Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-24
One Area OF 1850 Acres In
tended for 1916 Crop VIII
Give Nothing This Year

/ age To the cane on the Hawaiian Agri.
cultural companys properties. accord.
ing 10 the annual report OF w G, Ogg,
plantation manager which was sub
1 n.itted TO the stuC kholders al their AN
/ Ina. ,nieetfne today.
I Operating expenses for the year
/ were x69t,2i and net profits were
/ 1888, 9ss Out Ut the latter dividends
OF 100000 were paid during the year.
/ or so per cent Al the end ul 1915
! properties stood on the books al
! Al,4i6.Sl0. ant appreciation uurlng the
last year was Figured at S4a. tss.
Excerpts from Manager ogg's report
! follow. ~. -" ..-.* i.
Crop 1915. .,.... -.%.:.Z
AS the summer months of both 1914
and 1913 proved very favorable for the
growth oil cane in this district, the
fields just harvested had the very best
possible opportunity, aud turned out
FULLY up ia our expectations Of year
ago. As will be- recalled, this is the
crop which suffered so badly from the
| severe kona wind storm Of Christmas
1914. and the damage done TO the cane
then Is responsible for the TACT that IL
has taken nearly half a ton more cane
per ton OF sugar dm;ng the campaign
| just closed than for almost any other
season on record.
Much OF the cane blown down then
did not die entirely but was SO badly
injured that the tops sloughed OFF. ana.
from many tests taken, the juice from
these stalks proved TO be responsible
for holding down the average purity
throughout the season. The total out,
put for the year was ls.03S tons OF
sugar. an average yield OF t.s2 tons
sugar per acre. :@~
Crop 1915. ..-~
about 1850 acres of the area origin.
ally intended for this crop have been
so severely injured by lealhopper that
II cannot be figured on for this sea.
son. or this area, 543 acres looks al
| present writing as though. by giving
| II thorough stripping aud an appll,
| cation OF saltpetre, II might make
! about half crop ii left over until
1917, the other 800 acres have been
either plowed up and painted again, OF
will have TO be so this spring. Had II
not been for the fact that 53s.40 acres
OF the 1878 area have been carried
over, this would have reduced the area
for 1916 very seriously,
However, after deducting the leaf
hopper injured areas and adding the
carried over fields, We find that We
still have total OF $4,000 acres 10 be
harvested for this season. Several OF
the fields included in this have sui,
fered TO some extent by leathopper at
tacks, and will not Yield fult crop
by any means. However, much OF the
Caiedonia cane on the lower levels
has had q very favorable season, and
will In some measure make up for
this deficit, 80 that, taking into con.
sideration the damage caused by leaf.
hopper injured areas and adding the
we believe that an average OF "a tons
per acre from the above area is fair.
estimate. giving total OF 1882 tons
of sugar. '~s.=,
Crop 1917. ~
About 500 acres Of the area in
tended for this crop have been some
what affected BY leafhopper From
present appearances nole OF this will
have TO be abandoned entirely, but il
is rather early in the day TO say just
what the hopper may do to IL during
the coming spring and summer, We
have In all 1862 .33 acres for this crop,
and over 250e acres are Caledonia
cane, which we feel very sure the hop
per will not damage much This Gale.
donia cane is on some of our best
fields. 50 that we have every reason
TO expect q good average crop, pro-
yided fair weather prevails.
Mil and Boiling Rouse.
No new equipment has been in.
stalled. and very little other than the
necessary repairs undertaken In this
department during the year. We have
just had il called To our attention by
the technical department OF c, Brewer
& Co, Ltd, that our boiling house
work for 1915 has fallen ! y per cenI
below our average for 1914 This docs
lot make good reading, and the only
excuse We have 10 offer is the low
quality of juice which prevailed
throughout the most OF the season, as
previously alluded to in. this report,
and the fact that the quantity of Juice
coming into the house has had to be.
calculated, during large part of the
season, on account OF our juice scale
being out of commission
Laborers' Quarters. + !: .~... ~.
During the year under review we
have erected 81 new cottages OF the
one family type. in different sections
OF the plantation. Part OF these were
10 replace some Of the large old style
BUILDINGS and others to make room for
more married couples. We find that
ii will be necessary to continue this
work from time TO time.
Fumes. ~ . ..-
During the past three months our
entire aume system, both on the noun.
tain and through the cane fields. has
suffered very severely from the e&
ceptionally heavy rain storms which
have passed over this district. In the
November, 1915, storm We estimated
that nearly $4o00 damage had been