The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-20
AUTHORIZATION
REPORTSFORYEAR
Weather Conditions Give Some
!; Trouble But Outlook
>.so Is Bright

Reports for the past year ON Pa;a
/ plantation Haiku Sugar Company and
Maui Agricultural Company we're pre-.
sented to shareholders yesterday at the
annual meetings Of the affiliated com.
panies.
/ Ofieers elected 20 serve for botb
Haiku and Paia for the ensuing wear
We're; H. A. Baldwin, president: j. p.
Cooke, first vice president: +. q. Atb
erton, second vice.president, John Wa.
terhOuse, treasurer; Johh tiuild. secre.
tary.
Maui Agricultural reports net nrotlts
for the year of 81, 7O7, S76.5i. OF which
1904, l70.06 whs carried TO mott ana
loss account and the balance divided
among the member plantations Of the
partnership. The balance carried for.
ward for the year, including the bal,
anee as Of January I, 1915, totals
| 81. 26S. 4g7 20.
II. A, Baldwin,manager for Maui Ac.
ricultural, reports ms follows ON the
crops: 45# 4. +.
| The yield From the 1915 CROP wa,
somewhat better than we had estimated
At the beginning of the harvesting sea.
son, although $500 tons less than the
1915 crop. The estimate as given in
last years report was $4,000 tons. but
the results were 34,0ll tons. ak.
Early Rains Were Heavy H.@
Because Of the tremendous rains
early in the year there was considerable
growth during the spring, but the juices
were poorer than usual. The average
purity of the first mill juice was 90. 50,
and for 1915 and IDA It was .S7 and
1928 respectively! IL took 500 tons
Of cane to make one ton Of sugar last
season, whereas during the previous
year il took only 6.sS tons of cane to
make a ton of sugar. .a
The average yield in sugar per acre
for 1916 was 9.lS tons for plant and
6.57 tons for ratoons, averaging 1850 for
both plant and ratoons. For 1915 the
average for both plant and ratoons was
9.63. We harvested for the 1916 crop
TIA acres Of plant and 1882 acres Of
ratoons--a total Of 4496 acres.
On account of the poorer yield and
much larger payments for taxes and
bonns to laborers, the cost of produc-
ton was high, but we cannot complain,
as we received for the crop net price
Of Eve GENTS less than 500 per ton.
Crop Of 1917 Disappoints
We win harvest this year 1854 acres
plant cane and 2673 acres ratoons, q
total of 4237 acres and have estimated
that the crop will be 36,500 tons.
We commenced cutting cane Decem-
Der 5. To date we have taken off 975
a n ALI IN L L -
appointing The cane, on account of
the cold spring, lacks in length and the
prospects for realizing our estimate are
not good unless cane that has not tas-
selled makes considerable growth. The
Demerara l35 planted at Hamakua-
poke win yield Heavy in cane.
We planted for this crop 1900 acres
and ore cultivating 3435 acres of rat.
oous; a total Of 5035 acres. We did not
finish planting until October III; the
weather since has been too cold and the
last planted fields are backward. Most
Of the late plant is D-ll35, Hoo and
Bamboo, however, and should pick up
quickly when we have warm weather.
The young ratoons look well. ...
We plan to plant in the neighborhood
Of 1000 acres and to ration about 5000
acres to be taken" off in 1919. Just
what we are able to do will, of course,
depend on coming weather and labor
conditions.
Factory Results Are Good e.,
Results in the factory were excellent.
The extraction for the season was 1881
per cent, which is the best average we
have made. Although our crop was con.
siderably less than that of 1915 and it
took more cane per ton of sugar, the
cost of manufacturing per ton of sugar
was less. s'-' eesrrs' - 'r'r.'."
During the year about POO, 900 nur.
sery plants were set out. A good deal
of replanting had to be done, as the
January storms killed great many Of
last years paintings.
Considerable has been spent clearing
pastures of lantana and another variety
Of wild verbina, planting out and SOW.
ing foreign grasses, and the ranch ae-
counts show loss. A gain was made
in the pine account and the prospects
for the coming year are good.
The main improvements made during
the year were in the factory and in ad,
ditions TO our camps. In the factory
we changed over one of our coil vacuum
pans TO calandria pan; put in four
more erystallizers; four large mud
presses; three large steel molasses tanks
to replace leaky cisterns; enlarged our
sugar warehouse to hold 5000 tons more,
Dad other minor items. ..... ~ ~,
A new general warehouse has been
built and q start made on new ma!
chine shop on the site of the old ware.
house, The substitution of sixty,pound
rail for old thirty pound rail on our
main lines shows good results, and the
purchase of Best tractor is valuable
for green soiiinG. '.'
The erection of the cement making
plant, authorized some little time ago,
is E,I well under way and should be in
operation by May this year, This will
| result in q big saving in the cost Of ce.
mcnt for bitches and reservoirs and for
all useS q.