The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-21


the great industries of the Hawaiia
Islands If the planters get together an
study it from beginning to end as the
have done with the sugar industry. ]
took the pineapple industry twentv-fy
years to come to the front, but it wa
because the industry was not properI
and thoroughly studied at the start
The earlier planters gathered the ex
perience, but they didn' t make an,
money. [ should hate to see the eottor
industry in Hawaii have the same his
tory
L. j. Sedgewick, the sugar expert
said as above yesterday in speaking OF
the chances for the development of the
| cotton industry in these islands. While
| satisfied that ultimate success wonld
greet the efforts of the cotton growers
if the proper study of conditions were
made at the beginning, Mr.. Sedgewick
does not belittle the difficulties in the
work. He compared the work which
would have to be done with the work
which has already been and is now be-
ing done in Peru, where he had occa-
sion to look into the matter. Mr.. Sedge.
wick discredits all claim to be an ex-
pert with regard to the growing of cot
ton, but it is kindred industry to that
which he is interested in, sugar. and
he therefore has not inconsiderable
knowledge regarding it.
If the planter intending to 90 into
this business of growing cotton in Ha-
wal should, by any chance, think it
a get-rich-quick proposition, he had far
better stay out of it. If, however, it is
his aim to build up an industry that
can live through hard and good times.
l strongly advise him to stay with it.
While | am not certain about the exact
acreage of cotton in Hawaii at the
present time, | think that it is all in |
the experimental stage.
What the development of this in |
dustry in Hawaii means is a whole lot.
1t means, in the first place, number
Of new independent industries added to
the list, as, ginning factories, baling
factories, cotton seed oil factories, cot
ton mills for the making of fabric, and
several others. | would not advise the
tearing up of one acre of ground that
S now in money-making crop, such as
.1np fIhnFn mid hob |
number of trials to find the location
n which cotton would grow best in
he Islands. | am under the impression
hat the prevailing winds will be
actor which will have to be taken un,
Ter consideration, the excess of rain
mother, and it may be that the red
llrt which is found in some localities
would stain the cotton. Those are all
matters which would have to be gone
INTO thoroughly in the growing of cot /
on here, else it would not be a sue
ess for considerable time to come.
I'm Peru the cotton industry is see ]
nd only to sugar The annual output ,
5 between $4,000 and $4,000 tons of {
IN cotton. great deal of the prod ]
ct is used right in the couotry for
laking fabric, the rest being mostly t
hipped to England. t
Cotton was known there in the very $
arly days, and in the graves of the I
ncient Incas cotton cloth has been I
ound, as well as the cotton seed The S
10th thus found is fine-woven and care. /
nlly dyed, and, owing to the dry S
Innate and no rain, the colors are of t
IN found just as perfect as they were
hen the cloth was first put in the I
round 4
In some ways the cotton industry n
ahead of the sugar industry in Peru. v
hey raise about 700 pounds of clear t
otton to the acre. planting once every b
vo years. In this time they have two t
rops, and sometimes three, if the land b
especially suitable. Piura is the s
reat cotton district, and here both g
lie brown and the native cotton is a
rown. OF course. it also is grown all IL
ong the coast. Sea Island and Egyp- t
an are the two most common yarie- s.
es. Peruvian guano is used for fer e
llzer, and the soil is plowed and cul-
waited by the smaller planters with G.
Ken, the larger planters using steam f
ows. The fields are laid out in rows W
bout four feet apart, the seed being Il
anted about three feet apart. All Of b
rs is kept under irrigation, and very Il
equent irrigation during the first few is
onths.
When mature-about seven months | A
ter planting-the cotton picking is
me by the natives, working on a so :,
uch per hundred weight basis. Gull q
walton consists in wedding and throw. :
G dirt once to the plant, thus throw Ia
G the irrigation furrow between the &c
WIS instead of on the seed. After the e.
OPP is harvested. the plants are cut &c
few inches above the ground. and =
'out three months later begins, irri-
Itlon, cultivation, and fertilization for
e rattoon crop.
They claim that the cotton is pro- !.
iced at cost of six and one-haIf
nts, gold, per pound. The prices for p
tton IN the country run from ten to f.
urteen cents, gold. The ginning ma e.
1nery is of the most up-to-date tvpe =,
ID the presses used are hydraulic and =,
tomato, this usually completing the +
stailation of the small cotton plant. .,
'me' however, carry the business far
er and have cotton seed oil mills on -
cir plantations. Besides. there are [
htral cotton seed oil mills in the
rgest cities. x
Inc process of extracting the oil -
ON the seed is very intricate one, n