Ioa Valley, Oahu.

This is one of the beautiful regions which have earned for the Hawaiian Islands the name of the "Paradise of the Pacific." It is situated on the island which contains the capital.

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be borne in mind that the Hawaiian cane requires from eighteen to twenty-two months to mature, and the upland growths as much as thirty. Even with this allowance made the superiority of Hawaii over all other sugar lands in the matter of volume is strikingly great. This is due largely to irrigation but probably even more to frequent replanting. Ratooning is practised to only a very limited extent. Only first year stubbles are cultivated, and when in the opinion of the manager they will not produce thirty tons of cane (equivalent to about four tons of sugar) they are plowed up and the land reset. Thus the high average of the crop is maintained, whilst in other sugar-growing countries it is customary to run the cane for from eight to fifteen years, with a constantly diminishing yield.

THE WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF IRRIGATION.

Something of the wonderful results that have been secured through the agency of irrigation may be conceived from the fact that in the early eighties the crop of the Island of Oahu was less than three thousand tons, and a careful government inspection elicited the opinion that with more scientific and economical methods it might be increased by four hundred tons. Twenty years later the output of this island was in excess of one hundred thousand tons. Of course improved manufacture boo bad ito rout in