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IMolfic Const Department: HOWARD IIROWN & SONS, General Agents
411-413 California St., San Francisco.
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and is good for you.
RAINIER BOTTLING WORKS
AGENTS, HONOLULU
PLANTERS,
SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO! THE FACT THAT
THE ONLY
ORIGINAL AND
CELEBRATED
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Is that which has been manufactured for the past fifteen
years exclusively by the
California Fertilizer Works
SAN FRANCISCO, OAL.
When purchasing be sure that in addition to the brand
the name of the California Fertilizer Works is on every
sack, otherwise you will not be getting the genuine article.
A large stock of our Diamond A and our
XX HIGH-GRADE FERTILIZER
Is kept constantly on hand and for sale at San Francisco
prices, plus only freight and actual expenses,
By Our Hilo Agonts,
L. TURNER CO.
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Roslclont Agonts, HILO
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ATTENTION!
FERTILIZER
IIANANAS IX JAMAICA.
Tin Sjslmi of .Miirliolliiu'iiinl lliiud
line There.
There is no tcn.son why the
banana industry of Hawaii ciiunnt
develop as good n market in the
Pacific Coast territory as that of
the West Indies has done in the
Atlantic Coast tenitory.
Jamaica lias about doubled its
shipment of fruit in the past five
years, the annual value thereof
being now above five million dollars,
or over 60 per cetit of the total ex
ports of the colony. Nearly seven
eighths go to the United States,
and the remainder to the United
Kingdom and other British pos
sessions. In the year 1903 the to
ta1 quantity of bananas grown and
exported by Jamaica was about
million hunches. It is estimated
that 33,000 acres are under culti
vation, comprising 240 estates or
thereabout, which vary in area
ftom 20 to 500 or 600 acres, to
gether with holdings of less than
20 acres cultivated by hundreds of
settlers. Old abandoned cane lauds,
on the southern side of the island,
have been transformed into luxuri
ant banana groves yielding, by the
aid of irrigation, 300 bunches to
the acre.
The foregoing data, together with
many pratical lessons, are contained
in a report on the fruit industry of
Jamaica by V. 12. Smith, manager
of the Trinidad government rail
way, who visited Jamaica as, a
special representative of the Trini
dad Agricultural Society. Jamaica
has a code of regulations that have
become the recognized standard
there for buying and selling. A
full bunch, or "straight" as it is
technically known, consists of nine
hands or better. Kight hands
count as three-quarters, seven
hands as a half and six hands as a
fourth. Abnormal bunches ok
fourteen and fifteen hands are
generally subject to higher prices
by arrangement.
"15ig bunches mean better fruit,
more convenient handling and safer
carriage, also lnglier prices lrom
the wholesale dealer," Mr. Smith
writes. "These the shipper re
quires, and pays lus premium lor
getting. He does not want small
and inferior specimens, and will
only take a limited proportion of
them in any case. On the other
hand, the grower cannot, under the
most favorable circumstances, avoid
a certain percentage of small
bunches, and he is quite satisfied to
sell them at the reduced rates re
ferred to. The fruit cut from young
plants is usually undersized. Patches
of inferior laud and unfavorable
situations produce similar results,
and from a variety 'of causes the
planter is obliged to reckon upon a
proportion of low grades in his
annual crop. At any rate, the
arrangement seems to work all
right in Jamaica and is generally
considered to be perfectly equable.
Its reaction upon the cultivators is,
moreover, far-reaching and bene
ficial, inasmuch as it forces upon
them the all-important necessity of
good tillage, intelligent manage
ment and careful handling, as the
only means of realizing satisfactory
returns.
