The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-02-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

| ANSWtR ~ QUcSIIONS.
Sumter has published the following questions which asks
T. Can an american farmer do as Hawaii as in Cali
fonia"
sell milk butter, poultry hogs and eggs for
than they will bring California raise all his vegetables and most Of
his growing special products which will
pay average special farm products of California do today
That pneappe better than lemons
prices @ is better than wheat vanilla beans are better than rasn
grapes hggrade bananas better than zinandel grapes
If he decided here is not true that the cost Of
ing together great expense of finding and getting located
piece Chat there suitable land be had)
would not be sufficient to buy small farm at home where good v
ing could be made for himself and family
dental getting located would suffice for buying small farm
home Any change distant parts costs money but millions of
dion As to suitable land inquiry the
study of the statistical which he took to Washington
ago. will anybody that point There
$4,000 of unoccuped public land Oahu alone the OF
which will s chickens hogs and certain other products Even
precisely like those of Italy have produced excellent olives The
as regards SOIL rainfall general prospects they there
than people would be who settled the forbddng tracts in
IF he finding suitable of land will he be
satisfied with the conditions residence and cultivation imposed
by the Government covering period of before the land
The conditions are practically the same as regards time of ocupa
and keep the farms of the hands of specua
What land the farmer who will crops
the specuaor who will raise nothing but the Nor
advisable give graers the chance gobb all the land
will he require much capital to enable him tide the
Vanilla and kindred products or will Vegetables that he grow
support him and family and repay him. for the expense
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build buy tools stock groceries, clothing plants
cuttings for his special products cannot be had for nothing The
fairly weodo farmer who wants to do better is the for Hawaii
s. Can the American farmer successfully sell vegetables
or will he be in competition with Asaes Poruguse And will
he not lose caste if he farming in f4awan?'
There is man living far up the Manoa valley who is successfully
product If there enough white the business main
sales depot and send middle
vegetables should be good But we do not advocate small farming
Of this kind business merely as help to livelihood while export
mend small farming of breaking into society 1t not
an occupation for leaders OF the german but for plain working Ame
Lincoln and other good
IF he is exceptional and successfully passes through
the probationary period will he continue do all the farm work him
SELF will he like the Planters employ Asac labor to help
him out y
Farmers like other their labor cfeapy they
Probably they would employ Aatcs but farms do need
if he has any can do great deal for themselves The wr' has
T. rs that his children will have mix with inferior
races WIN not the children mternarry WITH and his descendants
have the blood of Asia in their veins?'
There little inenarrage here between whites and Asiatss
in the wider and the available will be the social conditions
and opportunities Of white men This paper is not working to put
suitable tracts where white people will settle producing communities
will take ITSELF just as it did when the American pioneers set
tied among the Indians and among the MNeans OF the far southwest
their farming operations Did they all leave for the profit
As rule the old residents like farmers elsewhere went into the
particular But the sugar mostly the product
in This paper arguing for the small farmer plantation
magna pointing holds that
Hawaii have general prosperity after the bonanza days of
sugar have gone for good will have to develop all its resources and
States and Territories
o "Wafiawa Colony it be duplicated? Would
have been for the they developed and sold
the Waialua Pantaton?"
Wahiawa colony is success because white men went there and
applied themselves with industry and good judgment
hand When they required they got
might these Islands high abundant
need OF irrigation much less severely felt here
Finally every objection made to small farming in Hawaii has