The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-10-01

There is, perhaps, no better illustration to De
found in these islands of the success attending the
right selection of a spot for the intended agricul-
tural pursuit than that of the choice of Kahuku
on this island as a pasture and for grazing only.
No one can visit the place without being struck
with its adaptation to that purpose. Had it been
selected for q grain farm or a plantation, or even
a dairy, it would have been a losing concern.-
It's gentlemanly proprietor. beings thorough bred
grazier, saw at a glance, on inspection, the merits
of the locality, and all his subsequent observation
has only confirmed his frs judgment. The pas
turage being of a superior quality and the range
easily defined, though ten miles in extent, the re.
suit is that the finest cattle, sheep and horses on
the island are to be found there, and their quail.
ity being superior, the beef, mutton, and wool
are in demand beyond the ability of the propri-
etor to supply them, while The cost of keeping the
stock in the best condition, and the loss from
straying and sickness. is less than ON any part OF
the islands. We instance this to show the value
of applying practical knowledge to ones business,
especially in the proper selection of a site for ag-
ricultural pursuits.
All our grain growing up to this day is moth
ing more than a series of experiments carried on
from year to year. Though grain will grow on
all the islands of our group, it has been found
remunerative only on the highlandsof East Maui
in a district which may be called a variable be-
tween that over which the trade wind drops con-
slant rain and that which is subject to the drier
land and sea breezes. 1t is thought by many
that on Hawaii will be yet found localities better
adapted to all kinds of grain than any yet tried.
We want practical farmers, with the ade-
quate means to locate there and to put the mat
ter to a test for many productive districts are
left to run wild, which with capital and knowl-
edse might be enriching the islands.
Although thorough farmers are wanted here,
the means to carry on agriculture is equally
needed. And where these two elementS8eapital
and skill-are combined, we believe that there is
no new country where success can be more conf
IDENTIFY relied on 1t is true that many disadvan-
tages exist, so there do elsewhere, but they yieldas
readily to the practical here as in any other coun-
try.
We published last week the report that the
coffee plantations on Kauai have been attacked
and seriously injured by an insect, whose destruc-
tiveness has not heretofore been feared. We do not
join in the suggestion there alluded to, of giving
up the plantations ON this account, for The dis
ease is new and the remedy is yet to be found
That there is a remedy we have no doubt, and the
communication of DR.. VIM. Hi1lebrand, which
we publish to-day, may throw light on the man
ner in which the insect must be successfully at
tackled. Thorough experimenting is needed. 1t
is barely probable that the insect will not attack
the plants a second consecutive year. But
whether they do or not, the gentlemen who are
engaged in the plantations at Hanalei should not
allow their labor of years to be destroyed without
testing every available remedy.