The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-07

of years become invaluable as an index
to and a reflex of conditions present and
past and a guide for legislation in the
| future.
We find off-hand expressions in the
report under review on the experiences
of Mr.. Long in the cultivation of veg.
etables and small fruits. Also para
graph on the castor bean cultivation by
Mr.. Koelling. which as indicating the
general character of the report We will
quote IN full:
AT Kaneohe, over the Pail, Mr.. c.
Koelling has castor bean plantation,
and a mill fitted up with the best of ma
chinery and is very busy manufacture
ing castor oil, said to be very good
article
We append to this report a copy of
communication sent the Committee on
Taxation by this very man; it speaks for
itself
What would interest your committee
would be tables. covering possibly the
following points: Primarily, the amount
paid for the land Oh the rent paid by
Mr. Koelling, as compared with the same
expenditures in adjoining lands; next the
amount of taxes as compared with adj
jacent territory; the cost of clearing per
acre: the cost of planting, of cultivation
and of harvesting; the cost of the plant
necessary to the proper expression of
OIL number of gallons produced per
day: cost CT production, of containers.
of marketing and so forth, and finally
the price realized. These as expenditures
and realzations should go with the full
information as to the length of season
between the planting and harvesting,
the amount .. beans per acre by weight
and the number of gallons of oil produc
ed per ton of beans. Information cover
ing the various operations as above we
submit would be of great interest to all
residents of the Territory and of special
advantage to those desiring to engage
in a similar business and as such would
form a valuable basis for <the future.
when there would be further tables of
like import
Your committee quotes from a report
by the Minister of the Interior to the
Legislature of 1890 under sub-head
Compilation and Publication of Sta
tistcs," as follows:
ANY person who attempts any stalls
teal work of this kind. or to draw con-
illusions from statistics. which he may
obtain. Immediately finds that there is a
most lamentable lack of material and
systematic arrangement" Statistics are
frequently invaluable. in deciding public
policy and directing course of action
vitality affecting the public welfare, as,
FOR example. statistics affecting the Chi
-5ese question: concerning the number
4 compensation of laborers; concern
sng immigration. education, health.
biz rs and deaths, taxes. and twenty
othez different things; concerning which
aecul e information is either not OBJ
tl.nab.s at all or is available only after
laboricl and extended preceding search
Almost every nation and colony now
keeps "a publishes statistics, and I rec
omrlena that a Bureau of Statistics be
established here and that a reasonable
appropriation be made to initiate the
work, to all of which your committee,
eleven years ago. says a hearty amen.
Btt why was this work not undertaken
at that time? The truth is the planting
interests of this country do not want
such statistics Figures do not lie and
the correct statistics, if comparatively
portray the conditions of the country,
would long ago have revolutionized the
conditions which still confront US today.
To proceed with our criticism of the
matter under review.
The report is taken up in part by sub
reports from the Forestry Department.
from DR. Maxwell on lands adjacent to
Hilo, and from the entomologist. Your
committee is constrained to the view
that as Bureau the Agriculture and