The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-11-12
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IA, 1886
SOME POSSIBLE PRODUCTS.

An observation extending but few
years back will convince anybody with
out statistics that there has been an
enormous growth in the preserving Of
food, condiments and table luxuries
The work is conducted on such large
scale, and is done so well, that house
keepers, in cities where fruits in their
season are cheap, can better afford to
buy the very same fruits prepared in
the factories than they can procure the
fresh article and put it up for them
selves. Then the method of preserv-
ing food fresh in hermetically sealed
vessels has revolutionized the supplying
OF armies, navies, the merchant marine,
mining camps, exploring and survey
ing expeditions, and hotels and board
in3 houses. The soldier has not to
rely any more upon foragng expedi-
tiens,nor the sailor on long voyage to
be constantly mensced with scurvy
from a prolonged diet of "salt horse
Moreover, the development of this
+ vast industry has caused many articles
good for food, which formerly were
allowed to 60 to waste in their wild
luxuriance or teeming abundance, to be
utilized for the benefit of the race,
There is probably nothing in which
this country could compete with other
counties on more favorable terms than
this great modern development Of the
food preserving industry. The term
development" is used because the
art is not modern one, the investiga
tions of archeologists revealing the
f.ct that the process of hermetically
scaling the fruits of the earth, to pre-
serve them in fresh state, was known
to the ancients. This soil and climate
produce fruits that, kept in fresh state
or made into extracts, jellies, cooked
preserves or pickles, would be esteemed
and in demand in other zones in pro
p rtion to the extent to which they
were introduced.
Besides fruit that actually grows wild
in great abundance, such as the gusva
great variety of fruits has been proved
capable of cultivation here. In the
cases of some species, it has also been
discovered that the fruit of exotics i'm
proves in development and flavor in
this country. What may be accom-
plishcd in the way Of fruit raising may
to some extent be ascertained by the
results obtained by Mr.. Jaeger, super
intendent of the Government nursery,
on his own premises This gentleman
is never from one end Of the year to
the other, without a supply of luscious
fruit Of one kind or another ripe to his
hand in his private garden That is on
land that only few years ago was an
arid waste. Only the other day this
paper noted the production of we'll
developed Bartlett pear by Mr. H. R.
Macfarlane, tending to show that GER
tainfruitsupposedto thrive only in cooler
climes may be successfully raised here.
However, there is no doubt about an
almost numberless variety Of fruits
being adapted or adaptable to this sub
tropical group. An immense exporta-
ton. of preserved fruit, as we'll as of
fruit capable of being placed in com
paratively near markets in its original
freshness, ought to be developed in a
very short time. What is needed is
intelligent experimentation, assiduous
application and public spirited cooper
alton on the part of all who are in a
position to promote the very promising
enterprise.
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