Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-11-17

more Juice in the leaves the more food
for the young hoppers and greater
amount of the resultant honey dew in
which flourish the fungus diseases. We
have therefore thought 1t better prac.
tice to cut down the percentage OF nj.
trogen in the fertilizer at time Of plant.
ing to a point that would priouuce no
excessive growth Of leaf and stalk and
thus renuer the leaves ard and fibrous
rather than soft and succuient curing
the winter months when the hopper Is
most active.
! Where the leaves are dry and fibrous
the adult hopper does not seem to lay
as many eggs owing perhaps to the
...aculty OF depositing them properly,
or not being placed far enough into the
cenular tissue Of the hard leaves, they
project above the surface where ants,
the larvae of the lace wing fly and per.
Eaps other insects devour them before
they can hatch. II, as the entomolo.
gists tell us. the presence Of an album.
dance of food causes the wingless yari.
ETY. of hopper to appear. Is not tne APT.
plication of large amounts of so.uO.e
nitrogen conducive to the development
of the wlngless hopper which they say
lays the most eggs? When the warm
months of spring arrive and the wing.
less hoppers have disappeared and the
egg laying is about over. tnen we ap.
ply the nitrogen which had been taken
from the fertilizer applied at time of
! planting.
Albert Horner submitted n general
report on handling and transportation
or cane. from which is taken the iol.
lowing extract:
% Ii was stated early in this pa
per that the principal thing to be uone
after cutting the cane was to keep the
mill supplied DO we all do this? IL
we do 1t now by manual labor have we
any assurance that II can be uUne by
manual labor n year or two hence?
And even II we have the assurance that
by manual labor, have we the further
assurance that It will not cost q great
deal more?
BY way Of illustration, your atten.
ton is drawn TO the fact that on the
Island of Oahu, while the rate paid for
loading cane by manual labor by con.
tract was 161f cents per ton of cane.
! four, at least, Of the large plantations,
representing an output of at least 49,
900 tons sugar. were unable to keep
their mills fully supplied. Had ma.
chimes been In their fields which would
have enabled tnem to keep their mills
running to their full capacity, It would
have saved them money, even H. their
machine had cost more TO load than
contract loading.
.(2) In the two tests given here
W. at Eva, the canes were loaded
lclean: there were no scattered canes
THE cleaning alone remained. Now the
writer Is certain that on tne tests maut
the cost OF gieaning was not more thar
2 cents per ton of cane loaded. II thi,
be added to the cost of loading cane b,
! say the Wilson.Webster loader, a,
shown at Eva Plantation on Oahu, W,
have 1876 cents per ton of cane repre-
!. senting cost Of removing same from
field and placing on cars.
Let us now see what 1t costs by man
ual labor for loading canes on the sam
basis. The following figures are takel
I from replies kindly forwarded to tn
chairman OF your committee by tn
} managers Of the various Islands. From
the tables given, 1t will be found tina
the cost OF loading cane. loading sea
tered cane and cleaning by system Q
portable track and railroad Is:
Plantations on Oahu average 22.2
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