Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-10
BRITAIN THROUGH INDIA MAY Be ABLE
TODOMINATE WORLDIN SUGAR INDUSTRY
Writer Adds 100000 Tons 10 other Resources Of LOCO
Tons in Empire and Possessions and Points Out Vast Pos
SbIties That Await Intelligent Effor-0her Nations May
Take Warning #..

| in attributing Hawaii's unique posi-
/ ton" in the production of wealth per
/ acre of sugar TO the most highly de-
yeloped, organized and long-continued
/ application OF science and business eff
| ficiency TO be found in any large agri-
! cultural industry" and statement by
| Professor Vaughan MacCaughey, pro-
/ fessor Of botany, Hawaii. is quoted
! showing that Hawaii is the world
! leader in sugar production per unit of
total population, as also in point OF
extraction from The cane juice. Its per
capita production is put down as $500
lbs, against 230o lbs. in Cuba and 81
lbs. only in Java, while the average
percentage of sugar extracted from
the juice in Hawaii is well over 50
per cent as compared with 81 to 80
per cent for Cuba and 80 per cent for
Java. In several places the liberality
of the Hawaiian planter with fertilf
ger is presented in figures, and the
following sentence would indicate that
some one who has been here was not
far from the elbow of the author as
he wrote: ANY one who wishes to
claim that 1t does not pay to heavily |
manure and thoroughly cultivate sugar |
cane need only trot across Hawaii, |
paying special attention to the Eva
plantation, and they will never make
such an assertion again." HAY
Native Home Of Cane
Mr.. Smiths pamphlet, however, is
not the first notice the sugar world |
has received concerning the vast po-
tentiality of India in the industry. The
work itself quotes the Louisiana
Planter of August last in the reminder,
After Cuba comes India" the arti-
Gle referring to that country. as be,
ing thought the native home OF the
sugar cane" and going on to register
the belief that not many years hence
there will be q speedy interest excit-
ed in the production of cane sugar in
India" also intimating that only or
ganization and carefully laid plans are
needed to make ntts sugar fields pro-
duce not only an adequate supply of
the commodity for the home con-
sumption Of all OF British India but
become the source of supply and theI
main sugar dependence of the Brit.
ish nation"
Others Should Prepare
Such preparation for midas ascend
ancy In the sugar world, together with
the adjustment OF the labor problem
involved, will not be effected in a day
or year, yet the ultimate eventually
must be regarded as more than a prob
ability. Therefore all other sugar pro-
ducing countries will be wise to make
their reckonings for the future accord
ingly. There is hint in the pamphlet
here reviewed, that the white cane
producer outside In0ia does not want
that country to realize its full power
as a sugar producer, for the day 1t
does so and starts to develop the in
dustry there viii be little or no room
left for the white producers else
where" Such a sentiment anywhere
will "cut no ice against the decree
of destiny that no doubt waits upon
the natural promise of any country.
India, like every other land on the
face of the globe, viii inevitably come
into her own. It may be regarded as /
one OF the ironies Of fate that the pro- +
gressiye example of Hawaii should S
help to raise formidable competition t
with herself, yet sugar men of Hawaii a
are already branching out in aiding {
rivalry with their home industry in the c
fields and factories Of the Philippines, f
Korea and Java. Still, the worlds t
sugar tooth is all the time growing p
more keen and yoracieus, and, as in o
the past, Hawaii will meet any situa- T
ton ready and unafraid. b
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