The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-07
EXPERTS ARE PLEASED
WITH AAMAKUA TOBACCO
Finer For Mixing With the Havana Product Than
Any That Is Grown on the Mainland
Of the United States.

HILO, August 4-The Tribune prints
this story: The Hawaiian Experiment.
a! Station on the Louisson plantation
in Hamakua is producing some Won
derfuI results in the growth of tobac-
co. In conversation with Mr.. c. r.
Blacow, who is in charge OF the to-
bacco culture, Tribune representative
learned that he now has three acres of
land under cultivation, and that he is
growing from six to eight varieties of
tobacco on the place. Among those
grown are some from Havana seed
ling. Connecticut Seeding, Comstock
Spanish, DINNER Spanish. Sumatra,
Japan, Hawaiian and Vuelta Abajo
Havana seed. Some Of these varieties
grow to the height of six to ten feet
with stalks two inches in diameter.
ure from thirty-six to forty inches in
length and from twelve to fifteen
jo being of a finer quality measures
from twelve to twenty-five inches in
length and from eight to fourteen
inches in width. On account of the
larger leaves of the coarser quality, an
acre of land will produce about from
1900 to 1000 pounds per acre, while the
vuelta Abajo will produce only about
1000 pounds to the acre. It takes about
one mans attention for every acre
during the maturing of the crop. In
Hawaii we can obtain two crops in
one year. At the experimental station
they are planting and taking off crops
every month in the. year. After the
crop is off it has to be cured for about
eight months. Mr.. Walter S. Mclean,
manager of the tobacco department of
the Hilo Mercantile Co., obtained
about three pounds Of the cured
tobacco grown on the island and
forwarded the same to the manufac-
turers of the famous Ell Pelancia Clear
Havana and the Ell Merito cigars. He
has received a box of these Hawaiian
cigars. which he declares to be excel
lent in their aroma and the fineness of
their smoke. He also received the fol-
lowing letter from the manufacturer,
which indicates the quality of tobacco
grown in Hawaiian soil:
Philadelphia, July 6, 1905.
Mr.. w. S. Mclean, Hilo, H. 1.
Dear Sir: We mail you today under
separate cover, a twenty-five box of
cigars made Of your tobacco. The
writer, Mr.. B., is smoking one while
debating this letter, and is surprised
to find such a sweet, clean smoke pro-
duced from the Connecticut seed. The
tobacco itself is what we would con-
slider a very good, sweet, domestic to-
bacco, having a superior quality of this
class, and would compete with tobacco
raised in this country sold to the
manufacturer at from 10 to 10 cents a
pound. 1t will, of course, depend
largely upon what farmer could raise
per acre to ascertain whether it would
become a profitable investment to
grow crop.
We should like to have the pleasure
of a further experiment if there are
any farmers in your locality who have
raised any tobacco; we would like to
have about so or 100 pounds of it,
which would enable us to investigate
it more thoroughly than we have done
with the small sample we have had to
experiment with.
AS we are aware that your country
produces a great deal of sugar, it ap.
pears to US that you should be able to
grow finer quality tobacco from Ha-
vana seed on your sugar soil. or soil
similar to that of the sugar land. To-
bacco raised from the vuelta Abajo
Havana seed. of course. will not pro-
duce the same number of lbs per acre
as our domestic tobacco, but if sue
cessful in the growing of it, and pro-
duclng at least part of its character
OF the Cuban aroma, the farmer in
your country should be able to realize
considerable more money for his to
bacco.
The burning quality of your sample
is exceptionally good. and the taste of
1t we take pleasure in saying would be
likely to grow upon a man smoking a
nickel cigar, and to be Manipulated
with a good Hawaiian tobacco. We be-
lieve it has the character and features
that it would bring good results.
To give you an idea how to test the
cigar with Havana tobacco take and
light cigar of your tobacco, and at
the same time take fine Havana ci-
gar-draw the smoke from both the
cigars at the same time-this will give
you an idea of how fine a smoke vour
tobacco would produce if it was placed
with, say, half Havana tobacco. In
our estimation it makes a finer smoke
TO mix with Havana tobacco than anv
of our ordinary domestic tobacco TO-
day on the market, and by all means
the pleasure and taste of it is very
much superior to the tobacco grown in
Florida, which is now so successfu,,v