The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-27
WILL MAKE SUGAR
TO meet DEMANDS
0FHOMEMARHETS
,kahuku plantation Company
May Add Greatly To Supply
Needed For Home
DETERMINATION WAITS g..
ON FACTORY EXPERIMENTS
Consumers Of Refined Article Are
Now Paying Three Profits
That Are Unnecessary

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Added supplies Of sugar for the Isl.
arids, sugar that has not been shipped
to the mainland, there refined and
then shipped back and therefore had
the freight cost Of two ocean trips add,
cd to its cost and price, may be ex-
pected from the 1918 crop. At least
one plantation company will undertake
the project and others may. a..
For the past several days reports
ve been heard to the effect that the
kahuku Plantation Company would
make q white sugar next year for the
supply of the Hawaii market. Inquiry
at the agency of the company brought
the information that the company had
been considering the matter very IA
yorably but was not yet ready TO an
nOunce definitely that Il would do so
nor what quantities would be used here
and what quantities would be shipped
away until later. Experiments have
been highly satisfactory in the labora,
tory and are 10 be made in the fac.
tory. If those experiments prove to
be also satisfactory the company ex.
poets to put supply on theDfharket. 5
OUTPUT of Plantation ...., b..
Kahnkn Plantation this year has had
on outturn Of s12S tons Of raw sugar on
nm estimate Of 1900 tons. It IL there
fore. If it be found desirable, in a
position TO furnish large supplies to the
local market and still ship much raw
TO the mainland. What process il will
use for whitening the officials of the
company have not vet disclosed but IL
is understood that it not only whitens
but purifies. ".s- t
l. There have been numerous expert
ments made with whitening processes
by various Hawaiian plantations. These
processes included the Merritt process
in the. nse of which perhaps more ex-
tensiye Experiments have been mad }
than with any others. In some In
stances some highly satisfactory results
were secured but the reason for the
abandonment Of the project that was
being then seriously considered has
never been made public. .-
New Processes Announced ....
2 Recently there have been reported a
number of new whitening processes,
especially from Louisiana where it is
planned to whiten and sell without re.
timing large quantities sof the present
crop and where that phn is already
being carried out. One of these late
processes utilizes char made from
rice hills for whitening instead of us.
| ing bone char.
With price for raw sugar fixed
which the Louisiana planters consider
unsatisfactory, southern plartatiOns are
going in more and more for whitening
processes and thereby getting consid.
erably higher return for their crop than
tb"v otherwise would. fs.., r.t.n..
From the Territory of Hawaii the SUI,
gar is shipped to the mainland for
whitening and refining and the refined
ltrodnct is.then shipped back. The con
sumner pays for this sugar a price which
is made up Of value of the raw sugar
Mt tho factory here, freight rate to the
refinery, refining cost and refiners' pro-
fit and freight rate back The sugar
thus shipped and returned takes up
valuable cargo space going both WAYS
1t tends to- hamper and delay the
bringing Of other necessaries from the
mainland here and IS to that extent re-
spQnsible for congestion in San Fran
cisco, The main point, however, TO
most consumers is that by using a su-
gar washed and whitened at home there
is money saving on every pound used
as compared with refined sugar prices.
The color Of the washed sugar is
said to be greatly improved bv other
processes and IL IL also said that it is
possible TO practically, eliminate the
slight molasses flavor of which some
complain when nsing washed sugar and
which the refined article does not con
tain. -.