The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-12
RICE.

During legislature we were warned that our industry
threatened unless did something towards improving
methods Of cultivation If the price of rice goes down. the price
OF the land which the rice is cultivated will down. and
will feel the pinch Rice land is bringing from
thirty fifty dollars If rents ceased to be
uVe the owners many OF whom are native f1aWalas would ma
that their incomes had fed Our rice cultivation carried
The primitive of China and is claimed that only Chinese
cultivate the cereal This being dproved the mainland
According article in the American Exporter the intro
duction of machinery is what bids fair give immense inn
petus cultivation There
artificial irrigation The installation of electric pumps
this need Adaptations of the gang plow the steam drill the
binder and the teser have also been perfected for
in the fields and the industry will it expected
take rank with wheat growing of the progressive
branches of American agriculture.
Where would sugar industry be had retained the
primitive methods OF cultivation and manufacture which obtained
forty fifty years 1t is by keeping abreast OF the
times increasing production reducing production,
MIXING by the OF the best machinery that get the ut
OF sacchane matter from the juice that obtain
the results which find satisfactory Progress has been
wachwOd the industry and have aped reward
Progress IS not watchWord in the rice industry Methods
and very clumsy methods which have been used by oriena
for thousands OF years are chung to.
description OF the methods of rice culture in the mainland
rice belt will the OF the rice planters here In the first
three months of the year the rice fields powed whether the
land dry Great gang pows drawn by mules
hasten the work Planting is well under way by May 1t is
done with drilling machine, which puts the rice in regular
depth permitting it all grow and rpen the time In
une the flood gates are opened and the water pos out of the
and lateral bitches The pumping stations
operation night and day. of the largest feeding
acres The depth Of water on the fields varies rem one to six
inches, according the rise and fall OF the land thorough
sataton all that is required; excessive quantity will neither
profit harm the plant The rice springs up with surprising
rapd and long before the drainage gates be
ed and the field cleared The ground dries rapidly and
the heavy ebnders be work They supported
by wheels of width cutting the soft earth
The shocked is wheat oats and will dry
days to be ready for threshing.
The cleaning of and its preparation for market carried
very primitive plantations and better
upon Others We do universally the power mill,
the jumping and off the beam of the FOUNDER
have the power wnnowing machine with capacity
of eleven bushels day But then the other hand do
have the American autOmatOn of complicated machinery where
the rough passes end and the graded
sacked and weighed for the market the of from
pounds day. according the capacity of the mill
If our industry hold its shall have do
with Oriental methods and adapt ourselves American
DDS The day hand when the industry will
Oriental or will cease altogether.