Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-15
COFFEE CROP
FOR YEAR TOTALS
100000 LBS.
Decrease in Quantity Is Partly
Made Up by Higher
Prices Received

Hawaiis coffee crop year closed ON
June -, and the quantity OF the old
crop shipped since that date has been
inconsequentiaE Probably the new
crop will begin coming In By the next
steamer from Kona
For the year ended June Is, 1912,
the exports of coffee amounted to 90.
s31 UNDERGROUND bags. or about two
million and ninety.three thousand
Bounds, the invoice value of which
was 1887, 726.
The previous seasons crop, which
was little later, some having been
shipped in July. was 37,12S bags at
an invoice value of $476,497. Thus
the coffee year just passed shows a
deficiency of over 10000 bags I'm
quantity and about $4,000 in in.
voice value. The decrease in value
is greater than il would have been
bad the price been the same last
wear as IL was the year before.
Average invoice Value.
For the season ended June. 1911.
the average invoice value was 1888
cents a pound, while that for the sea
son last past it was fraction above
10 cents, or an advance of nearly %
Per cent.
This year we are going to have a
bumper crop" said j. w. MeChesney.
on giving out the foregoing statistics
Saturday, and ii is going to be
early. | think 1t will be larger than
that of season before last, and prob
ably the largest we have ever had. :"
Asked what was the reason for the
falling off last year, Mr.. McChcsney
said:
1T has always run heavy and light,
tut why it should be so light have
heard several reasons given and am
not able to say just what the cause
was. High winds that blow the bios
SONS off may partly account for It.
This year the price will probably
rule about the same as last year. al
though just now they are a trifie
lower than at the beginning of last
season.
Planting is increasing right along,
from what / can hear. / have no
doubt we will have high prices for
years to come. People are safe in
planting coffee for high prices. The
consumption has been gradually over
taking the production for some years.
There is no question they are re.
stricting production in Brazil. They
had to do it to finance that valoriza-
ton scheme
Little Land Available.
No. there is not much land yet
available for coffee growing in Ha-
waii-at least not in large tracts.
There is some suitable land, of course.
but no very large areas in single
tracts. Kona is the best coffee re-
gion on account simply of the alb.
sence of the trade wind there.
1T is hard to say whether the land
on the higher levels would be favor
able to coffee, but it is certain that
when you go to the lower levels there
is but little ground not covered with
lava.
Possibly the export may increase
to million dollars with the mainte-
nance of good prices"
There are no definite figures extant
regarding the home consumption. A
couple of years ago it was estimated
at 10000 bags, and from that basis.
would probably be $4,000 bags now.
The recent Army contract to II.
Hackfeld & Co., of 10000 pounds. of
which part goes to the Philippines.
will be that much off the exports by
custom house this year, although up
till lately Hackfeld's supplied a good
deal of coffee to the Army on monthly
bids.