The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-28

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lon, and the yield is greater. This is
the most rapid growth for the Hevea
Cor Para) rubber tree attained any
where in the world so far.
These plantations have from fifty to
one thousand or more acres in yield
Ing, some of them having been doing
sc for several years on a larger and
larger scale each year. Many of them
have a larger number of acres coming
into bearing during the next few years.
and all are planting up very rapidly
now that there is no doubt of the i'm
mense profit in plantation rubber
, A number Of these plantations We're
originally in coffee, the rubber being
planted among the coffee trees. But,
seeing that rubber growing was SO lu-
trees grew older, and larger areas We're
planted with rubber alone. In those
localities where the coffee is not paying
the advent of rubber has proved a veri-
table Godsend to those planters who
were fortunate enough to have had
faith in plantation rubber" when it
was first introduced. Most of the land,
however, in rubber, is on virgin soil,
where it grows best, the forest being
cut down and burned preparatory to
planting. The stumps of the forest
trees are left to rot away, as they do
long before the rubber comes into bear
ing.
Two hundred to three hundred or
more trees are planted to the acre so
that the plantation looks like an ordi-
nary forest, only that the lines of tree
trunks indicate the regular planting,
and as almost all the trees in view
We're planted about the same time there
is one even canopy of leaves overhead
and nothing grows under the dense
shade which it casts.
1t is quite picturesque to see band
of Tamil coolies gliding along. as only
those 1.-the Indians can glide, without
a sound but the rustic of the leaves
under their feet as they pass from tree
trunk to tree trunk in tapping.
The average yield Of the trees is about
oue-fourth of a pound in the fourth
year, one-half in the fifth, three-fourths
to one pound in the sixth, one to one
and one-third pounds in the seventh,
and increasing each year thereafter.
The trees are apt to yield earlier and
more largely when planted two hundred
to the acre, though larger number
of trees per acre makes UP the amount
or surpasSeS it for a time, even though
each tree does not yield so much. When
the trees are large enough to yield
several pounds they have to be thinned
out considerably, leaving about one
hundred to one hundred and fifty to the
acre.
There are about, two hundred trees
ern part of the Peninsula, about 10
years old, yielding at present six or
seven pounds year per tree. They
have been tapped regularly, as is done
on the plantations, for several years.
The trees here can be tapped as early
as the fourth year, especially when
only a single ''V'' incision is made at
time as is done on the plantation
partly owned and managed by Mr..
Frank Pears, assisted by his brother.
They are sons Of Sir A. Pears of the
we'll known London firm Of A. & F.
Pears. On his plantation, there is not
tree over five and one-half years Of age.
but from one hundred acres, mostly of
four-year-old trees and some five and
five and one-half years old, he is OBJ
tanning nine hundred pounds of rubber
month. Next year, he will have five
hundred acres in bearing and is at pres
ent opening up two or three thousand
acres more. Mr. Pears thinks the single
''v'' incision will get more rubber pro-
portionatelv to the amount of labor
than any ether method. When only