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'HE MAUI NEWS- SATURDAY, 'OCTOBER 26, 1907 a . MAUI PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED. FINB JOB PRINTING BOOK BINDING AND PAPER RULING GENERAL PLANTATION SUBSCRIBE MAUI NEWS' THE PAPER THAT ADVANCES . THE INTERESTS OF NAU POST OFFICE BOX 5 TELEPHONE NO. 310 HIGH STREET, WAILUKU, MAUI COUNTY. s Why don't you try a glass of Primo Beer before retir ing? There's 'nothing in this beer that, can harm you. There's much to do you good. GOO O O O If there is anything you O in stock, remember that a q necessary, we 11 10 1110 rest. - ll 1 - Jl - A Wo carry all the staple fancy. Dry Goods, Gent's Hay and Grain. . We are headquarters for Baseball good.-;. jj o . s -a 8 WAILUKU CASH STORE. I m o . & Gs.OCOGOS' 00S0 CARRIAGE BUILDING When you want your carriage repaired to last 'jring it to Hie rilit tshop. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING HORSE SHOEING. DAN. T. .Alain St. near Vturket, DR. F. A.ST. SUKIi PHYSICIAN AND SURGliON. OFFICE: FIRST NATIONAL BNK BUILDING. U' iv us: 10 A. M.ilo 12 M. 1 P. M. to 3 P. M. 7 P. M. to 8 P. M. WORK A SPECIALTY. FOR THE &Q desire that is not carried word to r.s is nil that is O groceries, as woll as the Furnishings, Hardware, CAREY Walluku, Maui H. MONGEN CONTR'ACTOK and BUILDER Plans tind Estimates Furnished. Small Jobs and Repair Work by Day or Contract. Wailvku, Mali, T. II. Address of Dr. Vaterhonse. (Continued from it issue ). This! variety cei l, duly lias its own distinctive problem. Such as band' ling of the ouier baric, after the. first t:rmint llio I'ntiiil r.rvl ,M-1' f r,f tln ..... v ... Hex on exposure to air, et, etc. First tappings are as far as tluy have advanced in regard to Caitilloa on a large scale. So that, take it all mi nil, 1he rubber growing industr is Mill in its infancy. B idly, we will take up some of the questions to' bp answered in any variety with the experience else where. METHODS OF PLANTING. 1. In Nurseries. This is the most successful way in regard to the Ilevea. Subsequently the nurerj pirn Is arp planted out as seedlings or stumps. Some have used baskets for seedlings, but this has been given up. Planting stumps, however, has proved the best method. There has been some talk, I believe, of planting this year's llovea seeds ia Nahiku in basket?, but I think planting in a clean weeded nursery in a warm lorality and then st urnping those that have grown very well, would be best. They can remain even one or two years in the nursery, if necessary, in this way, though probably tha next spring would be a good time. 2 A t Stake. Insects, rats, etc:, are very troublesome when this is done. This method is very success ful in Castilloa, however, when seeds are cheap and a number can be plant ed together and one plant used. DISTANCES IN PLANTING. This is a most important subject and one on which there is a vry great variety of opinions. There are great variations. Trees are planted ail the way from 10x10 or 400 to the acre, to 20x20 and even 30x30; 15xl5or 200 to the acre is considered medium planting. Many plant closer'along the rows and with wider distances between the rows, as 10x10 and 20 feet between the rows, or 15x13 and 20 feet between the rows. However, it may be snid that the general tret.d of opinion in tho Malay peninsula and Ceylon is towards wid er planting and mor e room for ti e trees. In general, it may be said that close plautiug is more suited to poorer laud and wide planting to more fertile land. The plan of plauting closely wiih the idea of, in the early years, cutting out alternate trees, has not been found to be very successful, as they have to be cut out before they are old enough to pay for themselves or much more than do so, and in cut ling them out branches of the ottier trees are damaged a.id theoretically there is more danger of disease from the stump, etc. One argument for wide plauting is shown in the results on the highlands and lowlands estate iu the F. M. S. as sighted by Ivos Etherington. A block of Para rub ber trees 10 acres in extent contains 807 trpes planted 30j25 feet: These are nine years old and completely cover the ground. Overhe whole estate tho year's crop amounted to 95,333 pounds, from 33,907 trees