Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-16
obove mar. and are beginning TO oeciai

above par, ana are pes1iii--s'
large dividends ..o ,,,os q time of
high tide in the sugar ousin 80 started
number of new plantations We're So &c
with large capital. There was stioils
boom in the business. NUMBERS u me-,
vested on speculation, Whlch SuosequSne.y
ba nlxrupted them. A number or the new
Tndartakinecs failed entirely, while the rest
iad a struggling existence 1t lnVarlapiy
takes a new plantation from mVe " eis 81
wears before it begins to pay 1here are a..
WAYS inexperience, defective manaselnell
and unforeseen difficulties. The great poom
was succeeded by more than four years Oh
great depression due mainly to the decline
of sugar prices, as Wen as 10 t ioriSeaoe'''
lack of money in general clrcuiatlon-
some six weeks ago there was a prlei
squirt of activity in plantation SHARES last
ing some ten days, during when several
much discredited concerns prousn. piI De-,
double and treble of late quotations. But
there was little money In clrculatlon anu
a very SOLDERING memory or recent ClsaSters.
Prices have again slumped more than hait
way back except in the case or rev very
prosperous concerns. Prospects are, how
ever regarded as very hopeful, ana there is
little doubt that within year quite a
number of depressed concerns Will De
quoted well on to par.
Rayages of the Leaf Hopper.
very disastrous insect enemy of our
plantations has developed within the last
two years, called the leaf hopper. In
some localities the yield of sugar has been
diminished by more than half. However,
the parasite of the leaf hopper has been
discovered by our experienced agents IN
Australia. and is we'll at work, so that we
have excellent prospects of speedily over
coming that enemy. 1t has become an es-
tablished certainty here, as we'll as In Cal
ifornia that whenever new insect enemy
of our agriculture appears, there only mas
to be a careful search made by competent
entomologists in the country whence the
pest originated, and its antidote VIII be
found, certain to destroy and keep 1t en-
stance of this rule has been that of the
terribly destructive cottony-cush1on'
apties, which nearly ruined the citrous or
chards of California before it was extermi-
mated by the still more active Vedalia card
malls, q very pretty lady-bug. Undoubtedly
your gipsy moths and other insect pests in
the Atlantic states can be similarly extermi-
mated whenever you set competent bug
hunters to find their antidotes, as We In
Hawaii have been doing for fifteen years.
Just now we are in much need of the para
site to destroy very vicious melon fly.
MuskmeIons have disappeared from our
market and cucumbers and watermelons
are scarce.
Production of Pineapples.
lust now one of our prosperous minor in
dustries is the production of pineapples. On
this Island of Oahu, some twenty miles
north of this city, on the beautiful Wa
hiawa and Waipia uplands, are several can
neries, which have been exporting the fruit
to California with great success. The fresh
fruit also has been successfully exported In
considerable quantities. We have the best
and most productive varieties. Probably
no~fruit SO well retains its native fragrance