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Figure 126. Made by a grower in the Kohala area, this portable nut husker uses a small wheelbarrow tire. 90 Figure 127. Herbicide tank used at Keaau Orchard in the early 1950s. Isamu Yamauchi, operator, filling the tank, 1954. (COUflt·..y of Malilla Loa Maradamia NUl Corp.) Figure 128. Rat guard placed at the base of the Purvis tree at Kapulena, Hawaii, in the early times.
Figure 129. Honeybee hives placed in the orchard at Martin Sebastian's Circle S Ranch, 1975. Figure 130. Separalion of kernels from shells was accomplished in a rotating drum by having the shells, which are lighter in weight than the kernels, spill over the edge. The remaining shells were hand separated. The smaller pieces and fines were separated through screened pOrlholes in Ihe lower porlion of the drum. This machine was used by Mamoru Takilani of Hawaiian Host Candy in his original candy factory in the attic of his father's soda-walerbOltling building in Wailuku, Maui, about 1955. Figure 131. Geese were used for weed control in the 1950s by letting the flock forage in sugarcane and macadamia fields to keep them praclically weed free. The geese especially liked nut grass tubers, and they had 10 "till" the land to reach the lubers growing in the ground. 9\
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630 US ISSN 0271-9916 April 1984 Ma
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FRONTISPIECE John Macadam, scientis
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INTRODUCTION The macadamia is indig
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many honors, he has a river, a moun
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etween latitudes 28° and 29° sout
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Men of Hawaii and old newspapers at
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about the early hardships and poor
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Basic Research Simultaneously with
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With visions of becoming the larges
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profitability. In a larger plantati
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east of Kauai. Measured wind veloci
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Figure 38. Hurricane Iwa over Kauai
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Figure 45. Windbreaks in macadamia
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Page 76 and 77: 74 PICTORIAL APPENDICES Figure 92.
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