The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-18
ROUTINE WORK
is CLEARED UP
9
Planters Association DiSpoSeS of
Three Reports Remaining
Still Unread.
IMPORTANT MILL SYNOPSIS
Members viii Discuss the Labor
Questions Behind Closed
Doors Today.
MILL SYNOPSIS
(From Thursday s Advertiser

fore the Hawaiian Sugar Planters As.
ISOLATION was cleared up yesterday, dur.
ing the third day of its annual session,
and there now remains but the consid.
Grafton of the important labor question,
which viii take place behind closed
doors this forenoon.
Three remaining reports were read
yesterday, the last and most important
being submitted by Noel DEER on the
annual synopsis of mill data. The other
two were, respectively, on Transports
ton and forestry.
Mr.. DEBRIS report was highly techni.
cal and equally important, dealing with
milling results as observed during the
year. The tables he presented will form
the basis for all attempted improve.
ments chemically and in the millwork
which will be done during the year, In
his introduction, in comparing the COM
position of cane by islands, he said:
In the subjoined table is given the
average composition of the cane for the
present year and also for each island
and for the whole group. AS compared
with 1909, there has been a drop in the
sugar content of the cane on Oahu and
Kauai and remarkable rise in the
sugar content on Maui. This is largely
due to the abnormally sweet cane pro-
duced on the largest plantation on that
island. The percentage of sugar re-
ferred to is 1867 per cent, which is
high for an individual cane and phe-
nomenally so for a crop average. The
cane produced on the Island of Hawaii
shows practically no variation from
that produced in 1909. The average
sugar content over the whole group is
considerably lower than last year, hav-
ing fallen from 1879 per cent to 1447
per cent. This fall in sucrose content
is reflected in the tonnage of cane per
ton of sugar, which has increased from
1857 to 7.99 tons. In part this increase
is due to the higher pOlarizations of the
sugar shipped in 1910. This has aver
aged 97.42, as compared with 97.13 in
1909.
Sugar per cent-Oahu, 1854; Maui,
1890; Kauai, IA; Hawaii, 1883; whole
group, 14,47.
Fiber per cent-Oahu, 1875; Maui,
1l.19; Kauai, 1879; Hawaii, 1891;
whole group, 1899.
Milling.
cone factory has ground all its cane
in a 15-roller MILL" continues the re-
port, in discussing milling, "and has
obtained an extraction of 1888 per
cent This is, believe the highest
figure on record for mill extraction.
Seven mills have employed 12-roller
mills with extraction varying from
92.90 to 94.0s. Putting ON one side the
Hilo Sugar Company mill for the low
extraction, for which there may be
special reasons, the work at the twelve
roller mills remains superior TO that at
the nine roller mills The Honokaa
mill has, it is true, an extraction of
oTiy 1896 per cent but it had to treat
cane containing l4.24 per cent of
fiber The Waialua Agricultural Com
pany's mill also had an extraction |
lower than the others but here again |
the fiber was high, 1911 per cent. TO
obtain a comparison between twelve |
and nine roller mills, these mills should |
be compared with others grinding cane
containing "A high percentage of fiber.
"Thirty-one mills have ground their
cane with a nine-roller equipment and
the balance of the mills have used less
than nine
In discussing miscellaneous topics re-
lated with his subject, Mr. Deerr said:
Capitalization in motion in one or
another form is in use in eleven fac
tories reporting data (and in one
other). These eleven factories produce
between them about forty.fve per cent
of the whole crop of the Islands, but in
a number Of these capitalization is
g., Ia, /
which are remelted or worked In a seed
grain. Actually, l estimate that about
10000 tons of sugar or about 10 per
cent of the crop, is produced simulta-
neously with the absolute suppression
Of low sugars.
'Hersey dried sugars are produced
in seven factories, the total amount
$4,000 tons.
Polarization Of sugars has in
creased from7g7.13 to 97.42. (
"The quantity Of mOlasses produced 7
Is 1884 per cent on sugar shipped; and :
ia per cent on cane. These figures :
very closely to 80 gallons a
Of molasses per ton of sugar. As in
previous years there are number of /
mills which report an abn0rmally low !
amount of molasses the non.sugar in !
which does not approach in quantity /
Inc non.sugar originally present in the /
Juice. " /
In the lengthy tabllated synopsis OF \
viii data M Deer gave the follow y
ng figures regarding the percentage /
n suerose and fibre derived by each \
Mill. q
suerose Fiber /
"a q
sWn Plantation ........LdIl lg.Ol II