The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-19

was the hest obtainable and expert
ments with different kinds of cane and
different methods of planting and fer
tilizing were constantly in progress.
The mill is still good. but entirely out
of date and inadequate.
Five hundred of the $50 hectares OF
, this station might be planted in sugar
cane, to furnish revenue in whole or in
part for the maintenance of the agri-
cultural college about to be established
here.
/. AT present about 45 per cent of the
juice is wasted, and hundreds of la
borers on a hacienda are frequently
employed to sun-dry the bagasse
(waste) that should be ready to burn
on leaving the rollers and passing
over the furnace. Such things as va
cuum pans and centrifugals are un-
known.
Sugar and hemp are the two crops
which will do best in our soil and 1oca-
ton; we have planted 140 acres of su-
gar and 40 acres of hemp and would
recommend that these acreages be
largely increased in the future The
hemp. excepting 20 acres not included
in the above, will not yield revenue
for two years; but next years sugar
crop should be 5000 piculs.
The methods of producing sugar
cane in this section are far in advance
of its system of milling and, except in
one NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. little
room for Improvement
When a new tract of land is to be
planted. if the timber is already re
moved (as is generally the case) the
land will be found to be grown up to
cogon, wild bananas. and pampas grass
to the height of to 10 feet, respective
Iy. At a favorable opportunity this
can be bar ed off, and the new growth
that springs up in a week should be
pastured by cattle or carabaos. Re-
peated cutting of the stalks of wild
bananas and cropping by cattle must
result in their final eradication from
the land.
IF burned in April, and the fields
pastured until the following December,
the cogon will be pretty thoroughly
killed. and it's place taken by other
grasses of shorter length, which are
more readily eradicared by blowing. If
the cogon is not destroyed before plow-
ing. repeated blowing will be necessary
to eradicate the roots
Moving the grass before blowing
has been found less effective than
blowing and narrowing, since by the
latter method the harrow removed a
much greater quantity of roots. The
method employed is the following:
Some time between January and
May the earlier the better) the land
is given one blowing with American 6
to 10inch plows. followed by har-
rowing or two; then. after two weeks
Of rest. another blowing, at least
inches. is given with an American
blow, to reach below the roots of the
logon.
"A rest of from two to three weeks
s given after the first blowing. for the
purpose of allowing the grass which
las been turned over by the pillow to
ot and die: after this. cross blowing
md narrowing will put the land in
ondition for planting. and planting
must follow Immediately
My experience with many of our
american plows is that they do not
cour in this soil and do not turn the
oil under properly. This, however
nay be because the proper model has
OF yet been selected by the importers.
After the land is prepared, burrows
re marked off about Az feet apart.
he work being done by American s.
lch plows, by an experienced work
ian who does the work accurately by ,
ne eye alone. Then double burrows
re run with plows and the tops are
lanted by hand
Tops are first soaked in water for
NO or three days; then the leaves {
re removed to expose the buds. thus /
ausing the young sprouts to appear
bove the ground about one week after
lanting. several weeks earlier than {
ould be the case otherwise. I
The tops are about u inches long, I
nd are planted u to 20 inches apart l
the rows. lying on an incline of f
bout 80 degrees. with the last buds