The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-28
ANNUAL MEETING
OF KIHEI COMPANY
CONTINUED from mage one.

tons.
Late planted cane is more readily
attacked and cannot withstand so wen
the injuries inflicted by the leaf-hopper
pest as cane planted in the proper sea-
son, which should be in a good healthy
growing condition before the hopper
season is at hand.
Very little of the cane for this crop
has tassled and at time of writing, the
majority of our fields still show a
| healthy growth
For the 1907 crop we have planted 315
acres and are carrying $40 acres of
ratoons, making a total of 745 acres for
the crop.
The planting was not finished until
December 23rd and while it was late
| in the year before we could take the
ratoons into proper cultivation, the
present appearances of the cane in
general is promising. The plant fields
of this crop that were put i'm the ground
at the proper season are looking well,
and clearly show the advantage of
early planting
The work of blowing and killing up
ratoons was finished during the middle
of January 1906,
All the cane of this crop that was
ready for fertilizer before the end of
the year. has had it's first application,
though owing to the late planting and
cultivatiug rdtoons, a good sized area
will get its full dose of this material
during the present year i'm addition to
a. half dose on all the 1908 crop, which
will be in the ground and under pro-
per cultivation at the proper season;
thus greater expenditure will be
called for in this connection during the
year 1906, than should be required in
future when succeeding crops will all
be under proper cultivation at the right
season.
The planting of this crop was much
retarded for lack of water. During the
summer months. the ditch supply is at
the lowest, while the requirements for
the growing crops are at the maximum.
The soil of this plantation, under hot,
dry climate, requires one million gal
Ions of water for each so acres under
cultivation instead of 10 acres, as in
the case of most irrigated plantations.
The water supply is inadequate for
the present cultivated area, and has
hitherton necessitated late planting ana
late ratooning. resulting i'm lower
WELD per acre than would otherwise be
: obtained and at an increased cost.
This subject has had the careful con-
sidrration of President II. II. Baldwin
and the board of directors, who have
decided that the acreage should be re-
duced to about 700 acres per crop, in
order to secure tn best results with
+ the present water supply This viii
result in planting and ratoontng IN
. proper season. and consequently, a
larger yield per acre on the other hand
. the cost of planting. fertilizing, cul-
tivating etc, win be reduced proper
tionately to acreage. Furthermore.
the increased ditch supply on the small
er acreage during a large portion of
the year. will greatly reduce the pump
ing expense. which has heretofore been
the great financial drain on this plan
tation.
The year 1905 was, unfortunately for
your plantation, an exceedingly dry
one, necessitating almost continuous
pumping throughout the year, thereby
increasing the cost of operating con-
siderabIy beyond our calculations of
ldSt year. 4Nbl W llllbllllNllllB NllS lt'N l
that we received quite a good supply of
= this water during the latter half of the
r. year, principally from the Maui Agri-
t cultural Company we found it neces-
sary to keep all pumps steadily at work
in order to give the large acreage under
cultivation for the 1906 crop it's full re-
quirements of irrigation.
, The work done by the combined pump
ing power of the plantation was 81 per
cent more i'm 1908 than during the year
1904 and the total cost of operating In
1905 only 26 per cent more than in 1904
No repair work viii he needed in
pumps this year. beyond the usua!
t. overhauling and fixing up, necessary to
= put the entire pumping plant in first
II class shape, and which work is now
I being attended to.
u The Maui Agricultural Company are
building their new large upper ditch
u through the Kailua lands. I expected
e at time of writing my last report, that
l. it would be completed i'm time for plant
ing the 1907 cane. This new ditch
= should be completed by June 1st 1905
and in good time for planting the croI
Z of 1908, provided there be continued
good rams to WlnuWard nut upon winch
we do not rely, as we have calculated
upon pumping fun from June lst t.
= November 1st In order 20 take more
=, advantage of the surplus water which
n could be sold us by the Maui Agricul'
n tural Company until their new ditch
t and our connection is completed, we
A made start doubling the capacity OF
S our present ditch through the Kailu,
|. lands and connecting with the Mau
Agricultural ditch, just after the frs
rains we had the middle of January
e 1906, and when we could depend upor
v getting surplus water from the Ha'
o waiian Commercial and Sugar Com
n pany in event Of requiring same befOr
e completion Of our extension. This ex
= tension was finished on January 3Oth
- from which we hope to get most o