The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-05
lone YEARS
WORK OF SUGAR
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is proper to state that through the
efforts of your committee, necessary
amendments to the inspection laws
were secured at the last session of the
legislature and a rigid enforcement of
10th foreign and inter-island inspec
ton of plants, sugar cane, etc, is now
being maintained. If by any possibil
ity this terrible disease, or anything
else of a like nature, obtains foot
hold on this island, the importance of
preventing the spread thereof to the
other islands cannot be over-estimat-
ed. Now that an unlimited number of
varieties can be obtained from seed
lings, there is no longer any necessity
for the importation of canes from any
country, and no mrther attempts
should be made in that direction, no
matter what the apparent induce
ments may be.
New Sub-Staton.
| At the last annual meeting this com
mittee submitted a recommendation
for the establishment of A large new
sub-station on this island. We are
pleased to report that after much ne
gotiation field of 145 acres has been
/ secured from Oahu Sugar Company,
admirably adapted and located for eX-
perimental purpos-s. The preliminary
work has already begun and the eX-
| perimental area will be planted in 1912
and 1914.
While the net cost OF conducting
| this large sub-station will be consid-
cradle, the benefits which will accrue
/ from experiments made on a planta-
/ ton scale, as well as the large
amount of superior seedlings which
can be propagated for distribution,
will be very great. Years of time will
be saved to the plantations in getting
choice new varieties under cultivation
Hawaiian Seedlings.
During the past season the station
was able to make the first tests on
measured areas of the value of a num-
Der of seedlings as compared with
standard canes As will be seen from
the directors report, the results are
most gratifying and encouraging; vel
low Caledonia being surpassed by
eleven Hawaiian seedlings and La
haina by twenty-five. The results from
the highest of these seedlings show
nearly 60 per cent increase of yield
over Lahaina grown under exactly the
same conditions. II now remains sim
ply to further select these seedlings
and prove the adaptability of the same
to different locations in the islands,
and there is every reason to expect
that the same beneficial results will
be secured in the Improvement of
plished by long, patient and persistent
effort elsewhere with other agricul-
tural products. When we consider
that the increased yield by reason of
better cane is nearly all profit to the
producer, the importance of improving
the standard varieties is very appar-
ent., The new sub-station above re-
ferred to will afford the needed facili-
ties for propagating and growing the
new varieties on the proper scale.
Battelle Process.
Reference should be made to the
large amount of work performed by
the station staff during the past year
in the investigation of the merits of
the so-called "Battelle Process for
the recovery of sugar from waste mo-
lasses. These researches were con
Quoted at the request of the board of
trustees, with the result that the
claims of the inventor were substan-
tiated from scientific or laboratory
standpoint, and that it is well worthy
of being given a thorough test on a
commercial scale. Plans are now be-
ing made for making such test during
the coming season.
Improved Fertilization.
We would invite your special atten-
ton to that section of the directors
report dealing with this subject. The
plantation crops just harvested are the
first to receive the benefit Of the new
formula, and we fully agree with Di-
rector Eckart that the increased yields
are due in large measure to the APP
plication of the new fertilizer. If six
teen carefully conducted tests in diff
ferent localities and under widely diff
ferent conditions, showing a net gain
of q per cent over the old methods,
cannot be taken as conclusive, then
experimental work is useless and the
time-honored inductive theory OF arriv-
ing at facts is a fallacy 1t is now