The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-03-14
COTTON.

Walter NJ Gard, in the Hawaiian Forester Agcuuras
advocates experiments with He points that
Cotton has been grown Eva and parts and
lent article produced The Department Agriculture guam
uted to various people Whether any general report made it,
the department the writer know specimens
which very satisfactory Mr. Giard idea experiment upon
more extended scale and put enough cotton produce market
able quantity This what the Germans did in their African colonies
They planted enough send bales market and the sale
OF these they based their calculations for large crop
The growth OF the trouble it the labor cond
tons Cotton needs large amount OF labor for limited time The
rest OF the be managed with little labor We have
aon upon which draw for such class of labor In the Ger
African colonies such labor be obtained the East Indies
be obtained and Egypt ready hand In the Southern
States also ready at hand 1t suits negro to
tied period and then back his little holding and potter round for
a while.
Unless weevl can American crop
bound be shorter and shorter every and the establishment Of
the industry help the boil weevl could only kept
out There is however omnous paragraph letter from the
agricultural department. which samples Hawaiian grown
referred 1t says Some of the samples show boil STAIN If we
have the boil Weev here goodbye hopes cotton
industry However this might be by destroying all
specimens OF which may be growing the islands, and
making fresh start with unaned seed 1t ought not to be difficult
to destroy the small quantity Of cotton the islands.
Three OF the European countries have colonial growing
caons with considerable capital which nave been making experiments
with growing, and from them learn something In the
first place experiments scale which any tangible
results are costly they require money NO man gong to make such
experiments by himself We need therefore Hawaiian grow
ing association, which will be position expend money, hire
expert cotton growers and 10 put up the necessary buildings Inc
British who have been experimenting the province Lagos west
Africa for years. brought their first sample shipment London
the month OF anua 1t amounted to thirty tons and proved to be an
excellent staple the best American upland 1t had
established showed
that the dependence upon American could be
severed
The Germans have been for about the time and
have reached similar results In report upon these results the German
Colonial Society that realizes that will require than
genial climate fertile soil make African growing
large scale profitable Time capital improved methods
cheap aCtabe labor the the problem
tal ready skill and provided
10 obtain the latter arrangements through the
German consul at Galveston send and educate agricultural
schools and plantations Texas number OF young Germans who
before going sign spend given number Of years super
nenden Of plantations in the German American colonies Besides
this the German Colonial Society has engaged expert American
ton travel the colonies and report upon the the
soil suited for this branch of agriculture
10 establish industry we'll both and required
We learn great deal about starting industry
work done by Germany, England and France.