Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-11
WHAT BLAC0W DID IN
SMALL FARM EFFORT
Continued from Page 81

NSOItNluSu IIoHi ' aye 81
growing section, purchasing the coffee
in the cherry and paying fair mar.
ket price for the. same, and il is only
on these lines that Hawaiian coffee
will ever amount to much here or else
where. No small farmer has the
means or appliances to handle his own
crop to the best advantage Now in.
stead of a good quality and a large
uniform quantity, there are scores of
grades, sour black and brown, in fact
anything that looks like coffee.
Can such an article command good
price where 1t is not known?
Whereas by q central factory all
would be the same quality and grade
and what il the most desirable of all,
q large quantity of few grades, and
such can only be obtained by handling
large quantities of cherries, therefore
we need crossroads TO reach a central
| factory or mill The Messrs. Louissons
will take all coffee produced here and
ray fair price for the same, but out.
side of their immediate vicinity the
cost of getting cherry coffee to their
mill is more than 1t would bring.
Coffee at 81. Ton.
My own coffee that | have left,
! amounting TO about tons of cherries,
each year, for the past three years, has
been left to fall to the ground, al.
| though ! offered IT as low as $500 per
! ton on the tree, no one could pick and
take 1t to the mill and make wages.
! il is about three and half miles
) direct to Mr.. Louisson's from my
house at the same altitude, but to get
there have to go now about seven
miles A cross-road would have four
miles each way. and open hundreds of
acres of good coffee land to a market,
that would add to the small farmers
benefit.
In 1896 bought lot Of 22.i0 acres
OF land from a Portuguese little high
er up than the government lot first TAX.
en- up, paying S35 per acre for the
same; built dwelling house upon II
and make II my home at present.; the
past three years IL has taken in little
more than enough to pay the taxes.
Although costing hundreds Of dollars
1t would only bring the price that cane
land sells for, $50 per acre, and moth
ing for any improvements.
!, In fact plantations are taking advan.
tage of hard times to acquire land
for mere song.
Honey Trial.
In 1899 we thought something could
be made in honey. we went 20 the
woods and cut wild bee trees, brough,
home the bees, built hives and started
in, we got s hives the first year and
with cutting other trees and increase
raised our stock TO 40 hives the coming
year. We had lots to learn and did
learn much, we solved the secret OF
bee keeping and soon had an apiary Of
$50 hives, but until this day we hav,
hot found way to sell II at any price
that would pay us even the wages
Jap would get on plantation. W.
I produced both comb and extracted
l honey, as white and clean as any on
could wish, all eat II with O relish |
Siven a section. We tried selling II
Iilo and Honolulu and they asked 70
a case 90 gallons) as sample, W
sent 1t, and to encourage the SINAI
farmer. the report we had from It wa
"a little too sweet for good coal ia
and little too black for good hone!
but they would give us sl00 per cas-
II of two 5.gallon tins laid down In Ht
q nolulu. We still have honey for sal
q and the hives all full and for the pas
two years all swarms have been let 8
q 10 the woods. as II did not pay to hiv
q them.
Il So much for a sweet industry, tha
q might. think. be made to pay sma
X profit. II things were different and a
H persons would live and let live"
Poultry Experiment.
Il Poultry was next tried and that sha
b ed the same fate, after the feed bi
= was paid for the annette of Messr