Four tons per acre is not a surprising crop; and, from all I can hear, I judge that two and a half tons per acre may be considered a fair yield.

The soil, too, with proper treatment, appears to be inexhaustible.

The common custom is to take off two crops, and then let the field lie fallow for two years; but where they irrigate even this is not always done.

There is no danger of frost, as in Louisiana, and cane is planted in some part of the islands in almost every month of the year.

In Lahaina it matures in from fourteen to sixteen months; in some districts it requires eighteen months; and at greater altitudes even two years.
But under all the varying circumstances, whether it is irrigated or not, whether it grows on bottoms or on hill slopes, in dry or in damp regions, everywhere the cane seems to thrive, and undoubtedly it is the one product of the islands which succeeds.