The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-11-24
Maui Plantation
Methods Praised
Wailuku Leads In Selected
Seed Program and Work of
Walsh Loader Is Commend
ed BY Planters Committee

In the coming year as much as
$4,000 may be spent in trying out
cane loading devices. The subject
was discussed at some length at the
planters meeting in Honolulu Tues
day. Two machines especially came
in for comment, that invented by Ed
J. Walsh of Puunene and the Paw
ling and Hunischfeger boom type. A
strong effort was made to have a
number of the latter type purchased
and used but it was decided finally
to leave the matter of type to com
mittee.
The committee approved the design
of E. J. Walsh's loader, constructed
for and used by the "A. & b." plan
tations on Maui. This machine eli
inmates the loading plank, which is
probably the cause Of more bad acci-
dents in the harvest field than any
other one station.
The Walsh loader is a steel con-
veyor feet inches wide and 81
feet long, mounted on 1-ton Ford
truck the rear wheels of which have
been replaced by d short caterpillar
tread. The cOnYeyor is pivoted on a
differential pedestal which permits it
to be tilted up and down and swung
all or partly around. The power is
taken directly from the Ford engine.
Work of Walsh Loader
At Puunene the poorest days work
done was tons a man in an S.5
hour day with new Filipinos, and 81
tons a man in rs hours with Japa-
nese, the machine was put right in
l tn he EnlI r,,r -1,
as cane had to be got to the mill
| The loading tracks were spaced 165
. feet apart.
Average cost of elevating cane in
to the cars was SO cents a ton. 1t
was found that open or stake cars
were not filled as well as by hand
labor, otherwise the machine worked
entirely satisfactory.
The committee disapproved the
Fritschi-Hughes loader. 1t did not
do the work and does not appear tc
be perfected. The cane-grapple also
met with their disapproval as being
| too cumbersome.
Would Borrow" a Plantation
Hall said the p. & II. machines
cost about $4,000 each The com
mittee would like toahave the trus
tees buy five machines. The slings
and miscellaneous equipment woulC
cost $4,000 more. If this were done
and they could get one plantation tC
use nothing else during an entire
season, their value would be PROVED
or disproved in a year.
This recommendation was opposed
by H. B. Penhallow, who thought i
I., V,r1 A
600 on the Walsh loader. This elic
tied the information that Mr.. Walsl
does not want any help from tht
II. S. p. a. He is willing they shoult
take his cane loader and try it ou
to their hearts content, but it il
his machine, he is doing the invent
ing, and the planters can go chas,
themselves when it comes to putting
up the coin.
Wailuku the Leader
Chairman Larsen of the cultivation
committee, called attention at tn
Monday meeting to the fact that Wal
lullu Sugar Co. is the first plantation
in Hawaii to put selected seed" ol
the commercial sugar map. Enougl
reselected seed has been accumulate,
to take care of all of the 1913 plant
ing. This plantation is the only one
also, which has made commercial
beginning on single-eye resistant La
haina seed.
The Wailuku practice of relinin
irrigation bitches with concrete slab
awhile the ditch is in full use at n
greater than construction first cos
is an engineering achievement.
Baldwin's automatic flume system
works well is the flow if small an
plenty of time is given, Larsen said
A stream no larger than mans lii
tie finger will run 200 yards and thol
oughly wet the ground, whereas
large stream would run fast and d
little good. a little stream will ru
through and under deep trash Thi
is the necessary element in this sys
TEN. 1t often takes three hours t.
wet one row.