The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-14
The GARDEN
OF NAKAO
DR.. Carter Makes The
Land To Bloom.
FAIR SCENE NEAR KARUKU
Scientific Far ming Methods Many
Uses of Papaia--T abasco
Sue.

slice-of-pie shaped Plantation called Ma
kao. 1t Is not sugar plantation owned
by a corporation but a private concern
owned and managed by man. DIR. Al
bert b. Carter. and a place that is full
of absorbing interest to the chance visit
or who is fortunate enough to find time
to journey round this beautiful and at
tract.ve Isle.
/ Dr. Carter has retired from active |
practice as a physician and occupies /
/ nearly all of his time in practical scien- |
/ tihc agriculture and systematic research |
The doctor is a deep thinker and man /
of extraordinary energy, is enthus.- |
astic bacteriologlst and microscopic anl |
an earnest student Of nature and lover
! Of outdoor life.
On his little plantation-it consists al |
together of some five or six hundred acre /
of good, fertile land-the doctor raises al
most everything imag nable and not only
does he assist nature to produce great
varieties Of fruits and vegetables, but he
also converts many of these things t.
uses which one would not ordinarily sus-
pect on a private farm.
Hundreds of healthy young lime trees
flourish on the slopes of the hills, and
scattered here and there at regular in
tervals over the whole plantation. To-
matoes, the finest in point of size and
delicacy of flavor of any produced in this
country, are grown there. Beans are al
ways in season and plentiful. while al
the ordinary kitchen garden truck and
! some extraordinary flourish under the
scientific eyes of the Industrious doctor.
But DIR. Carter is not satisfied simply
D with watching cabbages grow or with
making tomato vine bear twice as much
fruit as IL feels inclined to. He is for
4 ever seeking ways and means to turn ev'
erything that grows on his place, permit
ted or unpermitted. to some specific ac-
% count.
. His hills boast abundant guava bushes
o at their feet. The vast amount Aof this
y delightful fruit which the doctors chill
dren do not eat is converted into tempt
: ing jelly, while those which fall upon the
ground make fine food for the pigs.
Then there are few small forests OF
papaias In Makao. There are enough pa
y paias grown in Makao to supply Homo
= lulu steadily. This refreshing fruit oil
vegetable is eaten as melon. boiled as
a squash. cooked into pies, fried into frit
tiers, stewed into jam or preserved a
sweet or sour pickles. What the doctors
\ family cannot devour proves a most fat
tening food for the porkers. The papaia
a: tree" Is certainly a wonderful instItu
ticn The fruit is a natural digestant
being generously charged with peptt
a-trs in ne
branches, stalks and leaves, are full o
lpepstn. DR.. Garter Is in the habit o
u hanging the family meat in "A papaia tres
JNer night so tnat when 1t cCmes TO th'
table the smallest of the Carter family
u can chew ii as easily as the doctor ca
himself.
a. The leaves of the papaia are carefully
cut from the trees In Makao and huhs
y. up to dry. The dried leaves wheI
ID powdered become most powerful an'
useful culinary luxury. A teaspoonfu
- smeared on the toughest boardinghouS'
beefsteak will make 1t as tender as
genuine spring chicken. In fact, 1t Il
even reported that DIR. Carter will no
allow his dogs to sleep beneath the pa
u paias. as the peptic influences are ap
q, TO soften their muscles. But this lat
ter rumor is probably slightly exagger
NJ ated.
Then there are peppers grown whole
W. sale in Makao-hotter than are grow
anywhere else. The doctor has all tn
wv facilities on his place for manufactur
ing tabasco sauce, and he does 1t, toe
on big scale. The Hawaiians call
"Vela Mea," which. being interprete
means Hot Stuff" and it lives up to il
'or name. None of the doctor s friends ar
without a bottle of his tabasco. Tn
hear of il through one source or anothe
and straightway visit the doctor an
}, carry away as souvenir Specime
IL bottle of his ''Vela Nlea,
Is The windward side of Oahu Is tn
- home of countless kukui trees, and tn
doctor encourages all who desire {
-, turn an honest dollar to collect for hin
AZ the kukui nuts. These he brushes, hay
o. ing the proper machinery at hand, gel
ting the finest anu pureSt kinu of kukl
oil, whose value and usefulness is t.
well known to eXpatiate upon her
Among other things the doctor mani
features tomato catsup, and will 500
MY put up lime juice and a dozen othe
me things of great usefulness.
Chinese buffaloes have found an al
,u- preciative owner in DR.. Carter. He Ia
20 several fine specimens of this breed
IN cattle. and declares that they are
~ every way superior to the ''haole" COY
They give more milk, are less expensiS
to keep, are not as liable to disease ar
are just as easily domesticated. Whe
~ the doctor clears new piece of groun
-, and rids ii of the hau trees and stump
&c he converts their branches and trunl
IN into charcoal and uses the stumps
rta build dams. He Is one of those II
"a ventive geniuses who never rest excel
,ol- they are busily engaged in improvir
rn or discovering something.
CHI Makao is one of the prettiest plac,
[iss on the whole Island, and Is situate
Iiss about seven miles from Kahuku, IL
c. emo of the railway line. The doctor
len famed for his hospitality and ente
AL prise from Kahuku to Makapuu, ar
ch. justly so, for he has done much to el
Iiss courage practical interest among Il
8. natives on the other side of the Islam
Oft, and is ever ready to supply them n
leo only with seeds of knowledge, but wi
eel cabbage seeds and turnip seeds and t
1ge mato seeds, and so forth. 1t is the do
w tors idea that the Hawaiian ISLAM
w are perfectly capable of producing
ing the fruit and vegetables required by t
res entire population and hive enough
export besides. This would not in al
Ho- wav interfere with he sugar busine
Of Hawaii, and would be great bene
ity. all round.