Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-04-18
BtfRY FRo>rECFs

DtTRT PROSPECTS
In treating upon the subjects re.
la,ing to the development OF various
local industries We are painfully aware
of feeling OF indifference thereto by
the majority, perhaps, OF island readers
Some from inability to enter into any
OF the promising projects, others from
the fact OF their interest in imports, and
others again who scout the possibility OF
successful tropit farming, or OF devel
oping industries under the present state
OF the country and It's labor market that
can compete with prices at which simi.
lar imported articles can be laid down
here all these are inclined to pass them
by Yet there are some who do not be.
lieye that no good thing can come out
OF Nazareth that it is encouraging 10
see, and our province is to aid such with
all the light We can throw upon II.
Others again might become interested
did they but know the amount of money
sent abroad year after year for even the
very necessities of lite hence these
facts and figures. They are such as to
command many to pause and consider.
Were ye to present a table OF what we
pay abroad for the privilege OF living
a, the Hawaiian Islands IL would aston
ish some readers when the small mum.
ber OF our population is considered.
Yet who would think, for 4 moment,
that we paid TO san Francisco S55,o35
last wear to butter the bread and cakes
We made from the SI7o,,5o worth OF
flour and meal imported. The Islands
have been famed for years for its cattle
runs, but dairying has been an almost
neglected business 4 few localities on
the islands have made themselves a
name for the excellence OF the butter
sent to market, but they are each too
limited to begin to supply the market,
even at the high rates demanded. We
have no means OF knowing the aggre
gate of our home manufacture, but
from the quantity of butter imported ii
is evident tha, it is Iso,5o pounds
short OF the demand And we are in.
olined to use the word demand in an
emphasized sense from the fact that
island butter, as a rule, is preferred to
the imported article We might take,
into consideration, too, that other pro,
duct OF the dairy, cheese, for which we
paid abroad las, year $IS,o25.79 at an
exchange rate at times Of 81 per cent.
premium for the privilege of paying fol
it in L. 5. gold coin.
Within the past few years much in,
,erest has been taken in the importa
ton OF improved dairy stock and it is
to be hoped tha; The time is near al
hand when the several daiymen will be
able to shut out the Importation OF in
ierior material, and supply home con
sumption at favorable figures. But &c
do this successfully calls for systematic
care and economy. The heavy out
lay also made for hay and grain eacf
year (of which much is used for thi:
imported stock must be turned 10 farm
development. If wheat or oat hay can
no, be grown satisfactorily on proper
land, probably alfalfa might be sowr
down and when once well rooted
will give rotation OF crop every 81,
weeks, than which there is nothing
better for mich COWS, and cured, give.
the best OF winter feed. Woodlawr
Dairy has an acre field OF alfalfa that i:
moved gradually each day as i, is re
quired for the stock and saves them
annually, probably $4,000 expenditure
for imported feed.
And when imported feed is men
toned, there are but few who realize
our expenses in feeding our animals
The hay imports tor 1884 were as,I6i
bales, valued at S4o,77o. oats
i,o,5,69, pounds, value S3I,o5s
barley and barley meal, $3.50, s6S
pounds, value $751; bran, 4,o79,Isc
pounds, value S55,S7I; wheat, 346,49c
pounds, value So,rs6, making a to,a
tax for feed, last year, of $I9s,s+6, ant
this differs but little from the impor
values OF 1884,