BANANA CULTURE TN HAWAII 
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Table 7. 
■Number of bunches and valuation of bundles exported from the 
Hawaiian lsj<ni<ls ' 
Year 
Number 
of 
bunches 
Valuation 
Year 
Number 
of 
bunches 
Valuation 
L856 
93 
1891 
116,660 
105,375 
92, 909 
113, 118 
98, 164 
120, 659 
74,759 
79, 482 
88,416 
9, 733 
$179, 501. 00 
1 857 
1892. 
1893 „ 
104,945.00 
1 858 
150 
92, 020. 00 
1894 
112,930. 75 
I860 
1895 
97,813.00 
1861 
1896 
121,273.00 
1862 
121 
60 
1,781 
1,211 
1.771 
2,913 
:•!. 966 
6,936 
4,007 
4,280 
4,508 
6,492 
6,449 
10,518 
14, 982 
15, 995 
18, 431 
12, 369 
19, 164 
20, 776 
18, 848 
44, 902 
58, 040 
60, 046 
45, 862 
58, 938 
71, 335 
105. 630 
97, 201 
1897 
71,364.50 
S 
1898 
65, H8.61 
1864 
1899 
1900 
83, 1 93. 82 
3 " 
9, 317. 00 
- 
1901 
74, 4 1 4. 00 
1867 
1902 
70, 888. 00 
- g 
1903 
66, 180.00 
1869 
1904 
91, 338. 00 
1870 
1905 
120,653.00 
1871 
1906 
131, 806. 00 
1872 
1907 
1 15, 771. 00 
1S73 
1908 
160, 944. 00 
1^74 
1909 
209, 676. 00 
Jft 
1910. 
87.615 
183, 201 
226, 445 
223. 762 
200, 482 
280, 629 
244, 118 
243, 558 
119,019 
115,127 
182, 772 
154, 423 
217, 722 
206, 552 
222.138 
255, 641 
51, 229. 00 
1876. 
1911. 
108,414.00 
1912. 
140, 720. 00 
1878... 
1913... 
143, 472. 00 
1879... 
1914 
126,455.00 
1880... 
1915. .. 
189, 578. 00 
1916 . 
166,977.00 

1882 
1917.. 
170,368.00 
1883 
1918... 
90, 988. 00 
1884 
1919... 
102, 796. 00 
1885 
$58, 803. 50 
43, 824. 25 
54, 703. 25 
69, 208. 00 
135.278.00 
178, 351. 00 
1920. .. 
76, 020. 00 
1886 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
1925 
151,968.00 
1887 
1888 
214, 255. 00 
212, 624. 00 
1889 
211,343.00 
1890 
1 Compiled from published reports of the Customs House, Honolulu. No records of values are given 
for the period 1856-1885, and no records of bunches for the period 1901-1910. All data are for the calendar 
year except for the period 1901-1910, which was for the fiscal year. The valuations of the period 1905-1909, 
inclusive, include those for shipments of pineapples (fresh fruit), which probably amounted to 50 per cent. 
The number of bunches inspected for export for the year 1925 was furnished by the Federal Horticultural 
Board, Honolulu. 
Bananas from Central American and West Indian ports are sent 
long distances in regular steamers usually having cold-storage 
capacity for 10,000 to 20,000 bunches, and carrying passengers and 
general freight as Avell. Although the banana does not require the 
low temperature necessary in transporting frozen meat, it does re- 
quire a complicated cooling apparatus to maintain a constant cir- 
culation of fresh air because of the heat which the fruit is constantly 
generating by respiration. Usually, the ships are equipped with 
loading and unloading apparatus enabling them to receive and dis- 
charge about 2,000 bunches of fruit per hour. The fruit is carried 
into different parts of the United States by box cars or refrigerator 
cars, depending upon the season and the distance to be covered. In 
winter the cars are often heavily lined with paper and the fruit is 
packed in straw as a protection against the cold. In summer re- 
frigerator cars are used to prevent undue ripening on long journeys. 
ENEMIES 
Enemies of the banana in Hawaii are mainly insects, fungus dis- 
5, rats, and possibly nematode worms, none of which has given 
serious trouble The Japanese beetle (Adorer us umbrosus) is oc- 
