The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-30
BANNER COFFEE
CROP ON HAWAII
.ouisson Plantation Near Pau
Ito win Yield Five Thousand
r. Bags Of Beans


Anyone who can spare the time
should take run out to see Ace
LouissohIs coffee plantation near Pa.
auilo," said James Barron, the well
known Hilo man, to the Hilo Herald
after he had returned from visit to
Louisson.
why continued Barron, "Louis,
son will harvest Eve thousand bags OF
coffee beans this season. He has four
hundred acres Of land under coffee
and the crop is bumper one. The
trees are simply laden with the Der
rles and the branches are bowed with
the tremendous crop. -...-...
Trees that were planted eighteen
years ago are as bright and G, ian
and as full of berries as the youngest
ot that are bearing. Mr.. Louisson has,
evidently, by experience and by read.
ng, found out the secret of successful
,oifee cultivation and he is being re,
warded for his industry and belief in
The future of coffee. Many other peo-
pie threw up coffee growing a long
time ago, but Louisson stuck to it.
There is only one thing needed now,
and that is a tariff on foreign grown
coffee so that the domestic crop can
nave q show against the alien stuff.
"Shade is a great thing in coffee
cultivation and Mr.. Louisson is an
ardent advocate Of that feature in cul.
lvation methods. lie, when clearing
he land, years ago, left ali the ohia
trees standing so that they would
shade the coffee trees. In fact, in
laees where there we're not many Jhia
trees he planted hundreds so rs to get
ne necessary shade. ~
"Louisson has one thousand acres
in fee simple and if he could make
sure that duty would be put on for
ign grown coffee he would 90 ahead
with the further development of his
estate. s. Ft 49,.
1.-THE coffee plantation Is indeed
thing of beauty nowadays and the
sight is n lovely one, with all the
trees in bearing. Later on, when the
berries ripen, the sight viii be still
more beautiful. si,fF
1.-The Grevillen Robusta variety of
coffee has proved to be the best for
the locality Louisson's plantation is
in. and trees of that kind are doing
wonderfully well.
"As they have to depend entirely
upon rainfall at Louisson 8 estate i'm
mense tanks have been constructed TO
hold water and about a dozen are to
be seen on the place. More tanks are
being installed and will be ready soon.
1.-THE milling and drying apparatus
is of the latest kind and the berries
are pulped and dried in record time.
The green berries are nearly all ship
,ed to Terry = mill in Hilo where they
are roasted and bagged for market.
"The coffee industry is an ideal one
for family cooperative work and its
development through a favorable tariff
would provide plenty of work for men,
women aud children. The industry
could never conflict with the sugar in.
dustry, rs coffee does best on the land
that is too high up for cane eultiva-
ton. 'r' eNsfTER, 49,
"Mr. Louisson always has worked
hard for duty on foreign grown eof-
Zee and he declares that If such a duty
were arranged many people could,
without much capital, embark upon
coffee growing to great advantage to
themselves and families. r.
Mr. Barron declared himself to
have been delighted with his expert.
ence among the coffee trees and he
brought a couple of branches from
one of the trees to Hilo Just to show
what a tremendous crop Of coffee Der,
ties is being raised at Louisson s
plantation. .,.-