The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-21
SOME OTHER
BY-PRODUCTS
Money in Grow.
ing Lines for
Market.

| 1.-THE pineapple is the thing for the
small farmer" said William Hoogs, OF
Fthe Mahaka Coffee Company to an
Advertiser man yesterday. IT don't
know about the other islands, but on
Oahu there is a field for small farmers.
And there is more in the raising of
pfneapples than anything else. There
is any quantity of land available for the
purpose, land on the highlands, where
there are no pests to bother and where
the pines ripen two months earlier
than they do anywhere else. We have
so, 900 plants on our place near Waianae,
and last year we had pineapples in
October when nobody else had them
until December. A market! Well, these
fellows pretty nearly drove us crazy 10
get them. No use in talking, the pine
apple is the thing for the small farmer.
yes; we are doing something up
there in the way of raising lines. Five
years ago we saw that it was necessary
to branch out from the coffee business.
had made something of a study of the
demand for lines and we determined to
go into that. Lines are worth in San
Francisco, usually, one dollar a hum
bred. We can put them down at fifty
cents and make a profit, and we can
put in a green lime, which gives the
best flavor, and SO commands the high
est price. You can get nothing but
ripe lines on the Coast now, and they
all come from Mexico. They are in con-
slant demand. There is a class of trade
that takes the lime in preference to the
lemon. that must have it. More than
that, we will have a demand for the
fruit from the steamers that pass here.
They all want lines, all the time.
I'VE expect to get a fair crop from
our twelve acres, this year. Next year
we will get an enormous crop. The
lime tree bears all the time. There are
flowers, green fruit and ripe fruit on
the same tree, once it gets to work, and
the tree will produce from 200 to 1000
in the season. We are the first in the
field here. To be sure, few lines are
grown on Maui. but it does not make
a great deal of difference. The market
for lines is one that can never be over
stocked. No; it is not necessary to
irrigate the trees. There is plenty of
rain in the hills, where we are, and
lots of land to be had as good as ours
There are no pests to attack the
trees, either. We had cut-worms in our
at first, but we killed them
by putting liberal supply of printers
ink on rags and wrapping these rags
about the stems. Another instance of
the power of the press, chi
Let me tell you, if you are interested
in the by-products of the Islands, that
there is money in raising alligator
pears, which are always in demand. and
there is money in the growing of the
papaia. This tree bears in less than
year, from the seed. Every body that |
eats it likes it, and the passenger
steamers passing Honolulu would jump |
at large qualities of it offered for sale |
They want it to give their passengers !
a taste of the fruits of the tropics. The |
home market can never be supplied |
with enough of it--or never has been |
yet. The raisers of papaias find all they
can offer taken, and more called for. !
We have instructed our man at the |
plantation to plant all the seeds that |
he can get, and we think it will be |
a big thing. Even if we lose % per |
cent of those we ship from there to
Honolulu, there will be a handsome |
margin of profit