The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-10
SUCCESSFUL
As A FARMER
F. BuchoItz Of
Kona Visiting
in City.
WILL MARKET
CROPS HERE
Raises Everything on His Farm
That Can be Grown
Anywhere.

Franz Bucholtz, the well known
farmer whose plantation at Kona, Ha-
wall, is the pride of the Islands. is in
at the offices of the agricultural ex-
pertinent station and commissioner Of
agriculture yesterday. He talked en-
Enthusiastically of the success of small
farming on a large scale, and is con-
WINGED that not only can almost any
crop be successfully cultivated in the
/ Islands, but at a profit as well. He
! has but lately formed this opinion of
the success of small farming as a
financial venture, but his farm iFKona
IS a growing example OF agricultural!
success in Hawaii. The chief difficulty
which confrouts the small farmer in
Hawaii, is the expense Of marketing his
crop, and this is attributed by Mr..
Bucholtz to the middlemen in Homo
lulu, as well as to exorbitant freight
charges. Since his visit to Honolulu
this time, Mr.. Bucholtz has been mora
successful, and stated yesterday that
he had secured the services of a mid
dleman who would handle the products
of his farm; which would allow him
some profit.
The Honolulu middleman wants to
get rich all at once" said Mr.. Bucholtz
yesterday They are not satisfied
with profit of 20 per cent, but it must
be 200 per cent. Then they fear the
coming of homegrown products to this
market. It is liable to reduce the cost
to the consumer and that means
smaller profits for the middle man
again. The freight rates, too, are
high but I have made arrangements
for the handling of some of the pro-
duce in Honolulu now, and it will pay
a small profit. AS it is, l raise only
things for my own use, and as l am
by myself, it doesn't take much to
supply the demand. 1 have about go
acres, and 400 more under lease.
Everything grows well in our dis
trict, and there appears to be no limit
TO the crops that can be raised. Cab
baee. celery and caulif1ower can be
picked all the year around. The celery
is of the finest quality. 1t may re-
main in the ground a year or more,
and that doesn't appear to affect its
quality in the slightest. CAB
bage the same way; it may be
planted in summer, winter. fail
or spring and grows to enor-
nous size-two feet in diameter,
and has the quality to RATION. Po-
tatoes, the same way; I have planted
them four times in succession on the
same piece of ground, and they cost
but half a cent a pound.
''Artichokes. parsley. parsnips' car
rots and red beets grow the year
round. and lima beans have to be
gathered every week. Cucumbers, tur-
nips and tomatoes are all growing on
my farm, and are doing hneiy. Inc
melon was first attacked by the melon
fly. but it doesn't grow well at my
elevation. Peas do not pay, though
thew grow readily. However. they
must be picked right away, as they
ripen too quickly, sometimes in SIX
weeks.
"Somes more of the things that may
be grown here? I guess pretty near
everything that grows anywhere, can
b.. successfully grown in kona- Be
sides the things / have mentioned,
have growing, corn, onions, radishes'
leeks. elephants, lettuce, peppers
suuashes, pumpkins, Strawberries
raspberries, gooseberries, currants, ap-
piles. pears, almonds, walnuts, olives
prunes, cherries, peaches, aprlcots'
oranges, lines, alligator pears, grapes
figs, pineapples, dill. lavender, marjor-
am. sage, thyme, peppermint, man
goes, papaias, wheat, barley. corn, al
falfa. oats, blue grass. in fact, every
thing can be grown there, and is grow
ing on my farm now.
Onions grow to thickness Of three