The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-12

MA which welcomed the Rel
san mare as cheap and Wholesome
"uuition TO its food supply. or as tha
means Oh an agreeable fad. Is hesin-
s 10 rear that she has imported !.
nuisance. Witness this comment IN tho
Argonaut: IN the
upon the fact that fecu,dt.,
nruhs point of the hare was Ia seS me me
,ho op rs printed three weeks ago. that
import would lead to disast.r oeigiah
hare might be good thing. hut too ,, nutie
ina s,;n edaiamlty; and it is not easily to he
lousy urged. can keep m appetite gftt sedu
c'ease when rabbitry Is getting 70 IL IL
ioeai institution more common than ~
haDitaI OF the domestic hen. ''ie
AZ riorin, place in which the totap
grape has been brought to an uneUar;y
pied perfection, and where the most ms
cIous strawberries are raised, fruit-grow-
ers look into the future with concern ana
fancy they see the time when "Reminiscences
viii De necessary for preservation of their
vines. A local mathematician has fig1Ired
Vut from the rate of increase attained by
the first few Belgian hares purchased nv
an enthusiast what is going to happen
mere. THESE hares number, or did last
week 81: The man of figures calculates
mat py May, 1901, they will have multi
pied to 36l,32O. and in this calculation
reckons upon only 40 per cent being does
When that happy time shall arrive each
man. woman. and child of F'Iorin would
Dy an equable division have 4.0OG hares
rms Is apparently several more than nee
essary. The market could not consume
them all, for 1t is to be remembered that
every hamlet and city is going into the
business, generally on a more elaborate
scale than is being attempted at Florin.
nope mas been expressed that the pas-
sion e,, VIII subside, but even if it should, it
viii leave behind countless thousands or
millions OF hares, homeless and hungry
warning on vegetation, and being warred
against by the suffering tiller of the soil
That the hares would flourish IL turned
loose has been demonstrated, for one dis
gusted ex-enthusiast liberated his accu-
mutation of thirty-odd. and some of
these. being captured later, were found to
be sleek, and In fine condition 1t is
argued that a demand will be created for
the flesh of the hare, but there is as vet
no sign Of 1T. The meat does not appeal
There Is about the living creature a feline
suggestion that tends to dull the edge of
appetite. There is no particular reason
either for supposing that the skins can
be utilized, for the cottontail and the
Jack, cousins of the Belgian, do not yield
one decent pelt in a hundred. Sad to
state. the pelt Is apt to be so diseased
as to be worthless, and to excite preju-
dice against the tissues It covers.
California could have got along very
well In the absence of the Belgian hare.
The animal was not introduced for the
filing of a want. 1t came as n fad pure
iy, Will De SuSldliltu DIS SUN lOi tilHt
and, in all probability, degenerate into a
pest, a candidate for determination.
A strong effort is being made to in
troduce the Belgian hare locally and we
presume that, under United States law,
the animal cannot be kept out. How
ever this Territory may impose so
heavy a license upon the sale of hares
as to make the business Improbable.
of the kind should be done
for the protection Of cane fields.