tap ped all through the year, and 4072 lightly tapped. The average yield is 2.4it pounds per tree per year; but from 307 widely planted -trees the yield during the year was 5742 pounds of rubber, giving an average of 7.05 pounds per tree. Of course, this is not conclusive as the bulk of the trees i we're of all ages, though many of them were t) year old trees. That our Ceura trees planted 400 to the acre will have to be thiunu) out eventually there is no douut. However, by having tjie tirst tappings made on alternate trees, skill iu tap ling and experience can be acquired by tapping the trees which will tven tually be cut out before the alternate trees are touched, which can be allowed to grow considerably larger before being tapped. However, in these plantations at Nahiku, which have a considerable number of their trees planted 400 to the acre, it would seem advisable to plant, if not the rest, of their acreage with 200 trees to the acre say, at least enough to be able to judge later which proved to be the best method. One distance in planting sin. old not be adhered to excluaiv ly when in the developmental stage When countries where it costs al most nothing more to have 400 to the acre because tho place is clean weeci ed anyway, consider 200 to the acre moderate distauc?, it seems as though w here it is considerably more expen sive to plant so many trees as it means so many more trees to clean a i "u "'f I'1- u,1.lt V1 this cas:- it might be wise to hrvve part of the piantin at least wiih greater tlis tances and more room. From thy hliuo of the trees, one would imagine that a Ceara tree bavin-' vh.'n well shaped, sneli a dome ! i-i. . . hv-f. ex:dii-e iit leaves, woulo net even more rorm than the Ilevea. The thickness n the trr.nk is 'dependent en the ni inber of !aves and the sun light that L'ets to them With this obj"ct hi view, some planters thumb pri re their young trees, removing the terminal bud when the sapling gets to be 10 fept high or over. This gives ris-' to two brandies, which, after being a'lowed to grow a short ui'-tancc, are again thumb pruned, eU 'This greatly increases the leaf area and a consequent increase in girihof the trunk results. With tie' Castilloa they do different ly, planting a number of seeds on hil locks close to eaeti other and grnduah ly thinning out by experimental tap. pings un'il they obtain the desired number per acre. However, this is necessary in Castilloa, as many of the Castilloa do not give latex, whereas in Ileveas and Cearas. in the right localities and particularly with Ileve as, there is a marked uniformity. Often with Caslilloas, even with this careful selection, barren trees or those which soon become so, are left cccaMiiud'y. Weeding. There is no doubt that clean weeding is best, though expense may prevent it being carried out. Tapping This is of course most important, and, here the greatest advances will come, next to the pre paration of the rubber after collec 'ion of the latex. For Ilevea, various tapping tools have been devised, with the main objeet of not cutting into the cambium or growing part of the hat k. It matters not whether the tingle V, the honing bone, modilied hei ring bone, spiral or what the incision madp, the sumiuum bonum is to gut the greatest amount of latex with the least loss of hark and the least injury to the cambium. If the cambium is uninjured or left in strips on the bark new bark will grow up. It has been found best not to tap this new bark the next veir but in two years it cun be. tapp d again though normally it may not be necessi' ry for a longer period than that. There is another factor b.n ing on the subsequent yield of the tree and that is that the tree suffers from shock when the latex is lemoved in a laVge amount which is minimized by the system of multiple tapping to which the Ilevea variety lends itself so admirably, and in fact this is one of the things which have contributed iu giving it th power of yielding in larger and larger amounts when tap ped year after year. The Ceura promises to do likewise and it is up to us to demonstrate it. The Castilloa yields all at one time and in large quantities there being much lese rubber in the latex accord ing to the coagulation and prepara tion. The Uevealaiex is coago'aled in various ways but most often by acetic acid. The rubber is shipped in paneaUes or run tiirou-jh a ma chine giving crepe rubber or us worm rubber or best of all crepe rub tier-is blocKtd under pressure o that lit tie of the surfji-e is exposed. In Ca-iilloa the rubber is creani'd ( IT ; after mixing with water. At' t f k lllfl V-ll-i.l,' tr i 1,1-1 . 