The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-11-11
ARTICLES.
IRON Tie Daily Pacysc Commercial Adretl

Is felt In the country IN the encouragement
of our Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society.
= while ago the financial prosperity of this
country depended upon the products OF the
sea. There was only one crop, and that was
oil. Now the prosperity of the country l.
dependent entirely on the soil, and stI!I we
have only one crop and that is sugar. We
ought TO have n hundred different crops,
because we combine the advantages OF the
tropical and temperate zones. We can not
only raise more sugar TO the acre, out we
can produce more wheat, barley, oats, pota-
toes, turnips and other roots and fruits
Of all kinds, than any other country, tenn
perate or tropical. Let people be stimulated
by discussion, by prizes and by competitive
exhibitions, and we will astonish the world
with our 2O0-lb. pumpkins, our lUO-lo. de-
licious melons, our lO-inch diameter tur-
nips, our prize wheat so bushels to the acre,
and Indian corn ever SO much more. AT
an elevation ranging from 500 TO 1000 feet
above the sea level, our EuLd or uplands will
surpass in grain and fruit production any
thing that California has ever done. When
grist-mills were running IN Nalluku, over
twenty wears ago, we nave known eighty
six bushels of good wheat to be threshed
out of a measured acre of land. Now what
is the plant required for the production of q
crop of wheat? y good moline ploW, a span
of horses, and Il pair of stout arms. 1t is
true we no longer have mills to make our
own flour, and one schooner load of grain
would overstock the Honolulu market for
chicken feed, but II attention was given TO
grain raising on our uplands, we might be
sending cargoes of grain abroad. 1t is n
pity that all our agricultural energy should
be confined to one plant, and that one at
tended with such RISK that 1t Is like going
into gold mining or stock gambling to an
deTtake sugar planting. Only strong-handed
and bold operators can win. But In the
varied capacity of our wonderfully fertile
soil there is an opportunity for the weakest
hands and the smallest means. Now it is
To be hoped that our Royal Hawaiian Agri-
cultural Society will stimulate a more
varied production from the soil. All we'll
wishers of these islands will be del GIFTED to
see a good Hawaiian Agricultural Show.
The King, as President, will populariZe tie
exhibition. We all want to see what the
country has been doing in the improvement
of fine horses, choice breeds of cattle, supe-
rior wool stock, valuable poultry, and the
various roducts of the soil. We cannot
conceive a more entertaining and instructive
exhibition than such n one as a-zealous and
faithful agricultural society can get up IN
this city. Let us imagine it gotten up in
the Park or elsewhere, and contemplate the
fine array of superior animals that could be
brought together. Horses from the best
stock of Kentucky; cattle from the Durham,
Devon and Jersey breeds; sheep from the
famed Rambouillet inc Infanta stocks; the
rarest of Dorkins, Cochin China. Hamburgs,
and Dominique fowls; with trbles grooming
under pyramids of choice and assorted
fruits, and browning all, Il floral display
that would reveal to the stranger not only
the marvellous capacity of our soil, but the
exquisite taste of our lady florists. We long
to see this agricultural show, and many
correspondents are prompting US to discuss
and stimulate its realization. The names
comprising the Board of Management are
a guarantee of its success.
WE said in a former article on the COM
plants which are every day heard about
the condition of the streets of Honolulu,
that the Government and the Road Super
visor were expected " to make bricks with
ont ~ ~ - No Gnffniant nnfOnrl1tI0n
have eVerbeen made for the formation and
maintenance of the streets of the city.
Hon lulu has grown very rapidly for some
time passive may say that, compared with
the previous state of things, it has X
perienced n sudden growth in every di-
rection. Under such circumstances, the
appliances for traffic, the lighting, and
other things necessary for tae public well
fare are sure to be behind the requirements
of the times, even where a city admins
tration of an advanced type, and worked
bY energetic men, is in existence. DO
what they will, those who have the care OF
4 nnd their work outstripped by the demand
where times of sudden and rapid progress
occur. Here, therefore, where we have nc
city government properly so called, no
sufficient sum available for the work, ano
no experienced head to devise and carry
out a judicious plan of improvements it is
no wonder that every thing is behind hand
and chaotic. The best city, executive that
could be got, provided with ample funds
could not have lone all that the popular
voice would nave demanded of them
They could not have Overtaken the work
Has any one who says his should be
done" or that has been neglected" ever
asked himself how much work and how
much money the sum total of all these
omitted things would call for? For in
stance, who has ever ascertained how many
miles of streets there are in Honolulu
before he cried out about the condition of ;
few hundred yards of one of them AS
matter of fact, the area of the street:
within what are usually considered to b'
the limits is more than 1853 acres. Fancy
what it means to put a good cNating o
road-metal on even half of that area how
many carts and how many horses to con
yey the broken stone to where it should be
laid, how many hands to spread it, how
steam roller are involved in the trans
action. All this costs money, and it al
takes time-the time not merely of tn,
men who labor at it, but of those who plaI
and superintend and look after tue mel
while they are at work. What we hav
already said we would emphatically repea
the city of Honolulu must remain a dis
grace to us all until we are ready to &c
, cept a municipal government and pay tn,
rates necessary to provide for all the worl
we cry out for.
THE good name of this country has Ia
, doubt been seriously injured by the mis-
representations originating with the Sal
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