The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-01-16
IN
. TWO K0NAS
BRIGHT
Prospect for BanAsr Coffee Crop
in 1914 Sugar Harvest Under
Full way with Fields in Good
Condition ona Tobacco Com
pany 70 Begin Planting Seed
Beds = Good Demand for Out
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The outlook is that the season Of
1914 win be a prosperous one in the
TIVE. KonAs, There was very heavy
gensfal rain January extending from
the sea to above the forest The
ranches are all in good shape. Feed
is good and cattle are fat.
There viii be a very heavy crop Of
coffee. The trees are beginning TO flush
on the lower lands. BY the last Of this
week and the first Of next the whole
district will be white with its full
nush Of coffee flower. The trees always
bloom or flush, from ten to twenty
days after the FIRST general winter or
early spring rains. The 1914 crop viii
ripen full month earlier than in 1918.
June, July and August are the rainy
months Of the Kona growing season,
Hence, IL the 1914 summer is normal
one the quality of the crop win be exs
ceptionally good, the beans large and
we'll filed. a
| A feature of development in the
\ Kona coffee industry is that scores Of
the psmall farmers" Japanese, Ha.
waiians, Portuguese and Koreans, are
milling their own cherry with gasoline
engines OF from three to twenty horse.
d power, instead Of selling the cherry to
the big millers. BY selling as parch-
itient, or as clean coffee ungraded, there
Is a saving in haulage, in the number
Of bags required, and in time and la
Dor. The planters find that there Is a
margin OF from nine TO thirteen dol
lars per ton on selling as parchment
over selling as cherry and another mar
gin Of from Ave to eight dollars per
ton selling cleaned but ungraded cot
fee instead Of parchment, or, that they
get from three quarters to one-q quarter
dents per pound more for their crops
by milling on their own account, in
stead Of selling the. cherry, The large
= concerns who have hitherto eohtrolie,
the entire milling business - cherry
!, parchment and elean.coifeeLwill still
have the handling. and grading Of tn
latter. Grading cannot be done by III
Pine Sugar Crop.
The physical condition of the KonI
4 Sugar Plantation Is better than il Ia
4 been for years The cane IA very fns
5 Grinding began last week. Manager i
; +. Conant stated yesterday that In
a suerose is higher than usual, purit.
! somewhat low, and that the mill OK
traction is running 80 to "a per cent
The fields are in splendid condition
: the cane growing rapidly and free O
IT disease or insect pests. The plantatioi
l. will produce 5000 tons for 1914, L.abo
II is abundant all through the Konas
with little employment offering.
Tobacco Outlook.
. The Kona Tobacco Company rs n
ported getting ready 20 start see
! beds about the fifteenth, The tobaee
plhnting season is from May to Jul.
The only work now being carried o
At Keokea is the grading, about twer
ty women being employed The 191
crop was about 10000 pounds, thirt,
five 10 forty per cent Of which will b
wrappers. The 1913 crop shows goo
burn. The wrapper is being paeke
Sumatra style, the filler in carrots.
The Honaunan cigar factory hs
about fifty thousand cigars on hand.
Is understood that steady market Z,
cigars Is being worked up in califo
MIA, whore this mild and fragrant Kor
. product Is much npDreeiated