to grow forest nat
4 eAC hC" ~ QCS III hACCo hAAoN
| be planted so that they would grow
1 | valuable within ten years.
III A very interesting report on irrfga-
ton by M. M. O'Shaughuessy was read,
in which he traced the character of the
1 old works and gave valuable sugges-
II tons as to the handling of water sup
| plies.
L. A. Thurston called attention to the
. action of H, P. Baldwin in fencing IN a
large tract on Maui to prevent the de-