The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-12

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few instances was any sugar remelted
on any of his plantations, only IN case
! the sugar was very poor. This, he
thought, was the rule on most of the
Hawaiian plantations. Mr.. DEER said
| that in Java it was much the same as
here; some plantations did one thing
and some another.
RAINFALL AFFECTS PERCENT
AGE OF SUCROSE.
| C. F. Eckart, director of the agri-
culture and chemistry division of the
! Experiment Station, gave the results
of his experiments in an investigation
of the falling off of the sucrose con-
/ tents of the cane harvested in 1907
over that harvested in 1906, placing
the blame for this on the excessive
rainfall during those months when
! the cane should be ripening. The fact
that the purity had remained constant
/ was evidence of the fact that the de-
/ crease in sucrose was not due to fun
| gold growth or insect pest.
MODERN MILL EQUIPMENT.
| w. ]. Dyer, of the Honolulu Iron
Works, read a practical paper on sugar
. v.
Prior to 1895 the machinery and
process of manufacture in our cane
factories was equal to that of any
cane sugar country in the world and
the equipment in most cases being SUI
perior, as for example the output of
sugar in the Hawaiian Islands about
this time was practically the same as
in Louisiana, where there We're APP
proximately 500 mills in comparison
with so in Hawaii, handling the same
! amount of product. AT the same time
Hawaii could boast of, perhaps, the
largest cane sugar factory in the
world having a capacity of 100 tons
of raw sugar in a ten-hour day, there
were, however, individual factories in
Louisiana which, to say the least, were
the equal of ours, but in comparison
with the beet sugar industry we were
far behind in efficiency both of eXtrac-
ton and manufacture and it was not
until 1898 with the establishment of the
Oahu Sugar Co.'S plant that we could
Justly claim to be anywhere near an
equal footing with the beet sugar
countries The above mentioned mill
was fitted with all modern appliances
which had proven successful in the
leading beet sugar factories in Europe.
From that time, which was during the
period of annexation of these Islands
to the United States of America, mill
construction and improvements pro-
ceeded with leaps and bounds until at
the present day we can justly claim
and are acknowledged by the cane
sugar world to be the leaders not alone
in the cultivation of cane but in the
manufacture of sugar from same.
Il,,1+ Of 10 1inp-
roller milling plant at Eva and later
of the twelve-roller installation at
Oahu Plantation, the milling of cane
has changed it's aspect entirely and in
place of tearing machinery to pieces
in an Intellectual attempt to squeeze
the sucrose contents from the cane the
more rational method of maceration
has been universally adopted and has
now almost reached the extent of a.
diffusion, in fact many of our mills
apply the maceration in front of the
first mill so as to fully obtain the
benefit of this system of extraction
as it is well known that no amount of
pressure on the rolls can make up IN
extraction for lack of proper ana
adequate maceration.'
Reference was made in the address
to the new machinery installed at the
various plantations, juice measuring
and weighing machines, filter presses,
crvstallizers, sugar dryers and refining
: plants being dealt with. OF the in
stallation of the first refining machin-
ery in the Islands, Mr.. Dyer said:
THE present year has seen the in
stallation at the Honolulu Plantation,
Afea. of a complete bone char filter
! plant. for the making of white sugar.
This plant had a preliminary run at
the end of the present grinding season,
the result being all that was anticl-
mated. This is the first actual refinery
that has been installed or operated in
l these islands. and the results from the
4 same will be looked forward to with
4 much interest. For the present the
product will be white graduated sugar
only. and the installation of the neces-
sary machinery for the manufacture
of cubes. dominoes. powdered and otn-
err varieties of marketable sugars VIII
n of course be a very simple matter II
i the trade requirements demand II.
AS Mr. Dyer is not MEMBER OF
il the association and had contributed
the paper at the request of the score
| tary. a vote of thanks was passed.
SWEATING OF RAW SUGAR.
7 \. s. Williams of Kahului, Maui
contributed a valuable paper on the
sweating of raw sugar, which was reao
N bv Secretary Mead. Mr.. Williams ad-
yanced the theory that the sweating
of sugar was due principally TO the
absorption of moisture from the ar
i having noted that sugar stored on the
windward sides of the islands sweated
while that stored in such places as the
railroad wharf warehouse at Honolulu
ESCAPED. He placed the blame for
\ some of the trouble on the presence OF
some noxious bacterium in the sugar
Mr.. Baldwin called to the attention
4 of the members the elusiveness OF the
\ American Hawaiian people in escaping
i from any possible blame for damages