1. ...... . 'v e.u a grow inriM iuxu"iantiv aiu in proper localities seems to yield ex tremely well. Ilevea grows very slowly and may not yield at all. II we can ra' ,e enough Hevca to have our own f. -ed su; oly, then, if it is go ing to pay we ea i plant up Ilevea ii place of the Ceara, though we may find it to our advantage not to do so. As to quality Ilevea ard Ceara are about on a par. There is no questirn of the tremen dous.aiuount of planting going on 250,000 acres in Ceylon and ihe Ma lay states, !IO,()Oi) acres planted in Mexico. Plantings in li irneo, Java, Samoa and many South Sea Islands. Planting in Central Americi and Africa and ir. fact all over the tropi cal world. l!at On the other hand we planters see that side of the ques tion as the largest. Some cry over pi eduction; on the ot her side are the manufacturers saying we i.ever can have too much rubber. The consump tion is doubling every ten years and there are uew uses every day. Think of the increase of the uu'.o mobile trade. Probably, however, the result wid be that there will eventually be a considerable reduc tion in price after a few years which will multiply the uses of "rubber uud keep -up the price. If we can pro duce it for ",0 or 40 cpnts a pound, it will be" profitable for many years to come. Sonic Oilier Grafters. "Ail that tali' that, we've had in the newspapers about rebates, in--urnnce scandals, and boodle in poli tics 'has made interesting reading and good material for reform com mitters hut there is other graft that more directly . touches individual pocket books, and iiu(he aggregate f'-r enormous sums," declared the drummer for a wooden ware concern the other dav. "What do I mean? Whv, take, for example, butter, which, I suppose, furnishes the big gest source of graft. You know the retailer weighs butter out in little wooden trays, and he weighs the butter and tray together. You get fifteen ounces of butter and one ounce of wood for the trays weigh exactly an ounce each. The trays cost if there cost to the retailer were figur ed by weight but a thousandth part of the cost of butter. Hence you're robbed every time you buy butter. Who ever saw a dealer weigh out butter without including the tray? No one, gentlemen, no one. This graft is such a fixed custom that I doubt if the dishonesty of it ever oc curs to the dealer, nor does any one ever think to kick, but it's thievery all the same, and it costs the Ameri can public on butter alone $10,750,000 every year. "Why, figure it out for yourself," challenged the now excited drummer. "We used 1,072,000,000 pounds of butter lat year; if an ounce trey was included in every pound of hut ter asked for, there would be 1,072,000, 000 fifteen ounce pounds of butter s ld over the eour.ter by our white a broncd friends. In other words, the dealer grafts by the shaving pro eess 07,000,000 pounds of good butter by substituting G7, 000,000 pounds of wood. At an average pri?eol twenty-live cents a pound, this butter re presents a total of $16,750,000. There are 100,000 grocery and butter-stores in the United Slates to distribute this $10,750,000 aitauigst, iier.ee the graft per store on butter alone is $107.50, or quite enough to pay the average store rent. "Hut, great Scott, man I butter isn't the only graft source for the grocer. Codec is weighed out in tin or pasteboard cans, sugar comes to you in heavy paper boxes er heavier cloth sacks; the same with flour, and the grocer seldom weighs out any thing he sells unless he includes the packaging. Confectioners are doing the same thing They sell you six teen ounces of candy for fifty, sixty, cr eighty cents, and actually give yob fourteen ounces of sweetness and two ounces of fancy b-.x." E. C. Pv. The Daty on. Hides. In replying to the assertion of the Waterviile "Sentinel" that the Tariff on hides adds 10 cents to the price of every pair of shoes and costs