The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-06
MILLIONS IN
ALCAROBA
BEANS
Experiments Will Be
Made to Utilize
This Feed.

Hawaii imports a quarter of mil
Hon dollars worth of stock foods ev-
cry year, and the amount is increas-
ing. If a lOeaIly-grown fodder could
be secured to take the place of this
food stuffs, the Territory would profit to
that extent every year. The Promotion
Committee is now taking steps to see
If this saving to the Territory can not
be made.
Hawaii produces now valuable food
product, the algaroba bean. Cattle are
extremely fond of it and eat it greedily,
but unfortunately in its natural state
only a small part of the food content
can be assimilated by the animal. If
1T can be so prepared that the bean
proper, the hard little berry, which
contains valuable food properties, can
be digested, there will be no necessity
of sending for any other cattle food,
while at the rate the algaroba is in
eTeasing throughout the group there
r4ay probably be within a short time
an article of export added to the Ha-
waiian list.
Professor krauss, of the Federal Ex-
pertinent Station, has been Investigate
ing the food properties of the algaroba
and as result of analysis has diseov-
cred that the bean, pod and all, con-
tains the necessary elements for an al
most perfect food. He has taken the
Of m
with the Quaker Oats manufacturers,
with a view to seeing what could be
done in the milling line with the bean.
The big millers find, however, after
experimenting with various sample lots
sent them. that there is no milling ma
chinery now that can handle them. The
pod is so completely saturated with the
sweet mueilaginous gum that all ma
chinery tried clogs up almost as soon
as the beans are started through.
d. p. R. Isenberg is another who has
sought means of milling, grinding,
crushing or chOpping the beans, having
sent samples to milling firms in Ger
many. There also gum has been found
an obstacle in the way of using ma
ehinery for the predigestion processes.
From statistics available it is known
that algaroba beans can be gathered
now at a cost of $3.50 a ton, while
their food value. if all the constituents
could be utilized, is $500 a ton. If
machinery can be found of not too ex-
pensive aAkind to prepare the beans at
a maximum cost for milling of $1,000 |
a ton, the saving to Hawaiian stock |,
men would be great.
All these possibilities, figures and ex- !
perimental results were discussed at the !
meeting of the promotionists yesterday |
and the committeeman resolved to
tackle the question and ascertain if |
some machinery suitable could not be I
secured.
The first move of the committee will
AsAto secure a ton or so of the beans,
divide these into several parcels, and
ship them to America and Europe to be
experimental with. The idea of the
promotionists is to send the beans to
various chambers of commerce with a
request that they be distributed among
the leading firms of mill machinery man
ufacturers within the chambers juris-
dictiOn. The British chamber of eom-
merce, the Paris chamber and the Ber
lin chamber will be communicated with,
as well as chambers in New York and
Chicago. These bodies would he pro
noting their own business by acting in
this way for Hawaii and would prob
ably receive better attention than if re-
quests for experiments were sent the
direct from here.
Advertise Our Golfng.
F. L. WaldrOn, in a communication,
that the committee secure a
number OF panoramic photographs OF
the Honolulu Country Club golf links
and present these to the leading golf
clubs of the mainland and the Orient,
with view of attrseting golf enthu-
siasts to Hawaii. The committee ap
proved enthusiastically of the idea and
R. X Bonine will be asked to secure
the views with his new panoramic
camera.
Carnegie Professors Wanted.
President Willard Brown suggested
the advisability of securing the ad-
dresses of the various college professors
who have retired on. the Carnegie fund,
IN order that they might be cOmmuni-
,ated with and the advantages of Ha-
faii as a pleasant place to live pointed
cot. This viii he done.
Floral Parade Posters.
tt was reported that the order for
-m Floral Parade posters had been for
FaTded to a Chicago lithographing firm
lt the suggestion of the manager of
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