The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-05
NEED SMALL
INDUSTRIES
Allan Herbert on
What Can Be
Done.
Opportunities Many in
Agricultural
Field.
Silk, Tobacco, Oysters and Lichee
Nuts a Few Of Possible
Sources of ProGit.


There is plenty of opportunity IL
Hawaii for the man who wants to en-
gage in small farming or rather who
would devote his time to agricultural
specia1ities.p said Allan Herbert who
has himself demonstrated the truth OF
this statement to an Advertiser re-
: porter yesterday.
There is the lichee. for instance
which can be made a source of great
profit here, as have myself succeed
ed in doing. 1t is one of the most i'm
portant ana valuable fruit trees OF
China India and Malay and that it
can be grown in the islands, success
fully. has been demonstrated by Mrs.
All Fsong in Nuuanu valley and by
others.
tnre is yIang-ylang culture: the vine
grows in these islands as readily and
with as little care as our own beauti-
ful hardy hibiscus. The oil from this
extraordinarily fragrant flower is OBJ
tanned by a very simple process and it
sells readily for from fifty to sixty
dollars per pound. Seventy to eighty
pounds of flowers produce a pound of
oil. Manufacturers in London and
Paris use the oil as the basic essence
of the most valuable perfumes. The
essence obtained from the vine is COM
ing in commercial competition with
altar Of roses.
Fruit trees of warm countries, 9TH
er than these now grown here, could be
successfully introspced If we would
adopt the art of culture as practiced
in Florida and California.
1.-THE silk industry has never been
properly tried. The growing of the
mulberry tree and the feeding of the
silk-worrn from its foliage can both
be made successful What an industry
this could be made at the Kamehame-
ha Girls School. The land about the
school, towards the sea, is well adapted
for the cultivation Of the mulberry
tree. I suggested this industry to the
trustees of the Bishop Estate some
yEcNfS ago d1lO O1ltfCQ MY SGiNlCCS- IICC
to the girls at the school. Once proper
iy instructed they could carry their
knowledge to their homes when they
return aid
INBIA RUBBER.
The India rubber tree propAgates it,
self here by seed or cutting. It will
grow luxuriantly in the mountains-a
rrrf1f S.soo Mo tod he Uai1 q
mountains some years ago is now
eighteen or twenty feet high. Milk
exudes freely and ball as large as an
ordinary marble was made from it. The
banana is another plant not properly
appreciated for there is no fruit that
affords quicker returns.
There is no plant that will produce /
so much delicious fruit to the acre as
the papaia, which was introduced here |
in 1872 by the Rev. Ernest r. Gribble |
of the Aboriginal mission IN Queens |
land. He sent over lot OF the seed, I
and today papaias can be picked in .
any part of Hawaii.
OYSTER FARMING.
Oyster farming is another business
which 1 would recommend as one OF T
great profit and possibilities. An oys- I
ter is as subject to Improvement by |
cultivation as a vegetable 1t is an
Industry too which can be successful
" carried on, on small scale and with +
little capital, in shallow water near
shore. The whole secret of oyster cuI-
ture is the furnishing of proper bodies
on the bottom for the attachment of the
young. BY planting seed oysters up
on bottoms which are helpful to their
growth. the conditions are made more
favorable for a larger numbeS to reach
maturity, as under natural conditions
the young oysters fasten themselves
so close together that the growth of
one involves the crowdfng out and de-
struction of hundreds of others. AT
Pearl FIarbor today there are mum
Der of natural oyster beds, and hun
dreds of tons OF empty shells. The
oysters were no doubt packed so close
Iy together that they could not lie fat,
but grew vertically side by side. This
prevented the oysters from opening
their shells and crowded out and ex-
oysters had fastened itself
to the free end of a dead shell. and
today you can find a pile OF five or six
shells thus united. The history of the
oyster beds of all countries is the
story of their deterioration and de-
struction. Consul Canavarro Of Por-
Eugal tells US that in his country today ,
the oyster interest is one of the most
important industries and gives employ
ment to thousands of persons, ana
millions of dollars of capital are in
vested therein Oysters are swimming !.
and they are discharged into
he water in countless numbers. to be :