the people of Maine $140,000 a year more than under the Wilson law the Ken n 'tu c "Journal" makes the excellent point, that shoes are as tdieap to dav as they were iu the dismal period of 1803 1S07 The "Journal" might have gone farther and shown that the Tariff affects only the heavier hides used in making sole leather, and that tho duty of 15 per cent caunot pos sibly increase the cost more than 2 cents a pair. This cost comes out of the manufacturer's profit ami not out of the consumer's pocket. Yet a a larger number of shoe manufactur ers havi; become enormously rich, and are gelling richer very fast in spite of that 15 per cent, duty on hides. Rightly the "Journal" contends that this duty should be retained because the farmers want it. Abolish the duly on what the farmers have to sell and the f-rmers would very quickly demand the removal of duties on wha t they have to buy. That would mean the end of all Protective duties. Though they apparently have not sense enough to see it. those who urge the removal of 'he duty on firm products practically advocate Free Trade That is the size of it. WAILUKU EXPRESS ANTON R !0 HKiiO, 1'KolV DRAYING and EXPRESSING Contracts taken f . r Hauling. Office: Queen Lodging House, Main Street BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 10. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION " OF ORDINANCE NO. 2 RELATING TOTI1E PRO MULOATION OF ORDI NANCES, PASSED BY THE HOARD OF SUPERVISORS, ON THE 7 DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1005. Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No 2. relating to the promulgation of ordinances, passed by the Board of Supervisors, on the 7 day of Sep tember, 1905, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2. It shall, thereupoli be the duty of the Clerk of the Board, as soon as practicable, to cause a true copy of such ordinance to be posted upon a Bulletin board in front of or near the room occupied by the Board of Supervisors, aud to also cause a t-ue copy thereof to be pub lished in one issue of a newspaper of general circulation published at the County seat." Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after being posted upon a Bulletin board in front of or near the room occupied by the Board of Sjpervisors and its publica tion o ce a week for a period of two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation pubirshed at the County seat. Board of Supervisors within and for the County of Maui. By(Sgn.) W. HENNING, Chairman. SEAL. Attest: I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance, upon consideration had and vote taken, was passed by the Hoard of Supervisors of Maui County, on the 10th day of October, 1907, at their regular meeting held in Wailu ku, Maui. (Sgn.) W. F. Kaae, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors County of Maui. Oct. 19, 26. The Board of License Commission ers for the County of Maul will hold a meeting at the public room in tho Masonic Temple, Kuhului, on Tues day the 5th of November 1907 at 2 P. M. to consider the application of Peter Joseph for a Saloon License to sell intoxicating liquors at Pelekunu, Kijla, District of Makawao In a new building in frnt of the residence of Adam Forsyth at said Pelekunu under the provisions of Act 119, Jession Laws of 1907. All protests or objections against the issuance of a license under said application should be filed with the Secretary of the Board uot later thau the time set for said hearing. October lt, 1907. D. C. LINDSAY, Secretary, Board of License Com missioners. October 5, 12, 19, 2G. CENTRAL SALOON MABKCT STUbb Waimjku ANTONE BORBA, Prop. Full line of popular brands ot WINES, LIQUORS, CORDIALS. BRAND1ES A'UIffKIES, GINS Etc. Etc. Celebrated Primo & Seattle Mottled Daor ( 25c 2 Glasses 25c BISMARK STABLES CO.Ud WAILUKU, MAUI LIVERY, BOARD and SALES STABLES The BISMARK STABLES proposes to run the Leaping Livert Stable Business on MAUI DRUMMERS' LIGHT WAGQNS Excursion Rates to Iao aud Ha'e ak-ala with competent guides , and drivers NEW RIGS- -NEW TEAMS NEW MANAGEMENT NOTICE OF POWER OF AT-TORNEY. Notice Is hereby given that, during my absence from the Territory of Hawaii, 1). H. Case of Wailuku, Maui, will act as my attorney in fact. t.f. CHARLES D. LUFKIN,