The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-04-01

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Natlon as "a Sample Of shat mHst home
strHurrs have uufrrrauU.
Thr fret refer io was "a Portuguese.
Industrious and ambitious to oNn 81
home. lio built a nice cottage Cor bic
family. cleared and fenced a part of his
DOT. set coffee. some fruit trees and
grape vines, planted corn ANA POTATOES
aud garden. but nothing seemed 20
flourish and having O. work on a plan
tstion 81 support has family DE decided
De Was living too far from his work
and no prospect % making "a living on
bis lot with his wife and children TO
help. 50 after few years trial he sold
out the only home he ever had and
moved back 10 the plantation.
The next adjoining homesteader was
an American. who built a small house.
cleared all the land and set II with cof-
fee. and "A few lemon. lime. fg, orange
and peach trees. While the trees were
growing, corn. potatoes. and SOME 9TH
er truck were planted between the rows
Of trees. hoping by So doing TO pay by
the sale of the product at least a part
OF the expense OF cultiyating and keep
ing the weeds down while the trees
were coming into bearing. But the corn
and truck would not grow; worms.
bugs. etc, preventing. The whole
homestead was fenced and cypress trees
set on one side as a windbreak. and on
the other side, along the government
road, they were set as an ornament.
They have done well, and are ornamen-
tai all round the lot. The coffee fruited
and for three years yielded fair crop.
enough 10 pay for picking md the year
ly care of the place; but the price of
the coffee was disappointing. The past
three years the coffee has not yielded
enough to pay for picking. and each
Of the three years it's yield has been
less and less. until the coffee has be-
come yalueless. So the owner. after
ten years experience and direct loss
of $500 In money, has now rented it for
the cultivation Of cane. The fine, prof
liable and ornamental home that was
aimed at is now cane field.
The next homestead adjoining the
above was also taken by an American
farmer and he proceeded to develop IL
by clearing and fencing 1t and setting
coffee trees, planting corn, melons and
garden truck, the same as the second
homesteader above referred to had
done. But nothing fourished that he
planted. His coffee being injured by
worms, never yielded enough to pay for
picking more than two years, and his
labor Of setting and caring for 1t was
all lost. and In short time the coffee
failed entirely. The owner, not wishing
to risk any more labor or money on the
hopeless outlook OF cultivating his
homested. rented ii to a man to raise
chickens
This renter expected to raise corn for
chicken feed He worked hard prepar-
ing the land and planted a few acres.
The corn grew and looked well until
1t commenced to silk, when it was at
tackled by a small fly. which increased
SO rapidly that IL soon extracted all the
virtue out Of the stalks and they died.
There was no corn. This ended the
chicken project on that homestead
The protector lost his years labor and
the rent of the place. which he paid in
advance. The owner of this homestead
now had the blues. He could not rent
1t and the labor and money he had
wasted on the place convinced him that
any further attempt at farming IL
would be failure. So he wisely con-
cluded to sell out, which he did, and
then took up another homestead some
miles away, which he believed was bet
ter land, but thus far he has been no
more successful than on his first place
The past few years he has wasted both
labor and money upon it, with but
small returns.
One more reference: An intelligent.
ambitious, hard working American
farmer with a family secured "a home
stead near ten years ago. In his mind S
eye he saw pleasant and profitable
American home. He was quite sure he
could make that fancied home a reali-
~ by his labor and the profits of 20
acre fruit orchard, which he commence
ed by sending to California for fruit
trees, consisting OF apple. pear, peach,
apricot. orange. lemon and olive of va
rious kinds of each; also coffee, al
monds, walnuts, strawberry, blackberry
and raspberry, and all kinds of the
most improved varieties of garden
seeds, including watermelon and musk
melon seed.
The first year he was successful in
building a small house, fencing his
land, receiving and setting his trees
and berry bushes he had ordered. He
also received the garden seed, and rails
ed peas, beans, cabbage, beets, carrots,
radish, Strawberries and other garden
truck, and melons enough to supply the
neighborhood. His trees made an en-
couraging growth, and he, being ambi-
tous, did not relish being confined to
20 acres OF land, so he bought another
homestead near by, and built a nice,
roomy residence upon it. He was now
quite well fixed. so himself and others
thought, having one lot as a coffee
grove and fruit orchard and the other
for residence, vegetables, berries and
general farming. But alas, as theories
often lead to serious disappointments,
so ii did in this case. After the first
year melons could not be grown. The
yield of the garden and berries lessened