Hawaii — page 70: what you’re looking at

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4 te ot ot ee Vee oe 2 > ee & au? 4 | _ i. , , INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. 61 tion, Oahu.. The result of this mill (1895) has not been _ fully ascertained. The loss in mill extraction is from ten to eighteen per cent., whereas diffusion extracts to within five per cent. We have both diffusion and mills on the _ plantation I am interested in, and I give it as my opinion that with more powerful mills, and more rollers in our mills than we have, the result in extraction will be nearly as great as in diffusion, the cost of manufacture less, and in general the result more satisfactory.” The Pacific coast and the United States have always been the principal markets for Hawaiian sugar. Ship- ments have been made to Australia, and New York and Canada has been talked of as an outlet, but California has been the best market so far. 45 The islands have all the latest implements used in agriculture. Where the land permits, the steam plough is used. Most of the plantation fields are irrigated, with the exception of those on the island of Hawaii. As the interiors of the islands are mountainous, the sugar planta- tions are near the seacoast, and some yield an average of Six or seven tons of sugar an acre. Nearly all the labor on the plantations is done by Ha- -waiians, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. - They are all good workers. The Hawaiians are good teamsters, Portuguese do the heavy work, and the Chinese and Japanese factory work. The Japanese are not so easily managed as the Chinese. For those Portuguese and Japanese who cannot defray their own expenses, the planter will advance money for their passage, and they then work on contract for a given time. (alo) , . ) nr ; O ROS A comicbooks a - at, > -