The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-04

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produce ten or twelve gallons of beautiful, cleal
and perfectly inodorous oil that burns well.
$ DoNKEYs,
which have become numerous. have also been
slaughtered for their oil The kanakas are very
fond of their meat, and also of that of the horse.
Live horses and live donkeys are used to bait
for sharks. This is a dreadful cruelty practlced
by the natives. The plunging animal, whose
head is fastened to a buoy, attracts large shoals
of the shovel-nosed monsters, which ravenously
tear the launches and TANKS of the poor beast,
and they are needless of the Kanakas. in canoes,
who spear them.
are too plentiful. The islands have more than
they want. Cattle have been killed for their
hides and tallow, and the meat thrown away.
Perhaps not much beef is now thrown away, as
it can be advantageously salted and packed, and
sold to whaleships. Still, there are too many cat
tie, and they are destroying valuable forests and
groves that will be much needed by and by. Of
course, with an increased emigration all this sur
plus of cattle will come in very well.
Good fat bullocks for the butcher, that will
produce from five hundred TO six hundred pounds
of neat beef, are worth in Honolulu about $40 a
head. Steers, in middling condition., have been
sold in large quantities quite recently, as low as
81 n head. Ten dollars is O fair price for n COW
in any of the islands, except in the vicinity of
Honolulu. Beef is excellent. Better cannot be
got in any American market. Fat bullocks, fed
only on good pasture, have produced one thousand
two hundred and one thousand three hundred
pounds of neat beef, and about one hundred and
fifty pounds of tallow. Hides are worth on an
average SO a piece in Honolulu. Plenty of good
working oxen are to be procured on all the islands.
Several dairies are established and milk and
butter are plentiful although butter commands a
good price. fifty cents per pound, which is very
high, considering that cattle have not to be win
tered, and are on pasture all the year round.
SHEEP
are also very plentiful, and thrive very well.
They haze no enemies and no diseases in the ISL
ands. The ewes usually drop two lambs. Not
more than three Per cent. are lost i'm cutting. The
ewes would lamb three times i'm two years, if
permitted where hocks are not regulated the
ewes lamb all the year round. The increase is
very fast. Six hundred ewes were placed upon a
run in 1868 in 1869 the flock has increased TO
seven thousand and over four thousand have
been sold and slaughtered out of it. This is not
n particularly large increase for the islands.
An average marketable wether throughout the
island will weigh, net, ~sixty-fve pounds. Weth-
ers on the ranches of Molokai and Lanai will
average eighty pounds net ofvery superior mutton.
The King has the best muttons on his ranch in
Molokai. The average fleece is about three
pounds. Good wether focks will average five
pounds and there are many rams that will clip
from nine to twelve pounds of fine merino wool.
The most OF the tlocks are wool sheep. Only re-
Gently has attention been paid to the introduction
OF sheep for carcasc. Improved stock have been
literally imported from England, Saxony, France,
California and Australia. The best Saxony,
Negretti and Rambouillet rams have been intro
duced. Mutton sheep are worth 81 so n head i'm
market and 81 a head on the ranches, if bought
in quantities. Molokai and Lanai are famous for
fat sheep. Hawaii, Niihau, and Kahoolawe have
fine sheep runs but although sheep husbandry is
very profitable in the islands, it is certainly not
the best way to employ these rich tropical lands,
and OF course the sheep and cattle runs will be
turned into sugar, coffee and cotton plantations
when plenty of intelligent emigrants arrive to
work the lands. To start q sheep ranch is a good
and a sure enterprise for a beginner with a small
capital.
are also too plentiful. The ewes drop three and
four kids at a time. The increase is enormous.
About one hundred thousand are annually killed
for their skins alone and tie meat is thrown
away. Yet the meat of the goat of the islands is
very sweet. The ribs and shoulders stewed are
preferred, by many foreign residents, to mutton.
Such meat, however, cannot be sold, except some
small quantities dried for laborers on plantations.
Goats are usually worth fifty cents q head.
There are no diseases peculiar to sheep or goats;
neither scab, foot rot or other diseases.
THE HEALTHINEss
of the islands is their chic. attraction. Constant
winds and breezes, without any tempests, keep
them mildly attempered. If you have a good
constitution, you will wear we'll. If YOU have a
weak one, you will hold your own better than
elsewhere provided in all cases you have common
sense, and will not persist in habits and abuses of
other climates. In the high, cool valleys, and on
the table lands, man ought to live forever, if it
ever be possible to do SO, because there are no ex-
tremes to wear and tear and to breathe and to
live. is never n struggle, but a constant Joy.
WEATHER.
There is no violent weather. No tornadoes of
the West Indies, nor typhoons Of the East Indies.
No hurricanes of America. No cyclones of Asia.
No simoons of Africa. No horrible tempests of
other parts of the world.
The timid arc rarely alarmed with thunder and
lightning. Electric phenomena are usually con-
fined to the lofty ranges of mountains. You may
not hear a thunder clap during a whole year. In
three years, on the island of Lanai, from 1854 to
1856, there was only one thunder storm. Grand
of electric flashes may be seen afar off in
the mountains but the valleys and the coasts
know little of thunder and lightning.
Rain and shine are well divided. OF course,
the higher up, near the mountains, the more rain;
and on the coast, the more sunshine. But the
rain is never in floods, and the sun never kills
its strokes.
There are plenty Of. rivulets and mountain !
streams. The water of the mountain springs is !
it oozes from rocks pure and cold like
Uttered icc-water. Sailors have found brackish
water in wells on the beach but the wise emi- :
grant will go on up to the valleys and plateaus, =,
where green grass, and fruit, and flowers, and
sweet cold water are all the year round.
y quiet and peaceful condition prevails, like g
The character ofthe people. There are no terrors
of nature, if we except the volcano, which is ,
more n wonder than n terror. There are no nox- =
beasts or reptiles on the islands. F.,
THERE ARE No SNAKES. u
The cursed symbol of the Tempter is unknown
IN these islands. You can wander in the woodsA J
md sleep in the grass without fear. 1t is a Joy u
push through the thicket without dread of a \
urking foe. Nature has been very gentle in
:hese lands. No deadly cobra, no dread rattle y
no hideous asp, no fearful boa, no desola- a
ing anaconda. A. is sweet peace and song ip :.
Hawaiian groves. You stretch out and sleeb "
without fear, and say God is kind here. b
Good FiPe.WOOd! :.
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