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or cutting, handling and transport- D,sjss, Shimpo (The New TimeO
ing bananas in Jamaica is one of 'which has 400 thousand subscribers.
increasing care and anxiety
The
below
stem is cut on the top, just
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over and is caught by a second read by the people was recently
helper. It is not allowed to fall to suppressed for publishing articles
the ground. A sharp machete or I ngninst the war with the Russians,
cutlass does the requisite trimming, Jj? editor-in-chief was Deputy
and the refuse is afterward chopped mma .,....
up and left on the soil. The re-1 Coui.n Scakcki.y Walk. Mr.
maiuing stump is allowed gradually . 0. S. Purtou, n resident of Kyne
to rot from the top, which admits ! ton, Victoriu, Australia, says:
of the heavy amount of sap it con-1 "Some time ago I was attacked
tains being, slowly returned to t with severe pains and stiffness in
nourish the young sucker at its my legs, which affected me so that
root. The bunches are next roimh- I could scarcely walk, when I was
jly graded and tallied, then carried
("headed" is the word used to de
signnte the mode of carrying) out
to some convenient place and
there packed in trash to await
removal to the nearest rail-
way station or shipping deport. All
this is done under the ' eye of an
experienced overseer.
Donkeys ate used for cariying
the bunches crook fashion; and
where carting hn to b performed,
the fruit is carefully stowed in the
vehicles, trash being used to pie
vent bruising and chafing. It is I
a crime for any person even to at
tempt to ride 011 top of a load of,
bananas in transit. Specially con
structed wagons and carts are used
in Jamaica for conveying bananas
over the country roads.
When the journey has to be per
formed partly by rail, the bananas
are brought to thestatiou and trans
ferred to the cars with the same
amount of watchfulness and core
as before. Trash is again used,
and the work of loading is under
taken almost entirely by the buyer's
agents.
In putting bananas afloat, the
main features consist in "heading
and shouldering" the stems from
the sheds on the wharves into the
holds of the ship combined with
the smart work done by the expert
checkers, under whose eyes every
individual bunch undergoes a final
inspection. These fruit vessels al
so pick up fruit around the coast,
where bananas have to be handled
from shore to ship in boats of var
ious kinds. In steamers bound for
the United States the fruit is stow
ed on simple racks or binns, with
out any trash whatever, and the
holds are specially ventilated only.
The comparatively short voyage of
four and a half to five days does
not call for any other treatment,
but with the boats to Bristol and
Manchester, Kngland, cool storage
on the most approved principle is
provided. Mr. Smith says:
"I do not think that many
Jamaica bananas arc crated. A
system of care, that is never re
laxed from start to finish, would
seem to take the place of any such
precautions, which are not only
costly but go to reduce the carry
ing capacity of the ship's holds. I
was told that in vessels properly
installed with cool chambers no
crating is necessary, not even trash."
In his concluding remarks, Mr.
Smith has the following to say on
the profits Trinidad might expect
from the banana industry, and
people in Hawaii considering his
remarks must bear in mind the con
ditions of careful handling and
carrying he lays down:
"I am nevertheless convinced
that the growing of bananas for
the English and American markets
might profitably be undertaken in
this colony. Personally, I should
be satisfied to take a net yield of
,5 (about $25) per acre. It is an
axiom in Jamaica that nothing re-
ponds so readily to good cultivation
as bananas, and over a short series
of years an average estate will give
just about double what is spent up
on it, all other things being equal."
Hawaiian Forester and Agricul
turist.
The .luimiiesn Cress.
In Japan there are actually 4,000
newspapers. It was in 1852 that
the first paper was published in that
country. In 1879 there were 226,
in 1886 there were published 2,000
and now there are '4.000. Tokio
has 1 20, the principal newspapers
being: Djimin Shimpo (The
Times), Nippon (Japan), Djimin
(The People,) Kakormen Shiuibun
(The National), and Tokio Nitelli
Shiuibiui (The Tokio Journal).
iiacn issue 11ns 4s large size pages
with illustrations, photogravures,
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; shiml'iiii which was very much
recommended to try a bottle of!
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local chemist, Mr. Stredwick. I
have used it once a day since, and
have experienced wonderful relief,
I am indeed grateful for the good it '
has done me and shall be happy to I
'recommend Chamberlain's Pain
j Halm to anyone suffering from a '
similar complaint." h'or sale by1
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ESTABLISHED 1864
N. OHLANDT & CO.
Manufacturkus
FERTILIZERS
Of Euery Description.
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High Grade Tankage.
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Offlco:
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Certificate nf Analysis accompanies our shipments, which we gunrautee
to le correct.
K. T. GUARD,
Agent for the Hawaiian Islands
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made new for a few cents and
a little labor. With
The
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UP-TO-DATE PRINTING
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J. A. Muck
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