The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-31

Let US see what new and favorable
means are in active operation by the
aid of which we may look to equalinS
if not to rivaling in profitable earn
ings the early and long established
concerns. The industry in contrast to
the hammer and tongs" method has
come to be known as series of
scientific problems pursued along lines
in some cases proved, in others still
the subject of experiments and tests
by chemists trained in the most adj
vanced schools of Europe and the
States. and whose deductions may be
safely relied on as to final results.
The soils being the foundation have
their constituent parts defined by care
full and extended analysis. Each in
dividual part in combination with it's
closest known life productive relative
or neighbor has its productive or nom
productive saccharine power defined
In the case of lands under irrigation
the chemist is again in evidence. as
he decides on the quantity of water
to be applied to the cane so as to gain
the best results. Under his direction
Isl placed in the numerous minor gut
tiers the carefully selected and appor-
toned fertilizers with which to force
nutritive property is yielded up, and
in which it is easiest of digestion by
the numerous roots the cane plant
puts forth in greedy humor.
Side by side with the chemists are
the successful efforts of the entomolo-
gist to advance the industry by COM
batting the microbe, whose life effort
is the weakening and the killing of
the cane. In the visit of Professor Koe-
belle to Australia. and the arrival of
the parasite from there, whose life
work is not even to prey on the leaf
hopper, but to go lone better and tao
kle the hopper's eggs, is another step
in the application and advantageous
employment of science to the needs of
the industry.
Experience may be said to have
taught our plantation managers and
where is the better school found if the
pupil is acquisitive after knowledge.
No jealousy need exist individually
their emulation being one which has
always carried with it the best work
the best accord Through this has
grown a perfect understanding that
there is no new development in the in
dustry too valuable but that it is COM
municated to their association.
OdHe SeltCilOH from the various NaTI-
cites. too is now made after innumera-
bic experiments as to adaptability to
certain elevation with its relative soils.
rainfall and temperature. That en-
tirely new seed must a intervals be
substituted for that which. following
the memorable law of nature. has run
itself. or its strong original charact>
istics out is an accepted and adopted
fact: Lying faIlow'' is now a chemical
definition and meets a practical recog-
nition
Let us consider the manufacture. In
the mills there is not much left as to
results. for Improvement in the lines
which are being followed from the
mechanical appliance in use to remove
the cane from the cars. or the shooting
of the cane from the flume on to the
carrier. to the final stage. when the
bags of sugar glide on roller skates !
over the sugar-house floor. The loss |
arising through the invert sugars rep
resented by the molasses is still to be !