The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-22
THE NAA|KU
RUBBER co.
Holds a Special Meeting
for Purposes Of In
formation.

An informal meeting of the Nahiku
Rubber Company was held at Republi-
can eadquarters last night.
Mr.. Anderson, manager of the COM
pany's plantation, attended and answer
ed questions about the conditions OF
things there. w. w Hall presided and
a score of people We're present.
Asked how soon he would have the
500 acres of the estate planted, Mr..
work completed next year, though the
prospectus gave three years.
From 720 seedlings planted after the
first of January this year $50 trees
We're growing. Three hundred were
permanently set out. In height the
young trees ranged from feet to feet
inches. Eighty-five thousand seeds
We're planted in beds in May, of which
2525 came up owing to bad seed. Just
before leaving Nahiku on his present
visit to town Mr.. Anderson had planted
1900 seeds and there We're $1,000 on
hand still to be planted.
He explained that seeds obtained
from highly reputed house in Paris
had turned out badly. Director Jared
G. Smith of the U. S. Experiment Sta
ton had told him there was no doubt
the house would make good. Louis
Toussaint caused smiles by his ques-
tioning the wisdom of buying rubber
seeds in Paris. ST am a Frenchman."
he remarked. but France does not
grow rubber"
Returning to his account Of planting,
Mr.. Anderson told of 1900 seeds, the
greater portion Nevea, planted in June
They had put in between %, 600 and
$4,000 trees, of which s5 per cent. were
growing
Mr.. Hall said that, according to the
prospectus they were to have $4,000
trees planted this year, but now they
seeds from two houses in Cey'on in
equal portions. Some time ago 10000
stumps were cabled for, and they had
just cabled for 50,000 more.
Mr.. Anderson explained the culture
from stumps. They come like bundles
of dried sticks and when planted the
tops die away, the living growth being
derived from sprout that terminates
at the root. Sometimes the sprout will
run lateraIly several inches under
ground before poking it's head above
the surface. All the plants, so far as
terminated, were doing well. Some
had come from Ceyion roughly packed
ingly of low vitality came up in three
weeks.
Five plants of the Castilloa from. Mes
leo received from the Government about |
the middle of May all lived and are
now 21-2 feet high
The soil at Nahiku was about the |
tions. 1t was better than that of Cey-
lon and nearly as good as the soil at
the mouth of the Amazon. Mr. Shaw |
remarked that on part. of the land he
had raised AZ tons of sugar cane to the |
acre without fertilizing.
There are % men now employed on
the plantation, divided between Portu- |
guese and Japanese. When the tapping
season comes. about 80 men will be
required.
The manager has contract out for |
clearing 80 acres at a cost of about |
80 an acre, but when it comes to Ian
tana clearing the expense will be 81 or
So greater
The plantation is situated six to eight
road leads.
A rubber tree planted at Nahiku in
1898 now measures As inches in girtn. |
At the meeting a sample of rubber
made from this tree was handed around
for inspection. 1t is calculated that
about a pound and a half of rubber
a season will be the average yield OF
a tree.
Mention was made of cacao culture
experiment as a side issue on the plan