Honolulu star-bulletin., 1916-02-16
Crop of 1916 Will Be Larger
Than Yield Last Year: In.
creased Area Cultivated

Though in 1914 the Oahu Sugar
Company, Ltd. paid only $4,000 in
dividends Il 10 per cent?. and trans
feTred $5SS,3l9 to the profit balance
from a crop OF 22,sl5 tons, so greatly
did the company benefit from war
prices on sugar in 1918 that 9 per cent
dividends were Ea.d totallng $3.50, 100,
and $4,000 was put into tie profit
balapce fand. The latter showing was
made Cn a crop much smaller than
that Of 1914, the 1915 yield being
29, ,3GT tons.
p These figures were given TO the
shareholders of the company at the
annual meeting. held this morning,
when accounts and the annual report
of E. K. Bull, manager, were consid-
cred. AS pointed ont in yesterdays
Star-BuEetin, the company has more
than $l,000,0G0 cash on hand.
Parts of Mr.. Bulls report on 1915
operations, with forecasts made by
him for future yields, are as follows:
Too Lry Part Of Year.
Fer a period of 10 months up to
the beginning OF November last, eX-
ceptionally dry weather prevailed. af-
fecting to a great extent the advance
ment of our growing crops; only 1892
inches of rain fell during the time
mentioned, necessitating continual
run of our pumps, to their full ca
pacity. This long continued drought
was finally broken in> November, and
during this month. as we'll as that of
December, we had an abundance of
rain, amounting to 14.66 inches, max
ing total of 25.GS inches for the year
Crop 1915. ...
I'VE commenced harvesting this
crop on December 5th, 1914, and fin
ished on September 2, 1915; the area
harvested was made up as follows;
... Acres
Plant cane, irrigated ..... 1,0S3S6
Long ratoon cane, irrigated. =. 2,93407
Long ratoon cane, unirrigated. l12.23
Short ratoon cane, irrigated. .. 1851
Total 4,346.47
The, estimate for the above was
2S.500 tons sugar; the yield was 90
367.095 tons sugar, in addition to
which there was manufactured 242.7S0
tons sugar from cane purchased from
outside planters, making total out
put of 29,609.S75 tons Tor 29,96S.315
tons SO degrees sugar.. an excess over
estimate of 11G9.S75 tons.
"A considerable portion of the cane
milled consisted of new varieties, prin-
cipally yellow Caledonia" and De
marara No. 1885," with juices com
paratively low in sucrose and purity;
a slight increase may therefore be
noted in the amount of cane required
per ton of sugar, the average being
6.96 tons, as against 6.s5 tons for the
previous crop. h7
The average yield per acre amount
ed to 6.S4 tons sugar, his low average
yield Is due to the poor weather con-
ditions, and low quality of juices from
new varieties of cane, already men,
toned, and also, to slight extent, to
the low yield of the unirrigated cane,
which only averaged 3.95 tons sugar
per acre. '--
Crop 1915. % l..
"The area to be harvested this year
to 4438.64 acres. consisting
Of: -"*.'....
>",.=. Acres. |
Plant cane .................., $500 |
Long ratoon cane 3,0S5.65 |
Short ratoon cane ........... 465.37 |
Total 4,f0o.of
AS stated in last years report this
crop had an excellent start, and an
which promised we'll for
heavy yield, but owing to the unfavor-
able weather conditions. during the
greater part of last year, the cane has
suffered, more or less, from shortage
Of water, and the crop will therefore
not come UP to what might have been
expected. An area of 1913 acres of long |
ratoon cane, grown on the upper lands, I
without irrigation, dried uD completely |