Abstract

No single advantage could be afforded to the vast rural population of India that would equal the introduction of an improved system of agriculture".-Court of Directors in the Educ. Despatch of 1854. The great European war and the consequent dislocation of sailings throughout the world has created a novel situatic in the Hawalian islands. The sugar factories are experiencing serious shortage in bags (gunny?). About 1 millions of bags re an- nually imported into Hawai for the Sugarcane crop alone while coffee, rice and other industries take up another million. To get over this difficulty it is in the air to try and compress the sugar into large blocks. We should soon be prepared to see large blocks of Sugar being rolled into, and out of, steamers trading in sugar. T. S. V. (From the Lousiana Planter).

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