The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-20
RUBBER GROWING
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made by DR.. Wilcox, the report tina
contained the facts as TO the cost o
production. The speaker made all hi
statements in conservative language bu
stated plainly that in his opinion tn
commercial success of the industry wa
clear The data from which the con
illusions We're deduced was secured dur
ing the past few months from worl
done at Nahiku. There the Experiment
Station and the Board of Agriculture
and Forestry had stationed men, IN
structed them in the work of tapping
and kept careful tab on the work done
The country worked over was large
embracing spots in three plantations
the experiments consisting of the tap
ping of over two hundred trees, al
young Ceara trees less than three years
old.
Various systems of tappings We're
tried and the most successful determin-
ed. The latex was collected and the
rubber coagulated and dried, the speak
er showing the result of the work in
4 number of pounds of crude rubber,
made up into little cakes having the
of pancakes.
After detailing his deductions, DR..
Wilcox stated that a further series of
test tappings would be undertaken to
learn what hours were most proftably
in the woods in tapping, while
would be profitable to use some highly
soluble and stimulating fertilizer at the
tapping periods to see if the flow of
latex would be increased enough to
make the use profitab bic.
The remarkable freedom from disease
of the Hawaiian rubber trees was com
mented on with satisfaction by the
speaker, who stated that in all his OBJ
servatiOns in the field here he had only
found one tree affected and that by
a moth not known as an enemy of any
species of rubber tree That one case,
he thought, had been a mistake on the
part of the moth in selecting its nest.
DR.. Waterhouse on New Species.
DR.. Waterhouse read a paper on the
new species of Manihot rubber trees,
the discovery of which had excited
great interest in the rubber world dur
ing the past two years, so much so that
the demand for seed was far greater
than the supply. These species are ma
tives of the State of Bahia and have
the rubber output of that
state eleven-fold in six years. DR. Wa
5erhouse S advice was for Hawaiian
growers to watch the progress of the
trees of these specimens now growing
n Hawaii and preserve them as seed
supply for further planting.
c. j. Austin, manager of the Nahiku
Rubber company, and c. Q. Jacobs, of
an independent planter, spoke
IN the work done by them during the
year, their remarks being confined to
he experiences gained by them in cul-
ivation and non-cultivation of the land,
he distance of trees apart and other
matters of practical interest. 1t was
agreed that cultivation was
Mr.. Jacobs related an ex-
,erience he had with keeping down Hilo
,rass by pasturing sheep on it which
lad not been profitable. The sheep ate
he grass satisfactorily but died after
few meals.
Banquet at the Young.
The annual convention came to
lappy conclusion at banquet given
" the members at the Alexander
7oung Hotel last night, at which covers
or fifty had been laid. The menu was
good one, served in the Young Hotel
,est style, after enjoying which num-
er of excellent addresses were listen
d to.
President DR. Waterhouse first called
pom Governor S. B. Dole, who ad-
ressed the pioneers of the rubber in
ustry on pioneers of other Hawaiian
avs He reminded the rubber men
hat all pioneers found difficulties to
vercome and it was in overcoming
hese difficulties that they earned the
hanks of the world. He reminded them
f the fate of the silk industry, started
\ the early days, when the promoters
ave up with the excuse that the mis-
ionaries would not allow them to feed
heir worms on Sundays. He told of
planter on Kauai who thought to go
ITO sage and planted tract with the
tarch, thinking it was sage seed, and
e drew a moral from the experience
{ Billy Beans, whose crop came up seed /
rst
''I need hardly speak of the impor
lnee of the rubber industry to Ha-
-an," said the speaker. cts impor-
lnce is apparent. [ cannot see, either, |
-hy rubber should not be something
IF the small farmer To produce it |
,quires skill but not expensive machin-
" and a man of small means could |
} into the rubber business. 1t is such |
dustries as rubber, pineapples-which
ave been proven such a success that
II production last year was greater
ian the whole consumption of the Uni
d States had been a few years ago
baccO and such things that will bring
,mes and people here, intelligence and
lterprise: and we know what these
ings will mean to the future of the
erritory in a financial way, a social
ay and in a political way. Without
ing in touch with the rubber indus
Y, I feel that it is in good hands in
await and if success is practicable
will be achieved by you.
Doubling Thomases Stimulating.
B. F. Dillingham; delivered an inspir-
9 address, urging the rubber promo |
RS not to become discouraged by in I
dental difficultia nor tO listen IN fbn =