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Appendix "D." 
PRODUCTION OF LIME OX THE ISLAND OF OAHU. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 14, 1908. 
The Waianae Lime Company has 305 acres of land at Waianae, 
Oahu, from whence limestone is brought to Honolulu in raw 
state by cars of the Oahu Railway & Land Company and deliv- 
ered at kilns situated at Iwilei adjacent to the oil tanks. At Iwilei 
the plant consists of cooper shop, barrel warehouse, lime ware- 
house and kiln building. Kilns are two in number, known as 
Schneider Patent L'pright Kilns, are equipped with forced draft 
and have capacity of two hundred and seventy-five barrels per 
day. Lime is of high calcium quality and averages 97.20 pure, 
and is mostly used for fertilizer on sugar plantations. 
EXHIBIT OF ISLAND PRODUCE. 
The suggestion to make an exhibit of Hawaiian produce at 
Washington during the next eight or nine months, while the 
tariff is under revision, is an excellent one, though the benefit 
accruing from making the exhibition would probably justify the 
expense of rendering it permanent. If such a collection were 
centrally situated where all who visit Washington could inspect 
and test our island produce, the benefits to be derived would be of 
far more value than a discussion of tariff rates and schedules. 
Such an undertaking should include a display of our pineapples 
shown in glass jars, of our coffee, our tobacco, rubber, sisal and 
various island fruits, both fresh and preserved. It should also 
be prepared to distribute samples of all our goods put up in as 
attractive a manner as possible, and to keep a supply of choice 
fresh fruit to introduce to visitors such varieties as our producers 
are endeavoring to market. 
From the plot of spineless lime trees at the Dominica Botanic 
Station a crop of 26 barrels of fruit was obtained in 1906-7, and 
29 barrels in 1907-8. The plot which consists of twenty-eight 
trees, planted at distances of 12 feet by 12 feet, has received a 
mulch of leaves each year in the dry season. — Agricultural News, 
Barbados. 
The amount of balata shinned from the North-Western Dis- 
trict of British Guiana for the year 1907-8 was 153.532 lbs., as 
against 149,342 lbs. exported in 1906-7. The rubber exports, 
however, fell from 1,638 lbs. in 1906-7, to 944 lbs. in 1907-8. 
Small farmers in the district are reported to be planting the 
native rubber trees (Sapium spp.) on their lands in considerable 
quantity. 
