Hawaii — page 69: what you’re looking at

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a Ko -- INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. two instances two or three small plantations consolidated into one. This will account in part for the above de- crease in the number of plantations, but it is due mainly to plantations that have been abandoned. “ The first exportation of sugar and molasses that we have any account of was in 1837, when the sugar ex- ported was 4,286 pounds and 2,700 gallons of molasses. We now export 300,000,000 pounds of sugar and 50,000 gallons of molasses. This is undoubtedly the maximum amount that will be produced on the islands.” He also goes on to state that “the diffusion process was first introduced into the country seven or eight years ago. This is a process of extracting the juice by means of a battery of cells, consisting of from twelve to fourteen large iron containers. The cane is first sliced up fine with slicing machines, and then conveyed on carriers to the battery. Each cell is filled alternately, and the su- crose is extracted by means of water heated to 150 de- grees and 200 degrees Fahrenheit, which is circulated through the battery. The first diffusion plant was erected at Kealia, Kauai, a plantation owned by Colonel L. S. Spalding. Colonel Spalding deserves the credit of having introduced and made a success of this method of extracting juice. Since then five diffusion works have. been erected, making six in all; of these four are now running, and at least three doing satisfactory work. The diffusion plants, when properly constructed and success- fully worked, have obtained better results than the best mill work in the country, with the exception perhaps of a large nine roller mill lately erected on the Ewa Planta- eres Sere eee, comicbooks com