The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-06-21
Chile i One Hope
Of Plahttts ,.'
To Get Fertilizer
If Substitute Were Rpallablb
There Are No Ships Aasilabls
To Bring II Here In 0dahtlties
That Are Required

In order to keep up maximum speed
in production Of sugar, an essential for
the country and the world in times OF
war as well as times Of peace, the plan
tatiops of these Islands require, q min.
imum of 5000 tons monthly. The only
suitable fertilizer that can readily, be
made available is Chilean nitrates
These are two of the outstanding facts
that were placed before Secretary
Lane and the Hawaiian Planters As
ISOLATION experiment. station on We'd.
nesday by trustees OF the planters a..
ISOLATION. II Us not within. the PROV
inee Of the secretary's department, to
afford the planters any relief from the
shortage of FERTILIZER supply but he is
the representative Of the adfninistrR.
ton, the prod6ction Of the soil IL close.
ly related TO the land questions which
Secretary Lane 81 here To- Investigate
and it IA believed TINT he can be-. and
gladly win be, a Spokesman for, them
at Washington when the opportunity
Two Bsst Khpxi "a,
It has been found that Chilean nj.
trates a1il splphpric pniDouia are the
two fertilisets that. bring best results
in these Islands, Both Of them are
quick Of aetiop and easily applied! of.
ten If not usually atlplied through the
irrigation water, Thus they can be
put on, at the time when they are need.
ed to speed pp the growth OF the cane
and to- bring about a growth at lust
the time, wien III il required. No 9th
or fertilikers have been found TINT
will perform this service as do these
two &a..s5 s..E.,
sulphuIte ammonia has been found
to work better than nitfates In some
sections, more ESPECIALLY il the Ifilo
district, than, does nitrate. & sufficient
supply of either would answer and the
Secretary was shown that the supply
of the two combined Is less than the
requirements on q single mouth and the
season is att,hana when K n REQUIRED,
Cannot Get Substitutes
Were it possible to secure a, substi.
tute, even Il Il were Isss satisfactorv.
the planters would Az % ana mate
the best Of |. but 1t was. pointed out
to Secretary lane that ire shorfaes 81
ships between tbs mainland and here
of another fertilizer to replace the nj.
'ihleS' ne buipuuTlC .huulOnlu II Cd
tanned chiefly from the iron and steel
manufacturers Of the mainland as n
byproduct of their outputs and, as
the government is all but running these
factories and neeis SULPHUR as, we'll as
inter for munitiop pIlrPos~. there is
n" adequate supply oltP nnlJe and no
N'"s to bring it here II Il wee.
cite Ore Sour
Thus it CONES aovS tbat nitrates
ON Chile Arect IS tb" hore of the
planters. In this yconnertton there is
IN interesting story That, has recently
cen heard. 1t is said that a certain
fertilizer company sought licenses for
shipments from Chile here and was in.
formed that there would, be no obiec-
tion to the granting Of the license or
permit but that no ships were avail
able. If there were ships the com
pany GpplI secure the, shipments, So,
the story goes, the company went out
and finally, SECURED two cargo, Carriers
and ,applied, for permits for shipment
on them. The permits were not grant
ed for the government took the vessels
to carry nitrates for its own use.
As has been outlined before in The
Advertiser, the government needs inter
and sulphur for intuition manufac.
ture and eau obtain the one from nj
crates and the other from sulphuric
ammonia. Hawuii needs them to grow
sugar. The government seems to be
regarding the need for munitions as
greater thar the need for sugar even
at the sacrifice of third or more of a
crop OF Hawaiian sugar.