The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-30
PINEAPPLES ARE
BEING CANNED
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beling. to go to the ends of the world
for table luxury.
Every one whose work it is to handle
the pines themselves before the can is
reached wears rubber gloves to pro-
tect the fingers against the biting acid
| of the fruit In readiness for the sea-
son s work the Iwilei company i'm
| ported $4,000 worth of these rubber
gloves, one of the smaller items of ex-
pense, but showing that the pineapple
| eannerv is no little business.
This year the company's payroll will
carry between seven hundred and eight
hundred names. This year. every day,
three hundred and sixty bags of sugar
will 90 to sweeten the pines canned,
while each day some eight thousand
eases of canned fruit will be piled up
for shipment in the big warehouse.
Manager Dole, while discussing the
general pineapple situation yesterday,
expressed an opinion that the pineapple
business would be overdone if many
went into the raising of the raw product
without first contracting for the sale
of the pines either as raw product for
some cannerv or as canned fruit. He
admits that the demand for canned
pines is growing, his company at the
present time shipping TO dealers in
Japan, China, the Philippines, France,
Germany. and England, in addition to
the big mainland business.
The Hawaiian Company is buying no
fruit from Independent growers, how
ever. all the contracts they had having
expired and their own fields promising
a yield sufficient to keep their cannery
at work all season. The Eames can
merry has been buying some pines. pay
ing at the rate of $25 ton for pines |
not less than three and half pounds |
weight each, with a big cut in price
for smaller pines. They have about |
reached a point. however. where they
would not be justified in taking on |
other pines than their own. The Con-
solidated are buying pines from the
small farmers still. and the canneries |
on the other islands are still working !
their plants on pines contracted for
from Independent growers
One important addition to the Iwilei |
plant, installed since the running off |
of the winter pack, is erusher for the
extraction of the juice from the cores
and parings, which formerly had been
piled in heaps in the yards and the
odor of which assailed high heaven and
drove the seavengers off the garbage
dumps. Now this is changed The re-
fuse from the parers and eOreIs is run
through the crusher. which operates like
a sugar roller, squeezing the Juice out
and dumping the almost dry scraps into
a big silo tank. The juice is run off in
a private sewer and favors the waters
of Kalihi bay.
This juice viii before long be util-
lied and worked up into valuable by
products. II NAV be that a pineapple /
brandy will some day be distilled from
1t, the only drawback to this utilization
being the fact that a distilling plant
would have to be big one to handle
the juice output through the canning
season, and would then have to lie idle
for several months each year during the
off season. II might be found possible
for such a distillery to buy the mo-
lasses by-produets of the sugar mills
for rum manufacture during the periods
when the plant would otherwise be pill II
ing M interest charges and nothing
else; but so far. what tentative adj
vances have been made to the planta-
lions have not been cordially received. ;
1t is possible that this season a DOR
tion of this juice will be converted into
fruit vinegar, while pineapple syrups
and pineapple extracts NAV also result.
It has been suggested that possibly
a pineapple sugar might be made
through boiling the juice in a vacuum
to the crystalIizing point, the vacuum
being necessary because the pineapple
favor is contained in a volatile eIe- [
ment Of the Juice and passes off as a /
Fapor at point considerably below the
temperature of boiling water exposed I
to the air.