The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-12
I0LAAGVIIS COSTS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Manager Eckart's Annual Report
Announces Phenomenal Sue
cess oiImproyed Methods
@sgas III @r----
Plantation win Go On Paying
Basis Before End Of Nine. 5.
L. teen-Fifteen -'.

q. r. Eckart, manager Of 0laa Sugar
Company, In his report concerning op.
erations for the year ending Decenl-
Der 81, states that the harvesting of
the 1914 crop A'wPS commenced Jnn-t
The total yield was 24,754.56 tons Of
sugar from 5,4l295 acres, or an average
of 4.E7 tons per acre. Both growing
pcr'o's for this crop. were, especially
favorable. .. = "a. S........ .I...t n
80 The average sucrose content of
the zane for the season was 1928 per
cent, and II required s.3s tons Of cane
70 rrndoce one ton Of sugar. The aver
= e. extraetion of suerose was 95.l9 per-
cent as compared with 94ll per ceat
tnr the 1913 campaign. ..,...1 HI
Evnraged Eighty rollars 10. ..H
The sugar from this crop reached
The mainland market under widely vary.
ing price levels, ranging from 2.92
cents per pound, New York quotations,
in the early part Of April, to 6.2I3
zen ~ per pound for one shipment reach.
ing be eastern coast on September IL.
The average New York open market
Quon lion under which the entire crop
was told was 500 cents per pound. ~.
The 1915 crop covers an area OF
r,2@2.S acres, comprising 56g.07 acres
ot ant cane and 5,673.73 acres 3ra-
'"@l The estimated total yield Is
100 tons Of cane or 43.S tons per
a'-' II the quality OF the juice were
r,"1 ing the same sas last season the
~ lated output Of sugar would be
- 70 tons from this amount of cane.
Eetnhate Five Tons
~ far as can be judged at present,
Row iver, we can expect inferior juices
tor lhe 1915 crop, and the sugar out
pm will probably be between 81 800
ahd $4,000 tons. To be conservative
would therefore make the official yes-
Innate for this date as 81 800 tons, or
lfttle more thaa Eve, tons TO. the acre,
M che total quantity Of cane, forty!
five per cent viii be transported to the
min by railroad and fifty.fve per cent
l., tunes. Va. .
II lryesting Of this crop was started
Dee mber q, 1914. .
EXT action Improved
to the end of last month the SUI
"r"H content of the cane has averaged
'I"I per cent; very material and
gepil improvement in this regard is to
he Speeted, however, as the season adj
Vanres into the spring and summer
VIII c later commencement of har.
Nest ng operations would have been
more favorable to the quality of the
earl cut cane, the size of the crop
M" an early start imperative. The
n extraction TO date has averaged
p q per cent as compared with 9479
le ient for the corresponding period Of
'or' year. This Improvement Ia. mill.
oog work is 10 be credited almost en-,
tire to the new principles Of roll
s:SxS is devised by PA @. Maess-
Crop 1916
The total area under this crop is
5,844.45 acres, Of which 1855 acres are
plant cane and 4,S50.57 acres ratoons
ThIle. this cane in general Is not ad-
vanced as far as the 1915 crop was at
corresponding dates, owing to the ex-
cessively wet season through which 1t
has passed. an average spring and
summer during the present year. should
bring 1t up TO very satisfactory yield.
The fatoons are looking particularly
well. ,&GE
Crop 1917
For this crop we propose to plant be,
tween 400 and 100 acres in addition to
the area which will be put into plant
cane by the outside planters, The total
area to be harvested win be in the
neighborhood of 6100 acres, ..
Weather Conditions
These were exceptional during the
year 1914 and represented the two exs
tremes Of drought and excessive rain.
fall. During the early months of the
year insufficient water was available
for keeping the fumes at a proper
working capacity, and for n short time
this means of transportation had to be
dispensed with entirely. Toward the
end of April heavy rains followed the
prolonged dry spell, and these eentin.
ued almost necessarily up to October
Rains Were Excessive II
Al Nine Miles 1919 inches Of rain
fell during the year, the highest pre-
vious record being ls0,S7 inches in 1909,
and the average for the past fourteen
years being 1909 inches, At Noun
tain View the precipitation was 2po.97
inches against the highest previous rec
ord of 242.59 inches in 1907, and an
average for fourteen years Of 2O9.oS
inches, g~ 'ia
These abnormal conditions naturally
exerted an unfaSorable Influence on the
1918 crop during its second growing
season and on the 1916 crop during its
first period Of growth.
1t is very gratifying to be able to re-
port that the plantation as whole is
making steady and rapid progress to-
ward its establishment on a profit-mak'
ing basis under lower sugar levels.
All Costs Decreased -,
The acre costs for bringing cane TO
raturity on plantation, fields for the
1915 crop were 1878 per cent less than