Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-24
Shareholders Get Detailed An
nuaI Reports on Condition OF
Plantation and Company

out OF net profits in 1915 of Sl,l5S,-
S51 paid out $5400 900 in dividends, and
i'll addition made provision for cancel
ing more than $4,000 worth OF the
bonds. the last outstanding blocks of
today TO the shareholders. who have
their annual meeting at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning. ..',
Excerpts follow from the annual re-
port OF William w GOodale, manager
OF the company, which show the con-
dit!On OF the company, the mill, grow
ing crops and plantation in general:
Crop Of 1915. H.. -
I'VE began grinding the crop of 1915
on December :, 1914, and finished
grinding on September 16, 1915. T..
The total yield of sugar was 81,
1850 tons from all the fields har-
vested. including 1899 tons manufaC-
tured by this company from cane cul-
tivated by independent planters on
their own lands.
The yield of the company's fields
exceeded my estimate by 1858 tons.
The crop was harvested from total
area of 5304.12 acres .....~..
The average yield of sugar per acre
for this crop was materially affected
by 65416 acres of cane from fields
above the WahiaWa and pump
bitches, that yielded only 4.08 tons of
sugar per acre. These fields suffered
from droHH1k during the latter half
OF the vel : 1913, just at the time when
we we're Starting the young plant and
ratoons, and because of their situa-
ton, depended for irrigation upon
water from the upper bitches. -. T.. ..
comparisons OF the yield of cane
per acre for the three crops, 1913, 1914
crops, show plainly the effect of
drought.
Crop Of 1916.
I'VE began grinding the crop of 1916
on December 20. 1915, and on January
81 had made 3545 tons of sugar, in
Guiding 275 tons in tanks and crystal
iZers. III.
The average sucrose in cane was
1914 20 January 81, which was better
than expected, considering the heavy
rainfall in December and January.
"On January 81 we had taken off
5SS,02 acres that had yielded 50.59
tons of cane and 6.03 tons of sugar
per acre. IL .......
THE fields that had been completed
on January 81, 442.50 acres, had eX-
ceeded my estimate by 1852 tons of
sugar or .375 tons of sugar per acre, Il
The Denerara 1T and 1135 and
the H-109. fields have grown remark
ably well and very heavy yields of
cane per acre are expected. The quail
ity of the juices from cane of the new
er varieties and their value as substi-
tues for Lahaina are still uncertain.
Where the water supply is abundant
during the entire period Of the growth
of crop, Lahaina cane with its high
quality juice seems to have no super
ior, but it will not stand irregular and
insufficient irrigation as well as some
other varieties.
have estimated the crop of 1916
at 81 1924 tons.
Crop Of 1917. a..
There will be 51S5.64 acres for the
crop of 1917, including $50 acres be-
longing to independent planters.
THE area to be harvested for the
crop Of 1917 is less than we expected.
The dry weather and low water in the
upper bitches that prevailed during
1913, 1914 and 1915, so seriously affect
ed the cane on 255 acres of Upper
Helemano and Kemoo that the roots
were weak and unthrifty. It would
have been a waste of water, labor and
fertilizer to continue to cultivate these
fields, and they were abandoned. The
area of long ratoons for. this crop is
255 acres less than it should have
been. We have plowed the land and
shall plant it this year for the crop
of 1918. We lose the use of the land
for one year, but shall probably get
twice as much sugar from the plant
crop of ratoons. .....-,.
Crop of 1918. 49,. .>-...<.s
I'VE shall plant about 1900 acres
this year for the crop of 1918, and the
total area to be harvested will be
about $500 acres. ..... ~: ~.
I'VE have plowed about $50 acres,
the wet weather during the
last two months has been very unfay-
orable for such work. ..
and bitches. .-....:..
The total amount of water deliv-
cred by all the bitches and reservoirs
in 1915 was 14,462, 771.S55 gallons, |
which is only 80 per cent of the water
obtained from the same sources in |
1914 The heavy rains Of this winter, |
the first we have had since 1904, have |
soaked the watershed of |
all the streams, and the run-off will |
no doubt be much greater during 1916. |
mo new bitches have been dug this |
year, but we have built one dam on
Helemano, across a ravine where |
railroad fill or t-estle was necessary, |
the dam thus serving two purposes.
Permanent improvements.
1--WE expended ;$100,S6S.7S for per-
nanent improvements.
We have expended S14,350.75 in
lining bitches with concrete, and dur
ing the year 1918 lined about nine |
miles of main and level bitches.
Mill. ..=..'.- ~.
improved methods in use at the |
mill last year resulted in a gain of |
about two per cent in recovery of the /
sugar in the cane, Dut at 81 cents per
-on greater cost of manufacture owing