Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-12-01
SMALL FARM PROMOTION.


Americans are natural emigrants or
perhaps II would read better to say
pioneers.
II there were real honesty in the
alleged small farmer movement in Ha.
wall. II IL were anything more than q
dodge to be constantly talking about
something and doing nothing. there
would he no difficulty In securing small
farmers or welltu.do agriculturists to
take up homesteads in the Islands.
One of the proofs of local goodwill in
the movement would also be such re.
vision OF the land law as will make II
possible for the man to get land before
the next century and at a fair price.
Nothing proves better the readiness
Of the American farmer to go into a
new field. to emigrate. than the flow Of
immigration that is going on from the
Middle West to Northwest Canada.
Here is a new wheat country which
has attracted as many Americans as
British. and one of the requirements
of holding land Is that the immigrant
shall within "A given period take the
oath to the British Crown.
The Canadian correspondent Of the
! London Times has written descrip.
ton of this immigration which dis.
proves every claim advanced 50 often
in Hawaii, that there is 50 much
land in the States that the people
Iwill not think OF going outside ma.
| tiOnal mainland boundaries. that the
I pioneer spirit Is thing Of the past,
| that the men who have settled the
! West. having established themselves
and made their pile. will not move.
This correspondent saw the immi.
grants on the trains and made a very
thorough canvass OF the flow of popu
lation from the United States across
the border. He found whole colonies
moving by trainlOads. Americans oi
the second or third generation. not the
newly naturalized individual or the
lonesome Spectator. The mass OF
these men," says the writer. Gown
farms in one or another OF the States
above mentioned" Iof the Middl,
Vest which We're bought at prairi,
value or hOmestraded In the seventies
or early eighties and are now worth
$40, to SIS. an acrc.-improved. we'll
cultivated farms accessible to towns
and railroads"
Doubtless some one in Hawaii will
say this doesn't mean anything. d
gIA,4F't la, thn4n "a hn nj "a talk
ing small farm just to hear themselves
talk. and never intend to do anything
more than talk. II they can help them
selves. Americans are still ready L
move though the fields of the Middle
West be- ever so fruitful and the flow
ers OF the Coast equally attractive.
The correspondent asked himsel
why these wellto-dO farmers move
and after inquiry answered II In thi
wise: The answer Is simple enough
as regards certain number vi sucl
namely. those who have son
in that the old farm provides onl
for one. while for the rest of the fan
lily there Is no local opening on tn
land whatever. except in the purchase
at high price. of a ncighbOring farI
which has presumably approached Q
reached its limit of value: but tn
Iowa or Dakota farmer. blessed wit
sons and looking prudently into the ~
turc. reflects that with the money d.
rived from the sale Of his farm he ca
acquire enough virgin land to settl
all his family in life and have abunC
ant capital left to build and to bu
stock with"
In going through the carloads of In
, migrants he found that most Of theI
seem to have from 10000. to SIS .QO0.-
some much more. This goes to sho'
that the farmer with money to inves
, is by no means an unknown quantity.
. The methods by which this immigrt
tion Is worked also contain a fund {
practical information for the men
: Hawaii who really want American In
: migrants in Hawaii These, by Ii
p way, are not the men talking the lou
;, est about 1t. The detail Is given G
follows:
, Nearly all of II is controlled an
!, moved by land companies founded Il